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Introspection: A Lifelong Vice And A Lifelong Friend

I follow the trail of blood,
milk, and honey,
to where we’re all going
from where we once came.

The Buddha said to embrace suffering
and feel your feelings fully,
but in my short time
I’ve uncovered that men
often mean the opposite
of what they meant.

So I’ve pledged
to live a life of duality,
in hopes to askew you
from thinking
you know
what I know I know.

The Christian God said
to bear one another’s burdens fully.
Well, if man made his purpose
levity to man,
the earth would be utopic,
and there would be
no more burdens
left for anyone to bear.

So I’ve pledged
to bear the weight of myself
wholly and alone,
for only individually
can we return
to Eden again.

The Muslim God said
not to trust anyone
except Himself
and the Prophet Muhammad,
and surely one man
can’t be the only one right
for the sum of all men.

So I’ve pledged
to disobey
and incorporate a piece
of everyone’s theology
into my way of 
being.

Philip, man of men, said
man hands misery to man.
Well, that’s only true
if you don’t change
or try.

So I’ve pledged
to forgive
myself,
me and I,
and you,
only in the few times
I’m right.

I’ve been to temples,
I’ve been to shrines,
I’ve been to chapels,
I’ve been to forests,
and I’ve sat alone
on park benches
listening to junipers sing.

And here’s what
I’ve come to believe:

We’re all talking
about the same person,
and he loves
both you and I
equally.


Premium Member Rainforest Anthology

from three miles away
the unmistakable sounds~
of howlers chorus  

a slithering snake. 
crushing prey without mercy~
green anaconda  

small eyed black caiman
twenty foot alligator  ~
watching and waiting 

waiting in the trees  
unsuspecting deer walks by~
a jaguar strikes  

through overlapping branches
laser beams of sunlight pierce ~
the dense canopy   

worlds largest rodent
like a giant guinea pig~
capybara dives  

painful insect sting
as painful as a gunshot~
the bullet ants bite  

rainforest rivers  
home to pods of pink mammals~
fresh water dolphins  

jesus christ lizards 
walking across the water~
miracles happen  

hanging upside down 
eating green vegetation~
slow moving sloths  

native indians  
rub poison on arrow tips~
from the green dart frog

a very short tail  
long shaggy coat and red face~
bald vakari swings 

face of a lion 
now an endangered species~
lion tamarin 

pygmy tribes food source
monkeys, pigs and antelope~
hunting to survive



Written 6th October 2018
Form: Haiku

Foreign Hitherto

Pushing cascades crest bastion, stomach lost
    Largesse spread wafts orange blossom bridal
    Bestows clouds let go to marshmallow moss
    Fearless flight crinoline crash vertical


    In gospel gothic deep chasm, drunk mink swims
    Stirring fate, bleeding tea leaves bewilder
    Leather gil quiver, loaded to the brim
    Goddess mink Milda, silk coat cylinder


    Poison spore auburn myrrh lassoo arrows
    Immune audine preened, unwitting Otto
    Seduced by sadist, dart sought embargo
    Incapacitated poderoso


    Discharged firearm, struck futile, fratenised
    Love liege embalms gun powder, satisfied




            Ninth February 
              Hijacked by 
             Milda Audine
Form: Sonnet

Idanre's Ancient Charm

I venture forth, an explorer true,
Seeking knowledge, with heart anew.
Idanre's hills, a treasure to behold,
Ancient secrets, yet to be unfold.

The people, industrious, with hearts of gold,
Welcomed me, with stories untold.
Their cocoa farms, a lush, green sight,
I harvested with them, under the sun's warm light.

Their water, a natural blessing, pure and fine,
Quenched my thirst, and revived my mind.
A healing spring, with powers to restore,
A gift from God, forever in store.

Idanre's hills, a tourist's delight,
A haven for nature, in all its might.
Longevity and prosperity, God's blessings true,
Reflect in the people, with hearts anew.

Their men and women, handsome, beautiful, and strong,
Beholders of beauty, with hearts that belong.
Producers, problem solvers, with a spirit so bright,
United in ceremony, with love and delight.
Form: Ballad

Premium Member Fresh Oil

 Musing through its morning haze, the jungle mountain begs for my infatuation. A nearby dog fails to resume its circular rhetoric and something closes the eye. Silence descends like fresh oil, drizzling through my rebellious long hair and down across my zippered lips. My kingdom can go to hell. Behind the closed another opens as the child hears the jungle morning shift talking to Aioue about today’s purity. A minimalist’s symphony. In suspended moments, I am the mountain. I don’t need Jesus. I am Jesus. Neither son nor father, husband or mystic. I am. Silence drips down like fresh oil. Virgin nectar. One dangling drop at the end of my nose, mightily pausing the unsilent inevitable. 

A ticking clock or a buggered marriage. Another dog mounts its bully pulpit. Cigarette smoke from the contractors next door gang rape the virgin jungle jasmine. The party is over. 
Was it besmirchment or carnal knowledge?

Innocence is lost
Or reality is found
I cannot say which
Form: Haibun


Premium Member Monsoon

Rain, blessing away the past
Rushing beads, a gentle song
Laughing at skies, overcast

Almost a prayer, spoken
Lips who have prayed all along
Whispers to a heart, broken

Stirring the spirit, in waves
Clouds floating by, is it wrong?
Flowing over the lost graves

Winds caress the trees, blowing
Leaves swaying, so brave and strong
Night kisses streams who’re flowing

Echoes on edge of starlight
Drizzling showers who belong
Drifting on the still of night

Jewels like light, hearts who know
Heaven has healed by birdsong
Timeless notes of joy, so slow

Erasing the host of dust
Fallen on those so headstrong
This rainfall blesses the just

Silent nights beneath sprinkles
Gentle tears, faith to prolong
As souls feel high, eye twinkles

With music from the rain’s tune
Singing praise all the daylong
Not so dire as a monsoon
Form: Tercet

It beats

1. It's been years, months, weeks have gone by.

    I've grown so much I can barely recognize my reflection. No lie.

