Lady Liberty Looks On
The varieties of liberty In the Roman and German tradition With braided hair A landmark for civilization. The general consensus A new definition of freedom Varieties of thought and expression Leading to a novel breed of people. Timely insight Into these Americans The monolith looked on As they pulled together. The vital signs stronger than ever Uncomplicated beauty In the knowledge That we know it is not a perfect system.
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1965 Rock Is Back
1965 Rock Is Back For what it's worth Is for you to decide A somewhat primordial urge Dictated by attitude and particular sounds. It's no wonder You speculate why We want to re-visit 1965 Never out of reach and never out-of- mind. The big chance To win one for the good guys The sounds of Buffalo to Springfield Coming soon to your hometown. An over-driven urgent style With highlights and lowlifes Always some burnouts around The typical hanging -on crowd. Four of the three minutes sounds Coming out of the garage Spill out what you have to say And to other things move on. The time is ready and Society is so red and ripe Three minute messages with A couple of bars and bridge to cross tonight.
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A Glimpse Of Bailey
Within seconds It just whizzed away I anticipated The fascination To glow To spark To flame To blaze Too robust For my imagination Flirting with the jagged edge of craters As it flew by the horizon
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A Mother's Love
My baby is lying Still and asleep Bright be the center Of your beautiful soul. I will give to you The love and care you seek Oh Lord, my gratitude Is funneled up to you in heaven. A child will always speak the truth And I patiently await The first words that you will speak How pleasing it is to love you.
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A Sacramental Satire
Evil spirits roaming Throughout the world seeking With reckless abandonment The ruin of financial planners. Some defense in battle needed Like the days of crusade ancient Protection against the snares and malice Emanating from the demon Devil himself. Tales of purgatory mere conjecture Tell me which road to limbo? Relics of the corporate saints and martyrs Holy shrines and material indulgences. Baptism the sacred rite of efficacy Sacred plan of immersion Is it better than mere aspersion? Tell it to me straight. An extinguished torch Of enlightened financial planning Money continues to be sacred Or surely it has become profane. Will away the earthly estate Surely your ticket straight to heaven A remunerative benediction Worthy of a Wall Street saint.
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A Sense Of Self
The resplendent out branch Of intense intrapersonal discourse The ability to reach synthesis The harmony of intellectual fusion. The deepest true self Exposed to truth beyond conjecture Mystery and wonder At the source of universal outflow. Enjoyment , harmony and laughter The latter an indication of contentment Not sadness Veganistic approaches to the sublime. A fresh and clean aroma Of genuinely achieved internal beauty The apple Is never far from the tree.
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A Working Contract
The capstone of a mature relationship Requires a proprietary mix of truth and honesty Our relationship espouses both- A secret blend of genuine love. You entered the contractual arena As a unique hybrid of Amazon and Venus Strong and seemingly emotionally invincible While offering unconditional love. I entered the bond As firm and reliable as the sun god Helios Secure enough to offer warmth and radiant love- While learning to harness the team of joint obsession and possession
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Adventurers
Existence in snow and ice Rule of the midnight sun The source of magical stones Summer's light and the dark days of winter. The sun and sea of Njord Displaying magnificant patterns Of Icelandic motion and color Naked worshipers dancing in the morning dew. The Aesir and the Vanir Asatru return to faith Last to Christian convert First to return to pagan roots. Light and dark elves Giants and trolls Tales of fire giants And the cowards and traitors in Hel. The hammer in the hands Drekar restless journeys Excellent and fearless fighters The Gaedhil-Gall and the frozen sea of Thule. Sailing and runic songs Within sight of shore and written by the skald Proof in the planking Voyages westward through the door to summer. International traders From Nantes to Lisbon The Middleton Cross Witness to the horde. Round Towers of Norfolk Reminders of cultural absorptions Scalloped capitals and style of moulding Reminders of Norman generations.
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Animal Antics
I saw one there It was sitting in my lawn chair A large black bear Giving me a steady stare. He just started to proceed He was eating all my birdseed I may add at full speed He showed no shame at the misdeed. When he finished he gave me a wave These bears certainly can misbehave The mischief he did I forgave A pleasant memory in my mind was engraved. He got up and ran away It certainly was for him a feast day In an unusual and amusing way It was for me a spiritual bouquet I have see him again no more Since the day I was his prisoner of war However, I still continue to look for The amusing bruin that visited at my door.
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Animal Husbandry
Inventive and creative minds A state of alert awareness A personal sense That other animals share it. A higher state of perfection Do other species sometimes offer Human characteristic fears Of this disturbing tenet. Slayers, skeptics and proponents Anthropomorphic gestures Animalistic sense of humor With concurrent obedience to rules of order. Introspective examination Of the rights of animals Understanding on the grand scale That Janus turns the wheel.
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Articulation
I'm against all authority Freedom an ever-eternal glory A socially grand distortion Well within the thickets. How especially contagious A tale of mind expansion Carefree and care worn Let me take you there. A case of configuration control Boring right into your immortal soul Internal articulation and transition For a glorious mission statement.
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Artificial Logic
Automated reasoning Promote dialogue between robots A perfectly logically coordinated Effort and common goal. An automated intelligence No need for emotion A perfectly new tradition Diverse cooperative efforts. Possible cooperative efforts Blending equally minded machinations Expert computational logic Conquer the world together.
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Audio Hallucinatory Disclosures
I hear your familiar singing On the left side of my clouded mind Pushing the right buttons as usually felt On the hidden side of my psychic moon. Shine on down and take up smiling So it is they so often told me In another place, another time The best things still were found fancy free. Cheer up now and smile on down It's some kind of compulsive disorder Unrealistic, irrational fears Blended into excitatory disclosures Your vocal patterns still half right Still unevenly distributed in my peripheral regions Rewarding golden audio awards In outdated and mutated sensory receptors.
