So creeped out by my own ideas,
So I am so bad as I seemed, because
So and so said so, and
So and so sees it, and I'm
So scared to be what I'm scared of, what
So and so is said to be, what is
So so bad, so bad as it seems, she's
So creeped out said so and so, and
So scared to see it for so long, and
So and so said so, with
So and so and so and so, so
So so so so so so so.
So very much done with this.
Gold-lined pockets, silver spoons,
Promised futures wrapped in runes.
Gilded gates and marble halls,
A name that echoes through the walls.
Yet wealth is weight, a velvet chain,
Shackled smiles, a life in vain.
For what is gained if soul is sold,
If warmth is lost to hands so cold?
Not all that glitters warms the night,
Not all who shine are bathed in light.
When skies are puzzled clouds of pain
It’s easy to invite the rain
The pieces fit or so it seems
To block the sun and hide your dreams
When darkness overtakes the light
Though grasping it with all your might
It feels as if a stranger dwells
Who’s calling shots and casting spells
Yet even though illusions swirl
Like rainbows on a brand new pearl
I’ll not give in to be entranced
For my last dance has not been danced
There always is a bluer sky
There always is a truer eye
Where clouds are seen for what they are
Though here today, they’ll drift afar
Only a thousand years ago
there was a thousand years to go.
Tomorrow is an unreliable date,
a note pinned to a dead body.
If the less prejudiced mass of humanity
turns to starry-eyed true-believers
then unicorns may outnumber regular horse,
penguins learn to fly
and pigs fall from the sky.
The impossibly possible made manifest.
Nobody can say for certain.
Reality may at last stop quick-changing
in a dark closet at the end of the universe.
Maybe an alien traveling circus will arrive
and we will finally figure out
we were them -
clowns all along.
?To live without love is insane!
I cannot think of greater pain.
A heart full of love simply sings!
Without? A phone, that never rings
A desert where you always thirst.
Where each minute is next than the worst
But if in trueness deep love you are,
You are so blessed and without a scar.
Life is a wonderful adventure.
From which you are free of any censor!
It’s simply a divine intoxication.
And you and your lover, live in a divine nationl
9/23/2091
Flashing back to last Spring, 2020 ~ O, my!
We thought we'd all get COVID and then die
We lived our daily lives in utter fear
a cough or sneeze's drops just might adhere
to a surface we'd accidentally touch ~
We'd be put on a ventilator or such
So many confined in a hospiral all alone
Their only family contact, the phone...
A year later we survivors are nearly worry-free
Masks off, we frolic on land and by the sea
Let us be grateful for our lives and for our health
Beating hearts more precious than vast wealth
My pet duck went away to the farm
To live with all the other ducks
Why can’t we visit him; what's the harm?
To go, you must be old
Or so I was told
My wife is unhappy
What did I do
Nothing, my darling
It's not about you
But dear, you're so sad
It eats away at me
I like seeing you glad
It's how you should be
Oh, Freedom just died here
And that's why I came
If I'd have foreseen Joe Biden
I'd have stayed in Ukraine
Gosh dear, this perhaps sounds cliched:
'Cos things may look bleak today
But Biden won't always get his way
It won't be all black and white
There'll be shades of gray
Darling, you really don't get it
Ruin the USA is what socialism will do
Just wait 'til Comrades Biden and Harris
Start to tighten the screws
... Stone Cold Silence ...
What can I say, honey
You know better than me
Better pack your bags and emigrate
Democracy's too messy for you, I see
Insurmountable or so I thought
So I began to shut down
Eventually curling into a fetal position
Procrastination wiped out possibilities
Depression set in
I looked at it as a mountain without steps
There is no way, I thought
I will have to quit my job
I cannot do this!
The more I verified this thinking
The closer I got to full blown
Incapacitation
I could barely move now
I was worthless
not only as an employee but as a human being
So I left this job
to pursue a new one
things went well the first week or so
until I found a new mountain….
