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Morning On the Mountain

Morning On The Mountain

Glowing cathedral spires of the gold mountain range
Rising with the sun above the reflective ice lake
Between deep green sequoias tops
Passed, and down below the pine needled path
Stretching on thin rust colored winding road to those still sleeping
This bundled feast that feeds the eyes and feelings
Greeting the morning explorers grasping
Waking, on the new dawned day
Yawning men with their warm breath turned instantly to mist
Lifting in a cloud of thick steam, as it passed their lips to speak
Frozen temperatures on their exposed encampment
Reminding them more cold is yet to come before they reach the summit
They were engineered to climb the mountain
It’s in their DNA
They climb it because it’s there
It is their living and their livelihood
The trees can only watch
And wish they could


Bridges

Eventually they all fail,
especially the ones made of blood and hope.

Despite the sustaining support, 
the perseverance,
eventually they all fly too far,
span downward, stretch beyond
the expectancy of nuts and bolts.

Then there is this:
there are bodies and other vehicles.
There are trains pulling ghosts,
the drowned and crushed
reflected in a puddle of sky. 

Eventually the infrastructure
of destruction 
leaps further than the steel,
it springs ahead of the flesh. 
The overpassing and over arching
find their roots elsewhere.

Then there is this:
bridges rise above the engineered;
the aeronautics of earth planted ideas.
Hope finds 
other ways to cross over the gaps
others have left.

Pillars Fall

Pillars Fall

Pillars fall between swift moving clouds collapsed
They were once white fluffy ghosts along the coast

Statues watch suspiciously at a distance
Recognize their engineered solidity secure

Their facility for beauty, at play inside the mist
As history deforms, goes on into the fog forewarned

Structures hold themselves together tenuously
Marbled and clean relaxed
They too fall between the cracks  

Pillars come apart for lack of care
Love barely holds them in a coupled hand

A formula somewhere in the distance 
Turns cylindrical objects into powder over time
To become the gray serene

Pillars hold themselves together
Follow swift clouded logic clear

In a crash they fall collapsed
Being Inanimate has detractors
Advantages unseen across the ages

A sound echoes from the past 
Disappears like laughter silenced
Or a pillow soft, objects lost
Pillars dissapear

Premium Member Pick Your Poison

MEAT-steroid cows with mucus. 
 
           CHICKEN-lame,frightened,grown in six weeks without beaks.
 
SEAFOOD-tainted and contaminated.        FOOD-sprayed,pesticides.genetically engineered seeds.

AIR-polluted,chem-trails.plenty of carbon monoxide.  WATER-poison algae,oil spiills

 WALKING-breathing is dangerous,no oxygen,no trees. TALKING-Speaking out can get you killed.

 MILK-Full of pus from over stimulated titties.    

                                                                                         
                                                                 RELIGION- separates and
creates fanatics.    

POLITICS- fasted way to die. Like Martin ,Malcolm and JFK ....It gets worse If you join; So pick
your poison. Or not!                                                                     
                                                 

STANDING- in buildings is life threatening too.Innocent lives of every hue. Every religion
and every race. Who's responsible for this early entrance into heaven or paradise? Follow
the money on that day...Who got paid for nine eleven?  And if you lived past that day, You
still have to choose your poison... So ..PICK YOUR POISON...Or not!

Reverse engineering a sureal Eden

Reverse Engineering a Surreal Eden.

To grow a mountain, - - - - - right!
In, an old jam jar, yeh right!  
Of clean soil, Soil! Isn’t that soiled?
Such a seed could be, soiled and would be exclusive;
Perhaps part time growing in window box?
May save the roof? No rain mind, just a tarry dim sun,
Breezed by a filthy wind ; alone!
in its eroded scraggy day, while
expanding, a different slice of the colour green.
Pushed skywards, it all looks the same!
What about Apples and Snakes?
and our engineered countryside,
of plastic and glass, filling allotments,
with mirrors for the gods! And soured bogs.
Eyes only open at jar breaking time
Its stop tap, but no tap to stop, too late,
And – the mountain? We shall keep it
Under the bed, so it can’t be seen.


The Benefits Of Introducing Nanotechnology Into The Human Body

I write not as a dreamer alone—
but as one who has peered
through the quiet galaxies
of the cell.

There—
where ribosomes turn
like patient mills,
and strands of code
coil and uncoil
with ancient precision—
we have begun
to send our smallest messengers.

Not soldiers of iron,
not crude intrusions,
but particles
measured in billionths of a meter—
engineered whispers
moving through the blood’s red rivers.

They arrive
knowing your language.

Programmed
to the grammar of your genes,
to the private dialect
of your cells—
a medicine written
for one body alone.

They do not wander.

They listen.

They find the misfolded protein,
the silent tumor beginning its theft,
the artery narrowing
like a road forgotten by the sun.

Then—
with mathematics gentler than surgery—
they repair,
unbind,
dissolve the error.

And when the work is finished,
they sleep.

Their code instructs silence—
no empire,
no conquest,
no lingering hand.

Only a correction
in the long manuscript
of the body.

Imagine it—
a future where illness
is met not with blunt storms of chemicals
but with quiet librarians
walking the corridors of flesh,
returning misplaced pages
to their rightful place.