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Ball Of Fire
A great mystery of mankind Strange ball of fire An intellect to call its own It surely seems to me. Open defiance To the will of Mother Nature Unearthly ball of vision Venturing to where it should be. Leaving the clouds To contact the ground Wide range of coloration and size Unusual range in flammability. Repugnant smell Of fire and brimstone Perhaps the place of origination Referred to as hell.
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Broken Truth
Broken promises Disabled truth A time to change direction Unto delivery highway. Power crafted from honesty The evolvement toward the absolute Constant human effort Obstruction less truth. A taintless world Accuracy synonymous with truth The strength of simple actions. A welcome relief. Let commitment Touch all of us As the pall-bearers of lies And rollback empty promise production.
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Cain And Abel
They are truly brethren Albeit with substantial differences Throughout recorded history Difficulties in communication. Political and religious implications Financial aspects of social turmoil If a peace maker comes forward He will swiftly be eliminated from the scene. Elevation of the people A land with much to share Common goals and working together Yes, please give peace a chance. Anger is a form of envy Bifurcation of emotions Retrace the ancient steps traveled While wearing the other man's shoes. Illness not so advanced That surgery must be scheduled A balanced plan of exercise and diet Can dissolve the two types of pain.
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Change
An addiction to learning Developed daily by imitation Opens the door to empathy And the capacity to love. The power of consciousness Allowing the option of self-renewal Extension of the senses in turn Sharpens the mind. The goal of positive action Coupled to implementation Creates positive self-expression And to the inevitable social evolution
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Chill Out
Frozen leaves lay outside the window It is the winter of our discontent The grey skies resemble my life Pallid and drained of life. I'm drifting aside, drifting away A destination without a purpose A dark and cold viewing room Love is now presently deceased. At the window A north wind chill Brings me back to reality A period of isolation spent with you.
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Claude's Super Circus
It was yesterday morning's circus The next best thing comes to town Bring the clowns to the audience In a way totally unanticipated and unforeseen. Baton twirling precedence Book the cyclists and jugglers Exotic animal transition Bring them forever on today. With the broken down barker Bring the tent poles slowly down Move on to the next situation And the ringmaster moves on to the stars.
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Color Perception
A personal point of view On matters of vision big and small Colors granted to the attuned Sky blue and what is below it. The birth of our insight The colors of compliment Blue from black The reddened empowerment of exciting vision. Both gifted terrestrial and heavenly populations Both Lovers of light and fire Color sensations far beyond The primitive condition of black and white. Exciting vision of spiritual perception Coming in the night Color sensation gifted As a function of anticipated moral impact.
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Continuous Traditions
Understanding the act Now begins with the theory Theory is tantamount To understanding the poetic impact. The poetry's place Is now behind the critic Enter the arena And begin entertaining the latter. The artificial boundaries Destroy the creative drive poetic Understanding and explication Now beyond the ordinary mortal. Modern contemporary culture Totally ignorant of the problem Historical continuity shattered The critic becomes the master.
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Cosmic Consciousness
It was closer To the darker side of night I sat straight up And held both hands to the heavenly light. I'll tell you What you want to hear Evidence Of the Creator's intervention. The transformation So sudden and abrupt The face of Moses off the mount Ashen and transfigured. Sensitivity toward others Increased understanding of animals Social wants, needs and fears Clearly understood by me. Rapid introspective examination Self-review before my eyes The understanding That all can experience this vision.
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Cost Of Freedom
Problems always start As persons all should now know When doorways are open. Freedom and ideas The rights of man also here You know what I mean? Liberty never free Always a ticket to buy Where is the window?
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Courage To Come Out
Face the poet's demands My taciturn friend Talented people such as you Cannot remain silent and amiss. In the midst Of profound cultural and societal change You cannot remain aloof in your laboratory Come outside and meet your fellow man. Arrogance versus shyness It is easy for a poet to misread Use your heart and mind as cornerstone For building society's aspirations and fondest dreams.
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Cramped Highway
Not so quiet on the western front The problem is that everybody annoys everyone Tales of terror, barkin' wheels and blazin' trucks There's always a way out. Don't go out in the rain You see- we got this all ass -backwards Now you've got me vinyl retentive Am I'm the one in a wood paneled pacer. Day dreamin' with an empty station wagon You've got me attention deficit and disorderly True until death, then spirit lives on And it's a very small world.
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Cro-Magnon
They were us We would draw Animal representations Beyond suspicion. From the caves to the stars Were we the crestfallen? The search inward An infinite journey. Dominant and dangerous Animals, yes, we were and are Bestiary determined images We are accustomed to seeing. A reminder from the recesses of our minds We were them Shadings and creative perspectives Of monumental timeless art.
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Cultural Traits
The Magdalene asylum Is the destination For many a pretty Irish girl You are in moral danger. Labor in silence This is your fate Unpaid and unloved Nuances overt of social traits. Heads shaved Bound the breasts A woman is always best Half-ripened in the ground. Home grown abuse Of human rights Church extracting monies While the world ignored the blight.
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Dead On Arrival In your hands Are placed the sallow and the sapphire Elf-fire and the elixir of life Coupled to venerable thoughts on mystic psychography And the royal color purple. Friar Rush holding The Book of Enoch Samyasa, heal by touch Of the blessed wonders of the old Hazel tree. . I can't believe it's Bave & Malphas Practicing the old Eromanty Nat in Nastrond And the old practice of salty Alomancy. I awakened from the strange dream To the sound of muffled laughter Who are you, pray tell And how did you get in here? I could feel icy beads of perspiration forming As if you didn't already know Some ghosts are not so benevolent And some, lost in thoughts, are apathetic. My invisible footsteps grew louder I was now spellbound or something stranger It just isn't easy to live with The cold realization that� you are alive in a brazen and fiery couldron.
