Sunday, May 18, 2008
Poetry
ON THE ROAD TO MOROCCO Have you ever been to Panama Mozambique and Zanzabar Or Do you sit in a rocking chair Dreaming of places far and near. Follow your bliss Seize the day Don’t’ let Time run away With it
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Poetry
UNTITLED How do you cure a tender heart How do you make it stronger And Hard How do you build that wall of stone So it can stand on its own What do you do To teach it to Feel only what it wants to feel How do you make it steel.
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Saturday, May 17, 2008
Poetry
TEMPUS FUGIT Speeding through space and time No chance to catch my breath Leaving all I love And who loved me Behind. Like avenging Furies on their prey Time has carried me away Yesterday was just 10 years ago It seems How did I come this far So fast How did I lose my present to the past Where did I...
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Poetry
WHY DO WOLVES BAY AT THE MOON? Clowns rushing in Fat lady with a triple chin The man on the flying trapeze A marvelous frivolity But Why do you look at me With that same curiosity Didn’t you ever see Anyone move the way I do A slight corporeal difficulty Some sort of short circuitry Between brain...
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Friday, May 16, 2008
Poetry
REVISED: added as well Internet link to Bernini A SECOND TO PARADISE A sudden rapture of the soul A sigh A letting go A moment of ecstasy Being free Finality One second to Paradise. Comment: Thought or imagery of death inspired by a sculpture of Santa Teresa de Avila by Bernini: as she is pierced by...
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Thursday, May 15, 2008
Poetry
INFATUATION It’s just infatuation A fascination Of the heart An emotional flu of sorts A hiccup of the soul Just let it run its course “I love you” Has no meaning Unless it is forever But then again We don’t know when Forever ends For each and every one
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Poetry
THE UNFORGIVEN We are the Unforgiven Some sin, some flaw, some fault And then Eternal expiation Pleasures that turn into pain Hope shattered by despair Onetime dreams no longer there Puppets on a string Marionnettes Ladies and Gentlemen: Place your bets Are we or are we not Someone’s “pets”
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Poetry
ONLY THE LONELY What does it take For a heart to break And stop beating. How many times does it need to hear Those words that shatter dreams. Only the lonely understand It seems The meaning
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Poetry
MY "POETRY" I don’t know why I write these Things they call “verses” By any other name. I realize Nothing that will win a prize Nothing new Nothing different to say. Yet Pieces of me fall into this “poetry” A Will A Testament A Journal of each event Of yesterday And today A way to forget A way to...
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Poetry
GIVE A FINGER AND YOU ASK FOR AN ARM I used to see the man once in a while Walking by He lived on the third floor Guess we won’t see him anymore A hundred and four You say? And It happened just yesterday.? What a pity What a shame Do you realize If he hadn’t died He would have lived to one hundred...
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