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Secret tongues, intertwine

You open your mouth 
And my breath comes out 
My heart spilled on your chest 
I know what happens next
Fingers intertwine 
I’ll let you blur the line 

We’ve synced our hand watches, our breathes,
Our time and upward motions
Our souls whisper and kiss 
Linguistics meet their stand in 
Looks and tells, a longing, dripping cheeks 
A hum, a nod, a wink to God 
Publicly known words replaced with privately-owned sounds 
So as not to water down 
What’s already been found 
‘For the message is foolishness to those who are perishing’
All valuable things are done in secret 
Secret tongues, intertwine
I’ll let you blur the line

We’re getting by, 
year by moment
Unblinded and defiant, I asked you to carve your name into my skin
I’m under the covers, inside your chest
Blood pumps and beats, 
Whispering vows breath-soft in morse code 
You’re always running a beat behind mine

Conventional Wisdom out the door

No right minded businessman,
Will cut funding and resources to parts of a their business,
That has proved profitable or is essential to the profitability ,
    of another part of their business,
So why do governments with more than one successful businessman,
With proven track records of running a successful business,
Almost always go against conventional wisdom for running a successful
    business,
And make cuts across the board without any due diligence regarding,
  which government department is making the best return on money,
Provided in the form of tax taken off profitable businesses.

No Permission Required

Memory is too honest a word for something
That keeps arriving without consent
It shows up in timing
Not thought
A pause where there shouldn’t be one
A second that refuses to move on
I don’t call it back
It just occurs 
Like a system running a process, I did not start
Nothing about it asks to be understood
It only proves it still runs
And I stop interfering with it
Because interference
Is where it learns my name again


Premium Member The Race for Hollow Gold

Is not the world running a rat race
After gold, deemed as the richest prize?
What does it ultimately fetch us,
Other than making our life a mess!

The glitter of gold makes men go daze.
Flaunting wealth has become their craze.
Easy money is modern man’s obsession.
It will end up in his steady transgression.

In time, power and prestige may grow,
But sad, man goes blind in their dazzling glow.
Fairness easily surrenders to corruption,
Leading to value’s wholesale evaporation.

Character gets lost in pleasure’s pursuit
And man, degenerates into a mere brute.
Honesty and integrity are looked down with hate.
Discipline and dedication become obsolete.

Gold may glitter and shine, wealth may stay,
But time will one day take them all away.
The truest wealth is not the one we avariciously heap,
But a loving heart and a peaceful mind that we keep.

In hollow gold as our priorities, we place,
It is our innate virtue and goodness, we replace.
When men’s hypocrisy as probity, they plaster
Is not our world running into a grave disaster?

Triple Me

Political campaigns all take a similar path.

They start out with such noble goals;
bring democracy back to the people,
take corruption out of the process.
Time to give all parties due process,
bring fairness back into the fold.

But then the realities set in.
Running a campaign costs money;
“Brother can you spare a twenty?”
Need to find hundreds of write-in votes
if the committee will allow them in.
Leadership already has their favorite picked.

Inevitable corruption seeps in,
power posturing and majority rule
to enforce ultimate control over it all.
Two stooges emerge, and one wins out.

With the financial influencers and horse-trading,
any actual good done for the public at large
seems accidental, ephemeral good fortune
for the actual benefit of all society.
Everything else is just “Me, me and me,”

Premium Member Absentee Doctor

My doctor likes to see the Earth
I get a nosebleed, she’s wading the surf
Maybe off Thailand, maybe Brazil
Who’s gonna save me when I get ill?

Yeah, there’s satellites, I can always text
But she’s out of town at the smallest pretext
Running a marathon, maybe in Rome
Everywhere is her home away from home

Maybe its that she sees all the frailties of man
Maybe that galvanizes her to move while she can.
I shouldn't grudge it, but I've just broken my toe
Kicking a wall when she mentioned "Idaho".