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Decision Time
You must make up your mind It is time to decide I can't tell you forever what to do The pain in my heart cannot continue. You need someone to love You need the caring kind You can't go on Kicking me when I'm already down. You know I'll treat you right Leave your anger forever behind You've never been alone I've felt the pain he caused you too. I see the loving light in your eyes I will amplify the love you have to give Allow the pain to dissipate Allow your love to shine through.
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Delta Blues
They surely don't come when called I'm not rushing for nothing Bid my loving heart To still and take a stand After all this time Just let the night be quiet The mood of blue Whispers to the willing mind A main stream audience Of blues-seeking lovers Learned to play the guitar On the Georgia street corners "Gotta Let You Go" Was one of my first numbers Emotionally charged solo Matched to rough-cut rural vocals Sax sections on occasion Coupled to the big band sessions A natural beat in perfect tune Crying out such so sad words The mournful cry touching their souls Will make such sad and steady tears
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Disjointed Environmentalist
Kicking through the woods With knee- high boots and no physical imagery What I need is for the band of oaks To give me written approval. I'm living on disjointed thoughts and segmented paranoia Still selling Korean merchandise To pay for my fun junkets into the thicket of interpersonal perspectives I learned that vinyl is not biodegradable- you get my synthetic drift? They can shove The funny little safety slogans As I make my way through a solitary slew of images And fight off the stream of mental bullets as I nurture the environment. I have learned to accept nature And the social implications of ecosystems I learned to do it while juggling mental acrobatics And tomorrow is the last day of school.
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Ecological Encounter
It is no surprise To a brightly colored flower Laying in the early uncommitted sun That you would visit me once and again. Allow me To intoxicate you with my pollen I will love you And soon die. Are you the type of being Appreciative of the ecstatic instant? If not, I would still pardon thee Dear butterfly, I am and remain a holy and exquisite flower.
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Empty Nest Syndrom
Magnetic and static Get out Your sunset tint glasses And hit the road. You insist On continual consumption My best wishes For your independent existence. Autonomic expectations Live and let live I'm ready For later-life transition.
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Entheogen Dream
There's that Aztec angel again Waiting near the palace of dreams I glide through it all but the open door The radiance of corona curvature so majestically divine. Any time you're #9 dreaming The silvery vine will always see you through How can you share the heavenly shaman's experiences If you hesitate to cross the mind's imaginary screen? I feel happiness in the misty twilight When there's moonlight, a night like this is meant to be Chance it, glide with me to the time palace slowly We won't be there for eternity- place your trust in me!
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Eye Of The Needle
Evolution of diminution Throwaway society Trends in social movement I don't like the path. It is a long lasting Navigation Involving our species And the others along for the ride. Life is precious And provided with bastante Only the rich man Wants the experiments in cloning. It is acceptable To grasp the novel And pitch the traditional Just keep the wealthy alive and healthy.
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Final Trip Home
Riding the train through the groundsel trees Can't wait to cross that old familiar bridge Can you glimpse the swampy thickets and blue beaches? Praise Jesus, twenty years doin' time, I was heading home. Sea Queen of the ocean long knows There's a bit of heaven near the brackish water Where the Southern twilight shadows gather No more sing' the blues, I'm makin' my way back home. By evening I'm reachin' the empty station Oh, the mists and shadows were surely rising I've always been a prideful fellow And joyful, too, that my soul is finally home.
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Hannah
Gentle dog Making the world so much better Gentle dog Secure in a home of love. Gentle dog Running through the woods Gentle dog Drinking some cool brook water Gentle dog Laying in the field of clover Gentle dog Greeting as many children as possible. Gentle dog Devoted to her family Gentle dog A credit to her breeder.
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Hot & Irritated
Personality changes in the past Theories of boundary levels I think we have already crossed The threshold of global patience and limitation. Fossil fuels and greenhouse glass Heated up & temperature rising The atmosphere a nice warm coat Tales of Venus and trapped radiation. Increase in farming Feed the growing population Ice caps melting in the summer sun Short and unusually mild winters. Turn off the lights in four of your cars Insulate your mansion properly Plant a new tree and hold your breath Don't do anything requiring energy. I truly feel with increasing trepidation That the Earth we all call our home Has changed her point of view We are an annoying skin irritation.
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I Must Go And See Him
The horrors of war The intense four-year struggle Pitting brother against brother Emotional South Carolina Bringing Tar Heels and Old Dominion with them You did what was proper, with moral strength and conviction of personal honor The war papers recorded it all For future eyes to witness Tears for fallen Vicksburg The right arm gone, Baldy with one leg in the saddle Amidst the lightning and the thunder It actually ended with the fourth day's withdrawal The end is near now, Early raid too late The realization that it was over now, with nothing more to do Than to try and bring the country back together Stars and Bars taken down But never to be forgotten. From the site of a town called Court House Located on the banks of the Appomatox River
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I Think
Translucent treatment of all topics Inconclusive knowledge of what is unleashed Mass produced degreed entities Are you critical of the way they think? Recalled simplistic memories Of the somewhat plastic kind Membership in the gnosis club But maybe I'll just go with a temporary trial Bubble-brained pedagogical approaches Surely less is better Tell me, are the emperor's clothes Solidly transparent or almost certainly opaque?
