something silly…

something silly…

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let me recall for you
a tale
a tale of
two tongs
a mated pair
paired as long
as tongs recall
a romance, until.
walked… by… thong
“this is splitsville baby
I’m gone!
time to dig
into something new!”
so he splits, in two,
and after much
inner weaving
she decides
the very next evening
to grab on her grip
and find something new, too
two tongs

notes… just one of those that sprung up one me, just amusement, something simple, silly and silly… no idea why this popped in my head, ask the muse, it is not my business man I just work here. leave space in the world for the silly, man is not satisfied on philosophical doldrums alone…. sounds like a good tag line, maybe I could use it on a blog…

just a little poem…

just a little poem…

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compassion
the better half
as decreed
maps the path
from wounded knee,
is sin a birth mark
not removed
in forgiveness wash
still imbued

notes… as usual sometimes I poke through my unpublished stuff and see if anything hits me, I sort of always liked this in the back of my mind, but time passes and you forget about things (I wrote this back in dec 2018), I thought it very lyrical at the time, and now… one minor tweak (the first line was one line with the second line but the cadence in my head read it as two after I wrote it).. so, there you have it… and there it is…

music: let’s rock, it’s the summer man, roll down the windows and get…

>>>>> Unchained – Van Halen

and don’t forget I also write Media reviews (TV, film and the like… and I would like to think I am good… or at least decent, come on now people I do work 6 days a week…)

lost. love. letters.

lost. love. letters.

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so here I am
broken and old
I left you so long ago
but never could untether my soul
I will tell my grand children about you
should I have them
like a fairy tale
like a fable
I hardly believe myself, anymore
“for I was once in love
with the most beautiful girl
in all the world”
for she was
and so you are, still
age and time has not stolen that vision
in my eyes blind
your such simple perfection
gifted unto me
a brilliant burning helium core
of the brightest star
and now you are, just that
up in my sky
distant
but always there to guide my heart
upward
to the north, a path
to one day I might depart
upon
and reunite, with you
my love
my heart, my love, I await our reunion
even if, I know this will never come.

notes… as I fall into routine, this has been my thursday night thing lately, no guaranty it will stay, but it seems ok to reflect on her once a week even if she is on my mind more than that.

and what else do you need…

>> Minus the Bear – Last Kiss (live)

listen to the lyrics… just listen…

learning…

learning…

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I place my hand upon the trunk
run my fingers along
so I might read a story
above under thumb
the bumps
of history
I do not remember
how long since I lost my worldly sight
for I am the known wise man
and those seek me out

but for that which wisdom I have gained
was paid for with which I left behind
so perhaps that is my lesson
to teach those still
with vision

notes…  written back in June, revised just now, one of those that sprang from a single thought, me just running my hand down a tree trunk, when I was walking my dog, and thinking what so many have thought, what has this tree seen ? and could I ever tap into that knowledge ? and if I could…

So we are mostly water… so I am told…

So we are mostly water… so I am told…

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H2one
bodies of water
so we are
holding our ocean within,
internal gravity
we capture moisture
from the outer-world,
internal irrigation
so our inner fauna
can stave off extinction
all that flows in our rivers and channels
not just rafts of cells
or the pulse of marrow
but bolts of electric information
memories, thoughts
joys, pain
the self,
the self contained
eco system one
the only ocean
we are masters of
and yet still do not know
nor have mapped
all the depths
and fathoms
of our own.

music ? as usual my parade of under rated bands as I scream their names in the blog wind…

>>>>> Mindfunk – Wierd Water

notes…. wrote this back in July (with a couple of tweaks tonight), man that feels like a long time ago… the summer is nearing an end, I feel like I missed something, but I do love the fall, not like face planting, I mean the season in general, it is when I vacation, when people go back to school I usually shoot off to somewhere for a couple of weeks… tomorrow? off to dig for fossils here in new jersey, yes, I typed that right… if all goes well I might report, and you can retort, or be a sport… and leave me a like, a comment, a question, a new and interesting way to deal with super hot chiles… I could write a blog on just that, but that would not be my voice alone, so I will let others handle that… but damn I love hot chiles….

