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Understanding Why

I somehow keep forgetting
To adjust things for my age,
For things I once did easily
Don’t, at this current stage,

Let me bounce back quite as fast
So that I still feel the effects
Way beyond the time I did them,
Longer than what one expects.

Walking several extra miles,
Which, when walking, felt okay,
Has me totally exhausted,
Though it was the other day.

Sleeping less than what my body
Would prefer has its results,
Something that would never happen
To most younger-type adults.

Eating what I am not used to,
‘Specially if the food is rich,
Or an extra drink at dinner,
Might produce a little glitch.

Many older people fight this,
Since it’s easy to deny
That they need to take things slower;
Now I’m understanding why.

Aeoniums

The aeoniums, after much care, still do not grow,
His plight is of that, oh, how he cares for the flowers,
Though I believe he does not know.

His care for every and all, 
Will result in his fall,
To the void, the pit, where only regret thrives,
Where the walls that prevent us from understanding each other shall grow tall.

If I was to regret a thing I had done, 
It would be the crushing of those syringas,
So that I may live, unchained by the pressure of others, 
So that I could breathe freely from my lungs,
I understand, it was necessary, so I mustn't feel remorse. 

But his aeoniums, they still remain, 
He preserves them, in the hopes that they will bloom once more, 
Though in my mind, it is clear.
They have lived far too long to bloom a second time,
If he does not let go soon, he will miss his own life.

Premium Member Birth Lottery

Ism isn't right, it's spite which stems from deep emotion
Welling up within the soul when we confront the notion
That someone somewhere is receiving what we think is ours
Bestowed on us from somewhere we think's written in the stars


Premium Member Pedestrian Stardust

We can build an orrery
Yet turn the sky into a junkyard

We're abecedarian, quirky contrarian
Stare decisis from cosmic ovarian

Subaltern, suborbital
Small steps on the heavenly stairway

Pedestrian stardust walking around
Tariffing penguins to tear up the ground

But the stairway is spiral
And it's spiraling down

No escape from the gravity
Found all around

Eyes searching the cosmos
For myopic bliss

In a fallacy galaxy
Far from star-kissed

We're worst when we're first
At least in our mind

Quoting chapter and verse
From each tract that we find

On the ground underneath us
That shifts with each step

Tract's gotten infected 
Yet onward we schlep

Each bearing the burden
Of truth stumbled across

When we can patch the thatch
On the roof that we've lost

In that storm of ideas
That threatened the shelter

We've built for ourselves
Unstable ideas full on the shelves

We've forgotten to look 
For the beauty inside

While we're gathering dust 
From under our feet

Instead of uncovering
What's come from above

While planting our hopes
In the promise of love

Premium Member Upon Watching A Leaf Fall From The Tree

Season of death
Told to fear 
Before bitter cold 
Making everyone scream 
For some warmth 
And loving touch 
Stay in touch 
After the death 
With some warmth
And no fear 
Morbid many scream 
Awaiting the cold 
Decide embrace cold  
With forceful touch  
Hear the scream 
Proclaiming the death 
Eyes express fear 
Needing some warmth 
Getting the warmth 
Fighting the cold 
And the fear 
With caring touch 
Defeating ugly death 
That creates a scream

Why a scream?
All filled warmth 
Body shell death 
Purple silver cold 
Ghosts need touch 
Soothe the Fear
Dispense the fear 
Memories laughing scream 
Everyone seems touch
Words igniting warmth 
Melting the cold 
Celebrating the death  
Conquering fear death 
Instead scream warmth 
When touch cold

Life

Life

How flexible you are.
Today you are fierce,
tomorrow you are gentle.
One moment, innocent as the morning dawn;
the next, a mystery wrapped in silence.

We chase your meaning,
longing to understand your ways,
yet you flow like a river
endless in its journey,
winding through valleys,
climbing rugged hills,
tumbling down steep cliffs,
then resting in tranquil waters.

Oh, Life,
you are a tapestry of wonder,
forever changing,
forever teaching,
forever beyond our grasp.


Premium Member (In Some Strange Magic is) A Poets Value.

Poets, make spells, 
And good poets, make them well 
Enough, that you might 
Come, to understand 
Your Self 
Better than 
You, could ever tell.