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I'll Do It My Way
Sure, animals have dreams, it certainly seems to me Are you a genetically engineered goldfish Breathin' fresh air, hikin' the field Taking in all the scenes? Dissociate and re-evaluate, que sera, yes-siree Forget Darwin's order of events You were always a wild Great Dane Singing songs in Viking ships and sailing the stormy seas. Certainly you're a new and lighter toad Used to hiding somewhere in the woods Nor more of this, I'm flying the friendly skies I'm in seventh heaven, what a fantastic dream. I was a commanding lion With an accompanying ego and too much pride An expensive therapist brought me back down No, a greyhound bus driver- that's more like me.
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I'm Going Down
It's hard So awfully tough Life was so easy Now all is going bad, I'm going down. It was all games and gifts Now no job Lousy state of body and mind Always bad news. Endless soul searching Endless empty bottles Broken dreams, broken down man I've taken it hard, going down.
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I'm Taking Us To Mars
A special place indeed I'm making the move to Mars The essential qualities of traveling To places of feeling and final healing. Temple celebration It is an inspiration on lifeless Mars The cresendoes and ripple effects Of the golden miniature bells. A current material age Spent in hideous weaponry Smart bombs, smart brokers And fears of financial terror. The courage and gifted foresight To ponder and speculate I'm taking the loving listeners And moving the act to Mars
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In The Arena
On the Ides of March, I drew the cream of hearts And promptly found myself in a strange situation With an aggressive sprinkling of celery, pray tell Thumbs up or down, crouton cretin? We proceed to a large bowl, almost� an arena Things are now stirring up, at this spectacle -a strange social mixer Do you see the plot thickening as you sit? Chill out, I say, and learn, always, to keep the crowd happy. Introduce the hot pepper combatants tentatively They're always liable to simmer unpredictably If they reach a scalding point, in this hot Latin weather Then we go quickly to a low boil. Now you're cookin' with real class- a major gastric exhibition Bring in the romaine, garlic, anchovies and pepper dancers And with tribute paid to the noble Parmesan visitor� Hail, Caesar!
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Internal Compression
It was stifling Someone called for cross ventilation Back in sixty seven I still remember the issue. Strange human mind The classroom was so humid Why remember this? When so many things happened. Cramped claustrophobic conditions I recall the generated stress Compressed and controlled I was glad to escape. Walls closing in Tightness of throat and palpitations Increased unpleasant symptoms All the signs of stress. Now they understand The nature of panic attacks For so many A real problem of living
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Job & Zechariah Told You
He surely was descending At a velocity so acceptable In an gilded elevator And getting the royal shaft. The time he was in the storied bell tower With the brazen binoculars Watching the whole Confederate Army Coming down the storied pike. Now he's faking Dermot Of the fabled Love-spot He certainly seems to have it Dead center in the flaming forehead. A visit to the house of monastic Entrance as a scullion Kept down social eternal As a mere manual and nameless worker. By light of the magic lamp He went about the cursed work Inheritance of the unholy trait Through the gift of diabolic energies. Dropped the oak apples Into the wooden basin Observed the strictest silence And looked for the fascination. Rods of the sallow Methods of augurial divination The method of old inclinations To gain all desired information. A supreme and evil spirit Yes, one of the original slanderers Devoid of the acceptable virtue Yes, truly he is the product of demons.
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Justice For All
Personal concerns about direction Of an aimless government Which includes in a program of protection The entity called a mass- murderer. Another man On death row With no family or money Requests DNA to serve as his witness. In the aftermath Of social surrender Most others are apathetic I will not yawn.
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Land Of Plantations
Universal strategy To subdue and rule Repeating battles of Boyne Rented back me own land. Overplanted with these intruders Like my homegrown russet, they ripen best underground. Ascendancy and eminent domain Stranger in my own land. Political economic and religious Frustrations aplenty Loyalty of faith professed by the Glory of the victorious defenders. Clash at the social diamond Not a peep from them today A tithe and blight Happened upon my ancient and mystic land.
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Let It Pass
The memories are running through my mind As a gentle summer rain falls outside You were mine But that was long ago. We were close Rainbows As close as our dreams So close. One heart still singing out Though I have faded into your mind's recesses My heart has lost its listener and Your love has transgressed to another. Was there something more I could have done? The future we had planned Forever now in the unforgiving past.
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Letting Love Grow
The room was dimly lit As I dreamily gazed at you With the forlorn taciturn smile I was reminiscing once again. A recollection of decades flowing by As we slowly grew into a love composite Charter members Of a rare, select and secret love society. We truly play the leading parts In a comedy of manners Certainly no charade on our part A love so dignified and genuine. An avant-garde approach A plan, yes, so bold and daring We took the time to let love grow And the angels in heaven envy us.
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Level 33
Cast down and crestfallen As we form the requisite new crusade Brethren starting out on the spiritual journey Take heed, once again, there's danger we'll have to share. Start now, to face this world of lightning and thunder So many venomous demons spouting words of anger With these beings, be advised, settle up or settle down Recall these are sounds you surely don't want to hear. The outcome of this moral journey Was like ending up in the future just past Walked straight and didn't weep We entered, raised and passed, in accordance with the seer. As members of the secret brotherhood We scanned the actions of centuries already spent And true to our oaths, signs and sacred vows To the acacia, skull and crossbones we remained sincere.
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Lichen Life Form
Leftover spots and havens That the other life forms Passed over Finding a way to grow or at least survive On bare rock, desert sand, rusty situations And what have you. Among the oldest And surely the wisest Life forms placed here by the Creator You are a survivor And truly a unique two-fold creature. A parasitic decomposer Making a perfect union With the Protista Or did you do it for the Monera? An enterprising entity Certainly Worthy of study You saw us appear You will show us to the door You little lichen you!