So I’ll drive like a saint, not drag race the streets
Not eat the wrong things, not trip on my feet
Not mouth off to strangers, not poke at a bear
Not flirt with disaster or agree to a dare.

I'll use Gemini or Grok or Chat G P T
Then I'll order from an offshore pharmacy
That might finish me off and I'll complain no more
Hope she feels sorry before heading to the Jersey shore.

(note: she really is a good doctor, I'm just having fun here)


Premium Member Barista

Barista 
An Italian coffee Bartender 
Making cold drinks and hot expresso’s 
With shots of anxiety 
With many flavors poured in your coffee 
In charge of running a coffee shop 
Always poetry with coffee machines 
A morning ritual 
Don’t forget about Cappuccino’s 
Caffe’ Lattes on the go 
Pouring art in my coffee cup 
Barista’s prepares coffee bean rosters 
With steam aromas arise fluently 
Every cup is beyond cultivating 
Beverages brewed to stay awake 
Buoyant rhymes with melodies floating in your mind 
Have is no other way 
Coffee is truly therapeutic 
Baristas are multitaskers and creative 
Millions drink coffee by the gallons 
So many flavors to choose from 
What is your favorite coffee shop 
Can’t live without it 
Awe coffee, two cups

half of the people on facebook are running a scam

half of the people on Facebook
are running a scam
the other half
are falling for it
and the rest
are watching cat videos
like monks chanting into the void.

everybody’s smiling—
teeth too white,
lives too perfect,
money falling from the sky
if you’ll just click here
and believe hard enough.

old friends message me
with the enthusiasm of used-car salesmen,
calling me “brother”
after thirty years of silence,
asking if I want freedom,
wealth,
or a miracle before Tuesday.

there’s a woman from high school
selling enlightenment for $19.99,
a man who never read a book
teaching success,
and a guru who can’t sit still
telling me how to find peace.

meanwhile
the real disasters
sit quietly in the corners—
rent due,
lungs hurting,
loneliness eating a sandwich alone
at midnight.

Facebook calls it connection.
I call it a bar
where everyone’s drunk
and lying about how good they’re doing.

still, I scroll.
because hope is a stubborn disease
and even a scam
looks warm
when the night is long
and the world keeps asking
for just one more click.

Hot beauty


Hot beauty 

Like a rattling dove 
Whirling cocooned in a flood 
Like thirst dripped
Onto the furnace 
Of hot galloping wax 
Into my tingling 
Expanding fibers 
On that balm-coated 
Trembling cloth of canvas 
In that moment when the flame
Flares up with a great heat
As a bomb exploding
Drop of wax is pounding
Sensuous broth is boiling 
I am covering you up
With beeswax
With the honeycomb
This glaze of love
Wrapping you like a shroud
A spoiled brat in a raging heather
 Prince on board 
With his bluish temper
With his depraved rampant
In Perverse abundance
Lid on the lid of lids
This ark of passions
Tavern decays
Delusional Grieving
Monastery of Struggling
Sine Diagram Cosine Graphs  
In contemptuous arrogance 
In the flight of excitement
Shackle stick me to the ground

The unsurpassable ratio 
The Unstoppable Quotient
Horizontal constant eight 
Let out a giggle,
In the delirium of 
Snickering laugh

The sand is pouring, 
The alarm  is beeping
Time is running a race, 
Can’t keep up with pace
My relentless robotic 
Endurance overtakes