Premium Member Mindfulness

M indfulness  soothes ~~ mind and soul
I t sets people free from trapped emotions 
N eed for us all to practise it
D o a journal, be thankful everyday ~ for something
F or it is a road map to freedom ~  
U  nderstanding , to see through new eyes
L earning to tolerate the emotions we feel
N eed to alter our lives ~ altering attidudes 
E ndevouring  to live in the moment 
S eeing to hold infinity in the palm of your hand
S oaring ~ to new heights in life

Premium Member I Lost My Voice

I lost my voice, it wasn't my choice 
Friends said, "I'll keep an eye out."
Like it's their favorite joke 
And I laughed right along with 'em
But it made me think, just for a moment 
This must be what it's like 
To be born without one 
What must it be like 
To be born without one 

Without a voice, in a noisy world 
Where the quiet ones are just ignored
And the loudest ones get all the glory 
What must it be like to have no voice 
In this world 

I have a friend who teaches ASL
To people who couldn't hear it 
If a freight train sat down right beside them
And I thought, "How lonely it must feel 
To never hear the joke 
'Specially when it's on you 

My voice'll come back in a day or two 
I'll miss it and sharing my point of view 
But my friends have heard it 
They're happy for the break
And when it's back 
I should be a little more eager 
To share the voice I have 
With someone who has none 
To raise the voice I have 
For someone who doesn't sound like me 
Maybe I could lend an ear, to one whose greatest fear
Is being left out of the conversation 
Missing sorrow and elation 
Of inclusion and belonging
Someone who's been longing
To belong

Premium Member Understanding zebra stripes

is impossible!

I can’t count stripes
when the zebras won’t hold still!

The middle finger of God
is mocking me!

If you run away,
I can’t work
for National Geographic
or learn a damn thing
in this life
of purified conscience, 
filtered concepts, 
and dirty 
magazines

Premium Member Unholy Hell

Unholy Hell

There is an incredible emptiness
that will not settle,
a holy loneliness blocking my way.
They tell me not to think so much,
not to worry,
but the heavy quiet of failure drowns out that vow.

Inside these walls, there is no sovereignty.
Just hands, reaching—
everyone wanting a piece of me.
Only music remains a cure,
a quiet place to go to ease the road,
to carry this bitter load.

I was a proud soul once.
Now, I am stripped to the nerve.
Left entirely alone to survive their quiet contempt.
I dream at night, and the nightmares come to call,
and I wake up to the morning sun
already shattered before the day even begins.

More work is what I get.
No time away to sift through the wreckage,
to find what is left of me.
Just the endless expectation of another’s payday.

Deep in my soul,
my mind cries out for reprieve
that my battered, bloody body will never get.
The void is deep.
The pain is real.
The days gone by are misery.

Tough as nails they reference me.
Deep inside only history.

insight, and Understanding

She Loves The Glisando Rubato Sound
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El *glissando rubato* consiste
 en deslizarse continuamente
 entre notas (*glissando*) 
mientras se toca con 
un tempo flexible y expresivo (*rubato*)

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          Grito Verse
"whats your name
what's your number 
are you  single too
I see you listening to my
every word 
I am listening to your's too"
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       'Grito Afinar'
En lugar de deslizarse 
a una velocidad
 constante,
 el intérprete acelera 
y desacelera el 
deslizamiento para añadir
 tensión emocional
 y un matiz humano
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Jarana Cumbia
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    Frottoir and Grito
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"What's your name
what's your number
Can I call an talk
with you
we can be freinds
we can be lovers
Darling what do you
wanna do"
(Grito start's again)
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Premium Member Disconnected Teachings

Those who would rid our schools curriculum 
Of Kipling n' Tennyson, 
Are damned and stupid thieves 
Robbing theirselves and their charges 
Of, the poetry and history, that 
History does contain. 

And with it goes, the wisdom of ages 
Beyond reason, 
Undreamt of, in a present devoid 
Of, 
Curiosity and understanding.

Premium Member That’s Where I Will Be

“Mom, why do you always call it
a time machine?"

Thank you, 'Creepshow'

Will you be there?

"With one flip of a switch,
I always will be"

Will you?

I don't know poetry
or the running
of time
anymore
than tomorrow,
yesterday, or today

My imagination
pulls the comic book to life
when l need it most

Then all the goosebumps
go away

I stop hiding
in the daffodils
and learn to face
the gargoyles
of my own self-directed life,
of my own ‘Creepshow’

Exhale

EXHALE

There is no end to my exhale;
flowering emptiness filling me, infinitely.

Subsurface tides of me rush recede and 
waters winds in beautiful tandems leap.

With in-breath I am remembering my birth,
with out-breath I my dying.

When I am silent to the very bone,
beyond myself, my edges blur and free

what choruses now, what string, what flute notes drum 
who is it who sings to and through me?

When life and love breathed exactly into this world,
and I became here, was someone beside me then?

What did my face look like 
before I was conceived?

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