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Lichen Life From
Leftover spots and havens That the other life forms Passed over Finding a way to grow or at least survive On bare rock, desert sand, rusty situations And what have you. Among the oldest And surely the wisest Life forms placed here by the Creator You are a survivor And truly a unique two-fold creature. A parasitic decomposer Making a perfect union With the Protista Or did you do it for the Monera? An enterprising entity Certainly Worthy of study You saw us appear You will show us to the door You little lichen you!
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Lighter Than Air Your personal invitation To a lighter-than-air convention Around the physical world With the toes not touching down. Troubled and turbulent skies For the entire damn duration Trigger the downward descent Cloud hopping and radio controlled Up on the ceiling Lighter or heavier Depending on the flexible feelings Emotional volatilities expanding outward. Bag o' helium balloon Love lighter than air On the inclined rise Please drop me a line.
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Lighthouse Vigil
Steadfast, maintaining A lonely and solitary vigil You stand as a beacon To vessels at sea. The waves, the salt The winds and unrelenting Summer sun Only lend to your character and dignity. Admirers come from near and far To join you in your vigil They are mesmerized By your nightly searching beacon. A member of a guardian breed Showing the way back home I am in awe Of your majesty.
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Love Triangles It didn't look right No, something was not right Was it my intuition That suggested this to me? My thoughts were clear They certainly were not opaque Am I not a creature of reasoning Then why am I bathed in such an acute sea of emotion? It was not right,no The situation was not right Am I involved in a triangle? Her angle was�so obtuse.
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Natural Selection
Darkened center of the fragrant woods A somber owl gauges your motivation Majestic massive oaks Wonder why you came. Everything is so quiet and still Why did you come To this center of stillness and dew Were you by chance summoned? Yes, an invitation To the deep flowing River of solitary thought And lovely solitude of this sacred haven. A few moments here Priceless meditation As evening shadows gather You realize nature had chosen you for visitation.
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Necessity Of Patience
Exactly what happens The outcome to your advantage Have faith Time will teach you the tenet. Rich and hospitable Poor and humanitarian Spare room always available In the heavenly mansion. Infuration with everything Want of the unattainable Lessons of pain and failure Value in every loss. Eventual discovery There is no control Strong and steady Confront life's obstacles.
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Noah's Arc
Firm footing required To cross small rivers and streams Shallow stream makeup Will determine your forward speed. Disregard the warnings And serious damage will happen Virtual reality panorama From inside a capsized haven Small creek overflow Invariably from sudden flash flooding Doppler weather indications We better take fast cover. Low lying areas Traveling people use extreme caution Heavy rain persisting Until the canopy is empty. The Biblical floods And the coming greenhouse apocalypse Ancient climate science Coming back to haunt us.
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Not A Laughing Matter
Internal stresses and conflicts Painful internal affliction Sometimes it hurts To anticipate the second movement. Duress with regularity Endless cycle of pain and tension Eliminate the misconceptions Dissipate the tortured fears. Persistent exercise and diet The rigors of strain Ease up slowly on retention Eventually all things must pass..
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Objective Apparition
The orb was not a mere hallucination A ball of light perhaps luminescent Patches and shapes tracing Strange earthly manifestations A dim light in the darkness Something strange this way came Alternate and rational explanation Surely it was telepathic projection A collective dilemma Another name for group encounter Spread out in paranormal fashion A truly phantasmogenic fantastic Surely this was not the basic conclusion It was decided to be an apparition.
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Parallel Universe
Duplicity of existence Exotic and strange outlay Of time and solid matter Creation in a mere six days. Gravitational gyro output From universes far apart Everything always the same If you really want it to be in your heart. Absurd speculation Flowing from heart not mind The rationale and reliability of existence Greater than we hope to find. Superstrung hyperspace Membranous bubbles that ripple Wobbling through the tenth dimension Creative contours of crests and dimples. The creative touch of existence Granted long before your time Extra dimensional and multi-layered cosmos Big bang bonanza stopped ..on a dime.
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Pattern Recognition
I am caught in the crossfire Of endless conjecture and possibility In regard to my Restless abandons for you. Is it the aspect of cerebral insight Or the creative output Of your intense and determined mind That brings me back to you? The complexity of complicated patterns Is it intentional design On your part To cause me confusion, or to exercise mind control?
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Phoenix And The Serpent
The mouth of the flaming snake Feasting frantically and furiously Ravenous in the awful extreme An appetite so horribly horrendous. An unholy introduction By way of the magic words It was my command summoning the serpent From places so fearfully forbidden. A meal of self-mutilation A circle of endless delight Ancient symbol of transmutation A phoenix in full and sudden flight.
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Poetry Polemics
The general reluctance To follow genealogical maps Poetic affinity refusal and denial Of recognizable and reliable direction. Celebration of tradition Fallen into disfavor Impact of literary vitality Collapsing against constraints unnatural. A general response to world affairs and condition Reaction in lieu of action Poets at the fringes of the situation Generation of a tower of social Babel. Paradigmatic linguistic shift Offered up as the standard bearer A few select schools of thought Dictating the acceptable path to follow. Society versus the individual What value the single divine essence? A cultural community of poets With disordered chaotic prose arrangements. Unifying theme of art and science Torn asunder by the whims of the self-appointed few Personally indifferent to paths of fad I will follow the path tested and true.
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Print Out
Not geared toward commercialization I still am not going underground Your hungry needs and acquisitions Differ markedly from mine. I'm a mix of passive and active approaches A blend of standard mixed emotions You're usually far out of reach And everyone wants the mental piece of you. Who will expose the soft underbelly? Who will read your heart on the sleeve? The aggression masking your sweet emotions You're really the vulnerable kind.
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Prudent Judgement
I was I recall On the side of the river's edge A chill in the air Thinking of you and me. You never made it so plain The way you really felt Good night to nighttime Feelings are crystal clear A good, good day The feelings inside are free Comprehensive comparisons Of love's tendency to fool I'm back to being me Retrospect now complete Moonstruck manifestations Now put on the freeze.
