The Rose in the Woods

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Pistol

Like the essence of air

Drafts a sweetness eager to share

Honey tasting breeze

Combing through hair

Like the spring step

Of a paper dragon

Worked up by fire

In cooperation of joyous feet

Like the clever eastern child

Beaming with pride

The honor of his families lineage

Beams in his soul

So does the lovers sweet dance

Through cooling romance

Reflected upon the pond

Beneath moonlit glance

Mirror both paths

Of the flower's pistil and stamen

Shown.

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Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Charade

To be ready is like a loaded gun

With the hair of a trigger

Between eternal life and fun

Fun or immortal vision

With the weight of the World

Your concerning decision

A condition of no stable matter

No concrete choice

Just emotional scatter

The brain using logic

To reason what’s whole

An in depth analysis

Parts of snow in the cold

A blanket of frost

Preserving decay

As you hold onto delusions

That shift with the day

To stay stagnant can suffocate

Even a fish

Fishing upon the sea

An old man in the mist

The midst of destruction

Of trouble

Of toil

Rose colored glasses

Perceiving a myriad door

With stained glass creation

There is an elegant trade

Give yourself to your art

Work without charade.

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5 Times

Have you ever prayed

Five times a day

Up with the dawn

As if to say

Here I am

Take my hand

Work with me

Tirelessly and slow

Have you ever bent down

Starred at the ground

With your back parallel to the shore

The high noon Sun kissing your toe

Have you ever knelt down

At five o’ clock sharp

Begging for mercy with your head

Your heart

Submitting with third eye floored

Perhaps you have counted patience

With beads or on trees

But did you know the fingers show

A more convenient way to proceed

Through the evening hours

Repeating powers

Of words given to us

Sewed

And right before bed

Your union had wed

One last consolation

With the one you love so.

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Sunday, August 15, 2010

Summer Delights

Tasting the finest delights summer air

Fireflies roaming and warming what’s near

Wisps of the flowers scented clean fair

Foreign stars aligned upon maps over stairs

A blanket of earth covering sharp bladed ground

Insects mingling in whispering paths clear of sound

Clever small children running with day

Soft hearted adults musing at the wonders at play

A sugary pond by a manor conclave

With a mother of ducklings showing the way

A fish breaking surface letting shore be known

With blue green algae accepting the flow

A delicacy springs through air with surprise

Attempting small shows where its sustenance flies

In heart wrenching moments ideas wear their disguise

As conversations spark as to where it all lies

The debate carries on all through the night

Exchanges of experience education and insight

When all is done and the rum through pours run

The delights in mixed languages and a variety of tongues

A hearty meal from South America to Singapore

Life lessons padded on bellies from the top to the floor

With vibrant stories mixed in good fashion

Such as a harp players love or a conductors sweet passion

The concerto of summer soon draws her soft poise

A humming interlude from a singer’s dear voice

The choir matches the pitch and the audience rejoices

All of nature beholds precision and purpose.

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Saturday, August 14, 2010

Awe

The road to awe is paved with this intent

A vision and a scene of your full extent

Placing the seed from the branch deep below

Testing your faith and just how far you will go

Through life times doors you often do clamor

The glamour the fame befits you with manners

Mirrored only by the World you know whole

Inhaling a breath from the stories you’re told

Climbing the tree with blisters swollen hands

Soon falling asleep on the softest broad branch

The veins of skin and the walls of bark

The hollow of feelings of scars left their mark

A quest through the sea for legends foretold

Accompanied by none touched by flaming sword

A fight by the night to cure a disease

Kneeling by bedside clasped hands pressed upon knees

The road to awe is not run with bright gold

It is rich with crimson and clear salty cold

Drawing you closer to conscious sweet shift

Counting the hours and seconds of life’s bliss.

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Thursday, August 12, 2010

The Cork Tree

My dear please stay near

Don’t wander too far

Only your keystone may

Interpret stanzas and bars

Holding a place

A grid glowing space

Charging one thousand atoms

Magnifying thoughts fathomed

From afar

With streaks of the stars

Aligned in chase

Moving such grace

Planets coincide

Beaming their pride

Illustrious glow

Molding life down below

Even a two step

A waltz and a gown

Your dress painted stars

Lights near your crown

The only twinkle resounding

From the eyes of the candles

Your thoughts and your ideas

From the chandelier dangle

The ringing of toasts

A celebration near

Corks shooting angels

Soaring through air

Drinking in moments

A momentous gamble

Drunk or sober

I love you

And your pink sandal.

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Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Second Life

A quiet rolls in on the eastern front

Bellowing smoke and clouds slowly consuming sky

A mixture of drunk heat and weariness casts a spell

A heady high of cold remorse anger and hunger

Upon the shore the men and women brace for impact

Necks lashing forward in a fraction of a second

Recoiling for seconds after impact at the eye

There is a calm and a repulsion knocks senses back

The front end damage vivid

The wastes of the rear sighting dilemma

A shining sight this travesty of a second lifetime

At least none are hurt.

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Revel

I miss you the most

When I can hardly breath

Inhaling a bit to suffocate need

I hear you in voices that tend to trail

Like the copper leaves of autumn filling the air

As everything turns to golden and brown

I miss you with the cool wind placed on my brow

Inhaling the slow cooling breath of summers seer'

I miss you like branches shedding their cares

Caring for you is a thoughtless sweet crime

Locking me up between cold and warm shine

Crunching my hard feet patter on ground

Lifting my eyes your thoughts lifting my frown

Caressing both need and the mind

Pushing me forward through hardship through time

Placing me precariously presenting me too

Shooting ideas off and inspiring you

Looking around I see your small flights

Understanding much not daring the fight

The heat of the Sun has made things quite right

The Seraphs continue to revel in light.

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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Clara

Laying like hazardous waste on the floor

Decaying half life carbon dating restored

Amplify magic to see what’s in store

Beneath my bare feet wine cellars galore

Rusted screw in my brain removing knowledge

You give me a thought hidden in homage

You are the one secret I never had sold

The gift stuck with me till Heaven’s untold

I approved the Dna signature matching your own

As I watched you balance two feet on dark stone

Only us three stole away from that night

I the lucky gentlemen we both held your flight

Even so careless for days we had lasted

Fury and passion ignited and fastened

I balanced a football between shards of glass

You witnessed from sidelines praying with gasps

I think that’s when I knew you’d be my downfall

It took years for you to even answer my call

Still we do talk behind blurred lines

Your school was art

My school was mind

And darling before any

Know it was you

Who destroyed my element ego

Yet fixed me anew

They’ll never know a name

Only your goddess design

A drink mixed with fantasy

So refreshing so kind.

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Breakdown

Dimensions untold

Truth is I'll have to get back to you

Realizing your form

This is probably just a game for you too

So secret so firm

I'll bend the will

Break the blue

A shocking resolve

Dissolving every bit you thought you knew

So say I want you

Exactly like your used too

I'll be content in breaking you down

Diving so fast your head spins around

And when I want you

Please say I want too

Darling I am only attempting to show you

Breaking down

The new girl with thrills

Shipping all the fellows too soon

Anchored in love

Love has an opposite too

Saying I want you

All the ways we could do

Yeah I think I'll enjoy this little bit

This breaking down.

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