    Each day more, I've seen you star in less of my dreams and it made me glad.

    I wrote a poem or two about the feeling of finally letting go of the best of me—you. My bad.

    2. Mom drew the curtains today, I need some vitamin D.

    She shut them back when she walked out, watching you ski.

    My heart,

    it beats,

    When you're far and stops when you're near.

    3. I thought I would have forgotten about your laugh, silly and cute.

    Your eyes were ordinary but canvas worthy. Bullets of memories it shoots.

    Your hands were soft as daisies, pretty as lilies. You'd stare at me as if I were a movie. Oh my.

    Waves through my hair and entangle with mine under the moonlit sky.

    4. I tried hard not to sound cheesy when I say you are my loophole, a bad habit,

    A complete *****,

    Force of nature, like the earth round its orbit,

    Three hundred sixty-five days a year.

    5. On a cloudy fall sky, I sat down in our favorite trees, penning down my thoughts.

    Ink dries ahead of every word. Would you think I were cool if you saw me now?

    Like a green leaf in a rainforest, a canvas stuck in a gallery, did I run out of slots?

    Or am I like the river we bathe in when we were young, long gone and replaced. Do I still have a shot?

    6. With you?

    All through?

    7. If not, let me go. I've got other dramas to star in. I won't be a second lead to none.

    Can I

    Go away, leave me alone in the cold dark forest, barefooted while she warms your sheets.

    Hold me, let go, shunned.

    8. Is she your forever?

    Your seahorse?

    Dancing to your favorite tune?

    When I only need the source?

    9. Your heart,

    It beats,

    Thump, thump, thump.

    It's all for me, she feels.

    10. About the poems I lied

    Over a hundred, for each I cried

    Thump thump thump

    It beats

    For you

Premium Member The Walk

Walking becoming overcoming.
Orion becomes Jesus walking on water.
Trek trudge and stumble, taking it in stride.
Bearing a cross of torment and torture.
Struggling slogging shepherding,
slaving in blood mixed tears. 

Walking through light and shadow.
Sleep meandering, dreams seamlessly
mingle with stumbling lumbering,
slumbering shamble, ambling ramble.
Roving roaming range, radius reached,
realms always remembered.   

Walking the footpath through rainforest.
Sizzling amour fou ardor, fevered fervor.
Lascivious among the leaves,
captive to carnality. 
Fleshly forbidden found only 
in the taboo soil of impulses.

Walking in the aurora of first light.
Sprinting agape beneath spectral wavy prismatic sky.
Darting dashing driving toward a new day.
Racing rushing for radiant rays wrapping the horizon.
Igniting the dark, blazing the trail in a neonate morning,
advancing the awaiting adventure.

Walking with friends and lovers.
Parading promenading propelled plantigrade.
Globetrotting every continent, every consideration,
every awareness and attentiveness. 
The common blanket sweeping overall.
Let the celebration of being begin.

New Earth Light

Violet Flame of Transmutation burn
             burnish sacral until Holy White
thaw caw-caw ______      S C R E A M 
                                  black crows at door
resist no more day, night ~ clear  S I G H T
                                       gawking, LAUGHING 

Asperges, Domine ! pyramids resound 
                  Asperges, Domine !  ~ drops 
                               s.p.r.i.n.k.l.e.  dangling, puddling _________calm pond resulting 
Melchedzedek hails grail no frailty rebounds 
purple priestesses hold light in sight no fear DARE daring challenging coming coming came

strike and dissolve FELT ETERNITY 
C.O.N.Q.U.E.R.E.D  no clinging 
                           chanting mantra with lanterns 
phœnix RISE
                      RISING
                                   R I S E N 
                           from grey ashes in tantrum
burning earning firing lightning LIGHT

dark serpents to NewEarth   f l a s h I NG
cry sobbing on hob hot tears so dear 
          brain raining a forest, a rainforest of rainbows reflecting, refracting  REMINDING
remembering  WHO I AM I AM YOU
sow luminal seeds, branding spring fling 
         felicitous fountains bringing singing 
                  SINGING 
sigh a high perting hurting destruction for
Recognition softly

dance spirit floor,  hugging Self’s delight ! 
FEEL   the       D*E*A*L*
                   a moist flowery deal to peal ___~~

The Emerald City

The Emerald City

Tales of long ago, many a tall story told
When the people spoke so vibrantly bold
Whispers of treasures of emeralds and gold
Hidden away, lost, a kings ransom to behold

Far away, somewhere lost in a dense jungle land
Guarded by a lost, ghostly, savage warrior band
Prepared for a millennium to defend, fight and stand
Silent swift death comes from ancient weapons in hand

Pathway to riches, a treacherous one
For all the emeralds and gold to be won
Will be the spoils to some fortune son 
Perhaps a kings ransom, share for none

Countless perils awaits for any bold, foolhardy man
Many fallen lost souls of some obscure absent clan
In all the fickle lost schemes of many a forfeited plan
For there will never be a road to riches for any man

Long ago, daring  tales of a lost Emerald City, so I’m told 
Speaking of the riches to this very day, treasures so bold
To the gullible, still being sold by the alluring lies of lost gold
Somewhere lost forevermore, in the desires for all to behold

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