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Psychomotor Drive
Mesmerized, hypnotized Rockin' to an altered state of mind Reaching out to rave, oh blessed tachycardia She's flying on the wings of song. It's a world of danger When strangers come together, You fall in love too easily You reach out much too fast. Adam's coming in closer Your body now moving faster You dance steadily eastward And embrace the serotonin sister. Your movements now are lighter Brain and mind now torn asunder Oh beautiful star of heaven, the world is forever more behind you As you fall effortlessly into the sun.
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Quantum Leap
Pure contemplation An abundance of divine light Knowledge is ineffable Indelible impressions on the soul. Divine essence What was the purpose of the journey? A display of ethereal visions Illumination so heavenly sent. Facts and phenomena Pointing toward these tenets Early and mature writings Display the measure of the man. Moral elevation A cycle of perennial joy Awaits the person seeking Total and final subjugation.
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Rendering The Remainder
The wire frame illustration Portraits of the widow Installed imagery Digital design delightful. Upcoming deadlines Keeping in mind The personal needs of growth And a mind so inclined. Outright speculation A small dose of conjecture Could it still be That plastic reigns supreme? Topological layout Exploration of the potential Area less than volume Contours of the mind.
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Repair And Restoration
Wading through waist high grass Heartbreaking situation Anti-bellum resting place For counts of saddened thousands. Running out of room And financial limitations A mother searches diligently For her daughter's location. The guardian of the grounds Not up to the task Ineptitude And theft two of his vices. Maintenance costs Now in indefinite limbo Where is a haloed head To correct the sad situation?
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Retrospect
A life fully livable Good things recalled not bad Ask yourself this statement On monumental and fateful days. Seems like a stupid question Breaking things down overanalyzing You might want to spend More time on the dreaming side. Even on the bad days Break things down cooly You always seem to know so tenderly The right things to say. Hot and heavy fantasies I'll give you more than everything The critical things, the important things I'll embrace you for eternity. Love needs no verbal reply In detailed retrospect The right things to say remain unsaid All I need is your sweet imagery.
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Soft Drive
A new generation of illiterate explorers An endless series of browser ballads Chats & e-boards And unusual screen- savers. Four-function purple scanners The need to book a personal flight Into plastic and heartless Strategic business patterns. Play block breakers Coupled to tiny wireless cameras Release notes version 7 And downloaded installations. Crowded mental complex So pervasive is computerized pollution Quieter and easier times now Under google evaluation.
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Solitary Voice
A strange and disturbing voice Whispers, suggestions and lectures A world of reality and future predictions Built inside his nocturnal mind. Impossible to function Intrapersonal obsession Certainly a constrained compulsion Dysfunctional voyages into speculation Sunlight streaming in the windows Then my voice finally fades away A broken link into conjecture I know he's not insane. . The laughter in my voice Knowing he must live with this alone Forces beyond his control He dare tell no one of our conversations .
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Special Adaptations
An allowance of sixty inch width Handicapped sensibilities Located on level ground Highly identified with a sign. Lift-lowered accessible aisle International signs of accessibility Slip-resistance stabilities Concerns for the limitations of fellow man. Tara and Townsend Have bought into the situation A warm and social custom Dublin is an emerald city. Unusual accordance They say society is unraveling Sensitivity to disabled parking Suggests the power of organization.
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Spiritual Molecule
The fringes of what is accepted The boundaries of what is known Ego in touch with a realm Unbeknownst to the innocent soul. The contact With discarnate entity So apparently impressive So right and so much the norm Implications of the radical contact Warm and not at all threatening The wind cascading through the tunnel A Pentecostal transcendence universal It was the norm Of adjacent reality The imagery of space and time Boundless and fathomless.
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State Of Mind Severe sensory isolation The need to reach out Fear of sleep The night terrors and nightmares Walking the streets Until the crack of dawn. The growing awareness Meditation the door to states desirable Will to change Always the key inside you The mental serenity Comes with peace of mind.
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Tale Of The Monks
Monastic spiritual vanguard Common rites and religious traditions Literary and cultural lifeblood Center of the medieval societies. Impetus on the innocent Learning and culture Heights of perfection Record of human endeavor. Magnificent Monumental Icons and murals National revivals Of religious traditions. Bulwark of the papal system Pulpit orators Railers against the religious Inroads into moral corruption. The king's pleasure Granting a temporal respite From a pilgrimage of grace For the right price.
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The Act Of Love
It was the fiftieth day A day I would always remember The day the harvest of souls Had finally begun. The spirit rained down A heavenly gift of love and blessing What am I, Lord Without your radiant love? Immune from inhibition I will see clearly Unafraid to love, unafraid to share Unafraid to give, my heavenly Lord above. I will tarry in this world A little bit longer A life of service and devotion Till the call to return home.
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The Autograph
It's late in my fan career Please don't tell me no You got a hold of me In the ever-loving extreme Standing hours near the doorway Itching in the crowded sunlight I bet it's more Than your hanky can hand. Angular, arrogant and obviously over-blown Can't wait to see you finally leave Don't want you decidedly back Deplete and delete my good intentions.
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The Controllers
Typical adminstrators Taking more than giving This Goes without saying. The years of struggle The years of determination To find A few dominating the situation. They The few avoiding human contact The self-appointed elect Steering the wheel of misdirection.
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The Darwinist Gentry
Fear and guilt come to mind When you see the lower working kind The embodiment of slipping backwards Easily at any time in the finite life. A craving for holy absolution The way you degraded and utilized others You now turn your concerns Safely toward those a little closer to your "kind". Yes, the affirmative action approach Is now your means of packaging 21st century Scapegoats , the underclass always subject To the exploitations of the Darwinist Gentry.