You brushed my cheeks
with your soft fingertips
and I reached nirvana.
I wish you knew;
if you only knew your power!
With one kiss upon my brow,
you vanished...
before I could open my eyes
moons ago, about an hour or so.
It's inexplicable this wicked spell
you've cast on me.
I can't seem to shake it!
You've left me wanting
so much more.
Was it all a dream
or indeed true?
I long to hold you close...
again.
Date written: 10/28/2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzBWSHIyaUs
Sing it loud and clear
and make it the laude voice I hear
bring me home to the hearth of my youth
where mom and dad always told the truth
sing me in behind a curtain of pure fantasy
song me through the chorus of a shasta daisy
air me out to the beat of your sweet drum
sing it out loud and sing it clear...
Sing it in your native tongue
help me climb Soprano, wrung by wrung
bring it in and hold me in, sweet cantor of old
nothing in our world of music is ever undersold
song me ahead mistake me not for dead
in this land of honey and gold , I got heart
or so I'm told...
Technology ascending
Traditional religion ending
Robots comprehending
Life's secrets upending
Black holes extending
Cyber wars impending
Electronic devices contending
Wizard-like gurus pretending
Media noise unrelenting
Massive armament-spending
Extremism transcending
Holocausts never ending
How much better now, our enlightened Life --
Man's Progress measured in Death, Polarization and Strife
1 cups of crabmeat
1 cup of pureed shrimp
2 cups of minced goeduck snouts
1 cup of minced catfish
4 cups of mushrooms (chopped fine)
2 tablespoons of cayenne
1/2 cup of lemon juice
6 T of chopped dill
3 tablespoons of tarragon
2 teaspoons of celery seeds
6 T garlic (crushed)
3/4 cups of olive oil
3/4 cups of flour
1 cup of minced onion
1/2 cup of yellow bell pepper
2 cups of heavy cream
2 cups of chicken stock
6 egg whites beaten (with peaks)
make a roux with flour olive oil, add onions, bell pepper, celery seeds, garlic and mushrooms,
when the roux becomes brown, remove from stove add 2 cups of chicken stock, allow to cool slightly, add heavy cream and sit aside. add crab, fish, snouts, and shrimps. Season with, lemon juice cayenne, tarragon , and dill.
add egg whites, fold into the fishy mixture. bake in buttered rami cans: serve with a vodka, lemon, buttery, dill hollandaise.
A year or so from now,
when you hear thunder in the sky,
pretend it is me talking to you.
Think of me, from time to time.
Remember me, remember me.
When a song plays that was
one of my favourites, sing along
with it for me. Sing loud and clear.
I'll be with you. I'll be with you.
Do not grieve for long. Instead,
play again those funny moments
when life was long and years
of sharing stretched ahead.
Hear the humour we shared,
and smile again at old jokes.
A year or so from now,
when you are looking at pictures,
see again how happy we were.
These are what matter, I think.
The joyful seconds that make
the mundane easy to bear.
Those scattered, silly
laughing things that stay
eternally present in the mind.
We are only hands that clap
in harmony for a limited time.
Touches of spaces that are
full of vigour, than are empty.
Hesitant to leave what we
know, knowing it must be so.
A year or so from now,
remember me. Remember me.
You're a mystery to me, a modicum of memory.
I have your straight nose; your big, clumsy feet;
Your dry sense of humour and stubborn streak -
Or so I've been told.
I know you loved history - dusty books left behind.
I've heard stories about you, but they can't define
Who you really were.
I remember snippets of your eulogy, given by my dad,
The son-in-law you didn't like but grew to love.
I wish you'd known me long enough
To love me too.
But maybe it's better this way, trying to figure you out
Like a game of Clue, which I've been told
I once played with you.
So I'll keep piecing you together
Like the puzzles you loved,
Because you truly are the most fascinating person
I've never known.
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