Observational poetry…

Observational poetry…

Sometimes I see something and it is just a trigger for some lines, this would be one of those times, a simple thought, just spilled out of my gut, onto this page, how um, romantic, if not gross… but seriously this was just inspiration from a frame, some old wooden power lines stretched across the vast salt marshes of southern new jersey… which made me write this…

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wooden power lines
make me think of the plains
and open spaces
stretching prairies
golden rolling fields
wide winding roads
that inevitably lead
to the feet of mountains
and the gateway of the west

notes… tonight I was at my cousin’s house, one block from the beach in Monmouth Beach NJ…  seemingly I was watching a life I left, or was supposed to have, it isn’t that I am unhappy, but it is strange to observe the changing of generations, the “kids” I knew are now all young 20 something party animals, my cool cousins are now almost the older generation, my uncles and aunts are all 80 plus… life is strange, I am glad to observe it, I must have looked like a weirdo to them, just kind of kicking back and taking it all in, a watcher, no need to fit in, comfortable in my own skin but content to stand by myself, I must admit that I thought about her… how she would have been right next to me and I would have brought the bell to the ball in my mind and heart, I would gladly have had the most beautiful girl in the room, because she always was, to me, but I am happy for the others, my brother who is on wife three, my cousin from philly who has gotten back with a great guy (as far as I could always tell, and I am a good judge of character), a cousin with a new beau, her older sister with the same old who seems a new man when wall street leads to ocean views, and my uncle who’s birthday this was all for, let me be that when I am 80 and I will claim victory, but to look out, and see three generations of your family…. that must be something, I saw it, but I am not of it… but somehow I do embrace it even if I feel outside it at times…

lost. love. letters.

lost. love. letters.

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“if words could fare thee well
I would write them
if words could bridge that gap
I would find them
if words could relay my love
I would deliver them”

notes… thursday, the arbitrary day I choose to muse on her, my love, wherever she may be at the moment, I hope the world holds her well, all I can do is hope for her

(on going series, scroll down my collection page)

and it all started with a simple rain drop…

and it all started with a simple rain drop…

red textile
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for I am witness to cleopatra’s tear
to the mighty sword of genghis khan
raindrops
a map to the stars
the night provides
a canvas to the past
of lives that are now ours
and let the hours pass
and eons slide
from up upon plymouth rock
and armstrong’s stride
from the very emergence of humanity
come forth african savanna
a culmination
a cauldron
for we are all these
children of the mother
divine interpretation
the mark of the father

notes… sometimes I ponder if the air I am breathing is the same air breathed by someone else, so long ago, we all have shared this space, this earth, our only home, as far as we know, so a single raindrop hit my windshield the other day, and as I like to say…. the words wrote themselves…

Music ?  why not… The Bangles – Walk like an Egyptian

lost. love. letters.

lost. love. letters.

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“she knows
every trick trigger and measure
to get under my skin
and at my pleasure
awash in my thick vanity
adored by the mob fawning
flattery
a crop of golden laurels
blind surrender
the crisp apple bears
twice bitten”

notes… for she is my weakness and my strength, my triumph and my tragedy, my love and my loss, lost. I wrote this back in may but revised it this day, so…. here it is or was, or, now, or… something. (oh yeah, and I am making lost. love. letters like a thing now… just visit my collections page to see all the posts if you dig this particular vibe, then you can skip my other stuff if you so choose)

music (I wonder if anyone checks these out, ah, if it is any one of you that’s cool)…

>>>>> Lush – Sweetness and Light

and by the way… I review media (movies, TV) when I get the chance, I also review brews over @ BeerAdvocate (I am allergic to sulfites in wine so beer is my drink of choice, well, OK bourbon as well when I can sit back and kick some Basil’s or Elijah Craig sitting on a deck overlooking some water…)

allegory, damn I love that word…

allegory, damn I love that word…

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“I feel like a lost traveler
a wanderer
holding a lantern up against the darkness
stumbling toward the cliff
I can only see with which
the light I was given
only through these eyes
piloted through my perception
I hear the rumors of others
I happen upon their remains, their works, their names
even then there is no clear path
ahead laid out before me
in this wilderness
so I must trust in the light
that something is out there worth
this endless search
from foot falls foot to own
I travel on
forward
upon my road”

tonight’s musical extravaganza ?  funny you should ask..

>>> Tiamat  -Brighter than the Sun

sometimes I need me some goth/doom/metal stuff… but really is this that different from some David Bowie stuff ? nah… open your mind, and ears, I have vast tastes and intend to share them regardless of futility, damn the borg, they got nothing on me…