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The Entertainer
The luck bringer Hunchback charm delight The court jester Making things better and bright. Eccentric and grotesque gestures The evil spirits Managing To laugh in uproarious delight. Tale of personal misfortune Luck to those who stare The power dual in nature Touch the deformity if you dare.
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The Isle Of Man A spectacular sight Beneath the gentle rolling hills Fomations and color Beautiful jewels of nature Beckoning to adventurers. An internal mansion of gracious beauty Isle of Man For all people to share Sound of calf So far unnamed and unexplored Dance of belay Swinging from side to side Approach the portal Withe the greatest of care Take adive so prudently give Nature waits patiently With open arms the bold are embraced Beware the unwary Most accidents involve serious climbers Beware to the unwary. A speleological authority Wise guide to the unknown Burial cairns With remains of ancient people Lost in the tunnel. Talk of treasures Is more than idle chatter Only the worthy Will enter the forbidden door The gold rests so ever patiently.
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The Miller's Song
The evolution of key events Bubblesol cycle the key reactor Atmospheric counterparts And include precipitated droplets. Endless cycles Of ebb and flow Fundamental and timeless assumptions Involving certain oceanic interactions. Common meeting ground Of clays and the organic Warm little ponds included Now wait for something to happen.
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The Same Tired Recordings
Underground passions -the greatest hits I do not count compilation Three subconscious releases and I'm still Working on this well-played list. Continue to work at your own risk Vault it up Give proper tedious and tiring respect To the sound track constraints of finality. I'm at the well-worn crossroads Of forever leaving the spirit behind Why can't the rest of them Just exist like us? A simple untitled song Unpublished and fully completed One of the rarest yet It involves the effort of unconditional love.
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The Tide Of Battle
A written monument To a bit of the esoteric The ancient folk ritual Using the fly agaric. The midsummer fires of devotion The eve of St. John the Baptist The bonfires of summer solstice The night of Amanita encroaching upon us. The faces swollen and filled with rage Tide of battle turning against them Clearing the path of friend or foe Release of the wild Bezerkers Completion of deeds Beyond the mere mortal For days after word The mind weak and feeble Smell the words Taste the colors The modern experiences continue still Of unconventional weaponry.
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The Troll Under The Bridge
The utmost care and concern Must be tendered When encountering the classic Troll living under a bridge. Some may seek I advise you honestly To do you harm Others are to human contact remiss. I advise you That they can draw river channels And conduct the waters Toward their best advantage. They do despise I can forewarn you Clattering steps above them Step lightly and avoid the idle banter.
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The Veneer Eternal
In the external estate And certainly an antique A great selection To satisfy your mien tastes Novelty And so mundane Golden and timeless earringed bangles Penchant for unusual pendants. If you don't see what you want Demand it Enigmatic engorgement Of lasting inquiries, attitudes and demeanors.
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The Wolf Pack
Vocal talent distinctive A great surge of creativity Running on empty Due to an unpleasant infection During these sessions He grew to love collaboration The first day Saw seven songs recorded. Success brings tameness Born to always be wild Pass it on Life should always involve adventure. Reflections and recollections A truly magic carpet ride Excitement and enthusiasm Surely fades away with time. Do or die Here, sign on the line I had heard Best of what you got.
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This Phase Of Testing
During this vignette Of our relationship There are already indications Of possible uncertainties. Are you truly A highly- regarded citizen Passing with flying colors All the random mental testings? Present day cheapened euphoria Make no lasting personal impressions By executive order Signed by me. Will you pass All the mental barriers That I intentionally place In your path? In terms of long term Relationship Together we shall go over The results of the scheduled exams.
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Time Honored Methodology
Unorthodox scenarios Unusual defenses Situations requiring Immediate attention. Handling holy water At high altitudes Skin in rashes Bacterial count alto. Starved into ribcage exposure Shock to the beloved system Green technology suicide machine Problems with power shortages Practice methods for unusual offenses What's done can't help you Novel advice on innovation given Try relaxing during the life.
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Time Of Change
The mystery of religion What is it we want? The chance to live eternal With love around us so visible. The influence of heaven A variety of accounts Inadequacy of our languages To express our needs and wants. A longing and a yearning The angels are on our side Different levels of mortal living Spiritual evolution close at hand.
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Timeless Pairing
Oh, my ageless and timeless Miranda After all these years You are still A heavenly enigmatic beauty to me. The spiritually uplifting walks In our Nantucket garden Excite me ever still But tire me so. Continue to caress the canvas While I pour my usual glass of merlot And watch you Ensnare and ensue me with your radiant soul. Why have we Been granted Such duration of time While other have been granted so precious little?
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Tip Of The Peninsula
Bordering the basilicata Between seas of Tyrrhenian and Ionan An isolated individuality With two million souls alive in the cols and valleys. Land of treed mountains massif Pollino and the Botte Donato The chestnuts and the beechwoods The evergreens of pines and spruces. The deer, the boar The woodpecker and the martin Some of the wildlife most attractive Did I fail to mention the peregrine falcon? Still mysterious and unexplored wetlands A flourish of vegetation The magnificent yellow flowers And the colorful iris. Languages of Cosenza and Catenzaro Albanian and Greek in the Bova The forsaken peoples Living in the rural and isolated regions. Ancient and modern Romans Policies of exploitation Eternal resistance on subsistence farming Thank heaven for the olives in abundance. A land of splendor Endless variety of panorama Majestic blue and green beaches The Mediterranean haven of Calabria, Italia.