This is the promise
hidden in the smallest scale:
that healing
may one day arrive
not with thunder—
but with a whisper
too small to see,
yet wise enough
to leave the body
whole.

California Fires Fueled By Das Don Trumpeting Hot Air

California Fires Fueled By Das Don Trumpeting Hot Air ©

Dante's Inferno chokes breathable air
fiery flames fuel
     state of emergency
     president did declare
despite his disclaimer global warming
     "FAKE," no matter glare
ring obvious indisputable proof, nonetheless,
     the commander in chief

     blatantly doth jeer
and doubles down ‘bad
     environmental laws’ mare
reed with water
     shortage explains conflagration,
     oh...,and while he takes
     a knee in prayer
(re: home companion fashion)

     Thee Oaf blithely vouchsafes
     courtesy, sans colorful swear
words plus (purportedly,
     unbeknownst to him
     marijuana laced powder milk biscuits
     giving him courage - er chutzpah
     as if he needed any) to veer
way off script of late spluttering, spouting,

     and even spewing outrageous claims
     that (YES) extraterrestrials rank as chief
     villainous figures as
     nonpareil arsonists this year.
This Lake Woe
     begone Wharton warrior
     no stranger to attribute blame,
where unidentified flying objects

     affected intergalactic collusion
(hare brained scheme hatched, 
     engineered, and brooded 
     while holed away in his 
     Trump Taj Mahal) from
     outer limits of
     twilight zone) fair game,
not averse to accuse
 
     Norwegian bachelor farmers
     falsely, and even
     Grimm folklore characters,
     not outrageous to name,
he will continue to repeat falsehoods,
     and later subsequently quote
    himself without shame!

Gamut of History Spans Everyday Life

Analogous, how said month name
     September under went
ramifications throughout millennium
     steeped in blood thirsty antiquity,
     awash with torment,
where most twenty
     first century mortals
     oblivious to such lawlessness

     wretched ultra-violent revilement
existentially going about their
     daily and weekly business
attuned to requisite
     employment as punishment
particularly if role of stoop laborer
     earnings them niggardly pay
     for meager nourishment,

there would be negligible
     leisure time leant
to mull, ponder or scrutinize
     such esoteric rubric
     as preponderance of
     ancient civilizations set precedence
     contributing to present
     without passing judgement

if in fact possessing
     aggressive curiosity hellbent
     interest and/or acutely fervent
     trenchant awareness linkedin
     with what human engineered,
     sans preceding millennial development
     events came about
     to bring the here

     and now space/
     time continuum habiliment,
where a sniveling, groveling, and
     conniving foo fighting beastie boy,
     would be loathe to believe,
nor not in the least
     interested - gives a rats a$$
what farcical betterment prevails during

     this current year
two thousand eighteen, versus where
drama evidenced by
     nothing "FAKE," nor unclear
substantial archeological recorded
     treasure trove evinced severe
of prior momentous human quaere
orgiastic epics Bacchanalian

     (distilled from ancient Egypt,
     classical Greece, enlightened Rome
     peoples played primitive organs 
     (viz, sax and violins) out across
     the then world wide web
     wrought permanent pressed

     customs within part
     ridge didst app pear,
in a tree, reverberated 
     millenniums later, and also asper
     among named twelve months,
particularly when Ides of March near
plus seven days of week.

Premium Member Assimilated

Assimilated	
We humans have engineered a society where nobody is allowed to be different
And you are compelled, without knowing why, to behave similarly to everyone else
Everyone’s life has been meticulously planned out and willingly accepted without question
Nobody has bothered to question why they are doing this
As they find peace in knowing their life has been planned for them
But I saw the hidden horror awaiting me with that lifestyle
And so I chose to be different and carve out a new path
At first, it was barely noticeable to the masses
Nobody bothers questioning a child about their actions
And as I grew older, my differences became bolder
That is when society drew its eyes to me
They attempted to dispose of me quietly at first
Punishing me with a few scars that weren’t visible
And a reminder that I need to stay on my intended path
I complied at first, but then I ventured out again
That is when they attempted to turn the public against me
Firstly, it was my family that expressed disappointment
Telling me I was an embarrassment to them
Just quietly obey, and they might just love me again
But I didn’t give a damn, so I continued on my path
That is when they decided that was enough
They feared that this would spark a fire they couldn’t put out
So they tried to dispose of me permanently, calling them accidents
 But I stood bravely until the end of my new path
There was a blinding light awaiting me
And as I stood there basking in the light
I found happiness for once in my life
Then everything became dark

Imagination

Imagine ! Engineering a Surreal Eden.
To grow a mountain, imagination right?
In, an old jam jar, yeh right!  

Of clean soil, Soil! Isn’t that soiled?
Such a seed could be, soiled and would be exclusive;
Perhaps part time growing in window box?

May save the roof? No rain mind, 
just a tarry dim sun.
Breezed by a filthy wind ; alone!

In its eroded scraggy day, while
expanding, a different slice of the colour green.
Pushed skywards, it all looks the same!

What about Apples and Snakes?
and our engineered countryside,
of plastic and glass, filling allotments.

With mirrors for the gods! And soured bogs.
Eyes only open at jar breaking time
And – the mountain? We shall keep it!

Under the bed, so it can’t be seen.
.
Form: Imagism

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