Premium Member The Dam Beaver

Anybody Gunna believe her  

About the dam beaver  

Collecting sticks  

Acting like bricks  

Water contained  

Whose Gunna complain  

About the beaver  

Having workaholic fever  

Dedicated to the project  

You got it  

Watching the dam thing grow  

Just for the wind to blow  

Knocking everything down  

Making the dam beaver frown  

Scurrying back to dry ground  

To pick up sticks  

That will act like bricks  

Creating a dam  

That will stand  

Nature’s power  

Making the dam beaver tower  

Over everything  

Anointing dam beaver King  

Hail my friend  

When finished, building the structure to defend  

Someone should commend  

Check we will send  

Allowing the dam beaver to be rich  

Running a successful dam business niche  

Deed well done  

Thank you, you are welcome

Infestation

The rats are running a race,
Keeping their people in place,
Placing opposing forces in action,
Causing a big distraction,
As they watch their plan happen,
The opposite reaction,
Giving them the traction,
A sense of satisfaction,
Adding another faction,
Using inhumane interactions,
Throw in an insurrection,
Some misdirection,
A whole lot of deception,
The recipe for inception,
Once you let them in,
You have an infestation,
An invasion of your soul,
Giving them all the control,
While you thought poles mattered,
They splattered propaganda,
Proper pandemonium,
Created those in command,
Planned as something to fix them,
Directed by a mixed up system,
Affected by another symptom,
Racing around for a bit of income,
Becoming one of the victims,
Slave to a system of depravity,
Their rats in every capitol and city,
Hiding in every cavity,
Overrunning your way to be.

Love Spell



Pleasure enflame through my entire being
This man, entices my lips to breathe,
Every moment we are touching.
His spell, his gaze, “they have enraptured me.”
And all I want is to give him a never ending kiss
For I have never experienced real love like this
Plus whenever he looks into my brown eyes
I always feel like I’m sitting on top of the skies

He's glued to my mind
And I crave him all the time
This man constantly put a smile on my face
And makes my heart beat fast
Like I’m running a race
I’m convinced that he had cast
A strong love spell on me
For I’m not the way I used to be
However; I love the new me now
Though he may have cast a spell on me somehow.

Writers Block

I’ve never been a writer, but when I have the time.
I try to think up some ideas to write a random rhyme.
Sometimes it works and I think up something new.
Other times I just scratch my head, as I haven’t got a clue.

Now I’m staring at a blank screen, unable to think.
And my brains just like a pen, that's run out of ink.
Analogy's a great theme, I’ve not done that before
Already hit a brick wall, as I can't think of anymore.

Should I write about a dream, romance, or secret fears?
Looking for inspiration, but still with no ideas.
I try using my imagination, so I write down a few lines.
Then look for other words, to try and make them rhyme.

My plan was to create a poem, with poise and eloquence.
But everything I write down, just simply makes no sense.
So, to spark creativity I recall something from the past.
Ideas come and go, but the moment doesn't last.

I suppose my brain is scrambled and running a bit too slow.
I attempt to write something meaningful, but nothing seems to flow.
I guess writing poetry is not as easy as it looks.
So I admire all those poets, whose work is published in a book.

I’M RUNNING A GODDAMNED UNIVERSE CUT ME SOME SLACK!!!

I can’t imagine 
how painful it is to 
be God. 

Trying your hardest 
to make a beautiful painting, 
only to have the characters 
you created complain and 
mock the world around 
them. 

Why does God let bad things 
happen to good people? 

Pretty sure you’d walk 
away from the canvas too 
if it spat back and criticized 
you. 

But perhaps, 
in his silence,
he waits, 

hoping we’ll learn to 
appreciate the 
masterpiece. 

And after he 
suspects we’ve endured 
enough punishment, he’ll return 
to add an additional layer 
of paint. 

We call these added colors 
miracles, and they renew our 
dwindling faith.

Gafas

lows over my eyes 
trying kill what's inside 
just a different drive 
hi jacked the vibe 
trying to bug my line 
get sprayed with pesticide

you see them thuggin
I'm with the plug 
trippin on luggage 
why you fronting 
I see you trucking 
moving sluggish 
hop out the bucket 
it's all for nothing 
let's get this money 
stop acting funny 
we don't love them hos 

running a muck 
searching for love 
always kept it blunt 
running from love 
searching to re up 
always kept that heater 
always been players 
pushing p 
run the streets 
serving fiends 
bout a couple keys

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