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Too Much Imagery
Brain drain and bit-mapped out No recollection, review or consideration Of traditional means of collected imagery Compulsive implications of fabricated composites now the rage. Realization of the long-term impact of Recognized visualizations, Retrograde reflections & Retrograde creative amnesia on a universal scale irrelevant. Short-term memory Of hard-driven addictions Fatal cerebral graphics disorder How does these implications summate? The primordial days Of image memories and retrieval Long outdated & Irrelevant.
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Torpor Bird
Diminutive illegal alien Who smuggled you into this country Where is your passport And who was the coyote? A particularly brutal border crossing It was no feast but all famine Sluggish flower bloomings Hard to find the nectar trail. Upstroke downstroke Left and forward right Aerodynamic body with Tiny feet evolving on the way out. Tired hummer with great memory Finally made it back to our home Communication by visual means Signals me that all is o.k.
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Trademark Love
Quite unique is this woman's trait A bifurcation of opposite interests A gradual synthesis of a special kind of love Revelation in so-called installations. Drawing upon popular genre An endless series of montages Composite and then deliver The spellbinding images of love. A provision of deep connotations Often of thematic notions Yes, smooth and intense collusion Offered to this particular connoisseur of love.
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Try To Relax
The more you try struggling Faster you sink It can occur almost anywhere With proper conditions It is basically just sand Saturated with water. Mushy mix of sand and water Supports no weight Those struggling sink the fastest Very rarely deep By just trying to relax Body lighter than the quicksand Escape its clutches And get on with life!
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U-Boat Death
Awash with two feet Of the stinking diesel fuel Could no longer dive Bring it to the surface Tried in vain to air the ship Could not charge her batteries Two hours after the incident Came an escort carrying a unifoxer Heaven sent fog to blanket the scene Got away slowly in the darkness Taking on the waters of the sea The ship had to be abandoned We had served as best we could But the war was now clearly over The final idea that came to mind What port could be a safe haven?
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Universal Priorities
We were gazelles, running through The purple enchanted urban forest Did you realize That silence is golden? Direct only thoughtful Patterns unto paper And reflect some more Upon the implications. There is too high A signal-to-noise ratio Mindless jabber Interfering with universal truth and meaning.
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Unusual Melody Weird manifestation Written down in near entirety Dialogue nearly dialectic Symmetrically diatonic. I listened attentively In near visible darkness Heavenly composers working It dawned on me during discourse. Nearly open disclosure Almost taunting me to hear Something so seductive And so high a pertinent value I was the currency Of the standard issue The composers could care less Of my fears or comprehension.
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Von Meyer
Failure to be appreciated or understood Compounded to personal setbacks and disasters A failed attempt at suicide, frustrations of genius Lead to the mental institution Cruel and inhuman treatment The prevalent mode of understanding Born in poverty, what had he done To deserve this fate, nature's reward for aberration. Eventually released, so much suffering and pain And more toiling in obscurity Tyndall recognized the magnitude of his aura And secured him proper recognition Look ahead now and judge the prospective young ivy-lover With the 1500+ level of test-taking excellence Accompanied by the contrived resume of requisite human contact All the right answers to the shallow questions that are presented. The bags under your eyes at seventeen So much to really learn, you want life as you understand it A high-paying job with lifelong social service As long as it's at a convenient distance.
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Wall Where They Meet
The bare wall will soon see the efforts Of the confluence of creative human cognition And record the accomplishments and frustrations Fashioned by the new Fishermen of science and art. The unraveling of King Duplex Brought about by degradative mutation or kinetic intrigue, Lady Polymerase ,what is the spectrum? A spider web - realization that nature likes science and art. Smell the array of colors and feel the creative tensions People working together, the way it should be in science and art Doves and deer, pumps and flasks, Cro-Magnon sketches Simple clay surfaces can build a spiral staircase to the stars. Clues to life's origins, molecular recognition Embedded in King Duplex's asymmetric induction The pyramid, all knowing ,albeit not telling All on the wall where they meet, science and art. The intensity, determination, motivation Along with imagination, always present in science and art. Bertsie brought us Weena, evolution and the yellowish metal Due to the marriage of science and art.
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Welcome Back Beautiful Bird
I like it The usual sign of spring Bird with fantail flicking upward Flycatcher bird on schedule. Mosquito King Coming back for the summer Your home is my home Noticed four in the nest while I'm barbecuing. I notice You're working nights and weekends No sunflower seeds desired Only bugs accepted- super flycatcher! Beautiful bird With pale eye rings and threatened brethren You are welcome back Whenever.
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Will To Survive
Dying out without protection The break down and release of life eternal Slowly resolving to reach equilibrium In the blackness of finite space. The temperature swings And lack of water Suspended animation For those in rightful possession. Cryoprotectant righteousness The will to survive Propogation later in the journey Determined will to continue the fight.
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Willing To Learn
Oh so suddenly An ever so strange setting The need to find out What you need to know. A strange attraction To the hungry yearning A chance to dream A chance to grow. When the dream occurs One must take the chance Ever the chance to learn Always the chance to grow. The transformation A great awakening An unfettered mind So clear from the start.
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Withdrawal Symptoms
Let's dialogue about it You think I cried too much last night I'm not about to go through oxygen consumption Because the winged sphinx decided to roll back time. I was off to the island of Soma, swimming in the secret sea But I knew, in time, we'd turn it upside down Yea, play some songs about lovin' & drinking And let's go deep about the underlying themes. I brought back with me some forbidden fruit Perception persistence now fully underway Now it's really up to you- think about it this time, honey And why don't you just plan to stay?
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World Of Our Own
A penny for your thoughts No time like the past Recollections and premonitions Time enough to last. Walking distance The nick of time Arm in arm A timeless paradigm. The after hours A world of our own The eye of the beholder To each his loving own.
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