Unison: A Poem for the Tamuse
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She walked with a carefree bounce
Smiling in the face of uncertainty
Unaware of tomorrow's transitional misery
A fledgling soul untainted
Never conceiving darkness could consume
Every facet of her being
And one day she was reminded of the child
Who never doubted the promise of bliss
Until she fell prey to cold reality
And went cascading down
Unable to remember the innocent girl
Rolling her ankles with ribbons in her hair
Tolerance
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Encapsulated muse
Released in small doses
My tolerance grows
Surpassing the previous threshold
No longer satiated by single pills!
Amulet
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There's no indemnity
Life is a venture at best
I'm willing to unmask
To quell your uncertainties
Fully intent on feeding our fusion
Unafraid in light of darkening skies
This buffoon prattles from memory
Far from improvised!
The Canvas (For Zilya)
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The painter's canvas
Has a face of sarcasm
He remembers her in an eerie sequence
But she was never there
He sits beside the pier
Salty air
Cocoa butter
Lemons
Perfume
Aroused by swirling pheromones
Squinting
Burning
Crackers
Bread crumbs
Birds encircling him
In a feeding frenzy
Violent gusts of sand
The tingling of vulnerable skin
He traces her face with his fingertips
And is five-years-old again
A frail boy floats face-down
And a man hurls himself from the pier
We are too soon beset
With a riptide's debt
The boy's father screams
I close my eyes
But it's not over yet
The boy is naked
Pale
And blue
His father holds his lifeless body
And stares into the sky
Screaming madly
A voice echoes for deaf ears
Then wrists are slit for indifferent gods
And someone says a prayer
It's nine o' clock
The tide is high
I'm sitting in water
Staring at my face of bliss
It's a huge yellow sun smeared across the sky
And not surprisingly
I'm left with nothingness!
Humility
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I stand as my thoughts go awry
This station (uncaser) is tedious
Mind-numbing
So I travel the mind
Revisiting forgotten ventures
Searching for something I'll never find
Existing idly
Trampling the sublime
I hate time!
The monotony
Heedless words uttered
Over roaring machines
Bat insignia
Crooked and hanging
Spiral conveyors swirl into the sky
Bottles clanging
Breathing through shards of glass
Dust mites
And an altered reality
Confronting invisible strangers
Hello
Goodbye
safety
danger
Who is it
Empty cases encircle the whisperer
Who is resigned to sedentary-sighs
A hundred crumbling empires exist behind his eyes
Sometimes wishing life would pass him by
And the moment would inspire something of substance
I hope
Tomorrow
WAIT!
THERE'S BEEN A CRASH!!
Now the listless operator
Sweeps glass like a humble janitor
With no reason to hurry
Normalcy
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Normalcy
An empty notion that pervades society
Reality for me
Could be fantasy for you
And vice versa
Delusional people
Are sometimes not so deluded
Now
Who's afraid to release control
Heart
Body
Soul
Deficient proportions
Mean absolutely nothing
To the heedless whisperer
Who has fallen like countless stars
Capitulate
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he hammers PVC into the ground
as a ship passes in the night
swallowing enough river
to change the tide
and the moon glows
where the baitfish run
swatting at mosquitoes
waiting for his pole to bend!
Euphoric Connectedness
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amorous strangers
unbound friends
connected by a split-second gaze
steal each other
in uninhibited dreams
only to awaken
feeling small
and unbelievably cold
confined to a mind
wondering what may have been
Tainted hearts
And irreverent souls
Make-do ties
Imbeciles assuaged by laughter!
Out!
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The mire of uncertainty
Is this where you stand?
Is it the quagmire of somber Sunday?
Resolved to racing thoughts
And trembling hands
A bird in a sanctuary
You must release
I'll ramble forever
With a piercing voice
That renders you insane
Because I'll never be okay
Beneath shadows of gray
There's no more pain
No reason to go away
So stay
No joke
Or trivial games
With a single utterance
And a thousand echoes
My voice delivers your name
We'll never be the same
Paint us again
With fiery colors
Or better yet
Swirling immaculate hues
I'm an absent-minded buffoon
Sitting near the edge of reality
Unison
Survival
Love
You
Time is in
I must out
Over
And
over
again!
Leftover Souls
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We're Truthfully Pathetic
Measly moments
Questioning signs
Fate versus randomness
Proactive pretenders
Heedless words echo
Alone in semi-connected minds
Witnessing everything
Or utterly blind
Two leftover souls
Abstract
Construct
Lukewarm hearts
Murmuring
Racing
Avoiding
Replacing
Equally free
Warm and glowing
Cold and shadowy
Swirling in darkness
Envision anything but bliss
Meager creatures
Counterfeit friends
Tactless communication
Laughing away the pain
Wallowing in humiliation
We live again!
Paper Dolls Shaded Green
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There will be no blackened trees
No charred remains
Void of smoldering coals
No five-year plan
No consolidation
Or cohesion of goals
Only four unclasped hands
Screaming futility
Hand-puppets
Shadows
Facades
Unreality
Too eager to be wise
No more gelatin brains
Or cosmic ooze
Will roll from their eyes
Simple lies
Uttered with tactfulness
And aplomb
A vision in the clouds
The solon meets the finite sky
Empowered
So high
No ruins
No chimney debris
The improbable expansion of clueless tiers
Ample increments of sadness
Counterfeit discipline
And wasted years
Two sticks rubbed together
Long enough to spark an inferno
Of towering flames
Yet perforated paper dolls
Remain uncut
And UNCHANGED!
The Summit
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Existence is a conundrum
Not soon deciphered by our finite minds
And somewhere a whisperer screams your name
and waits for you to hear a silent echo
A nocturnal release
A sun-warmed embrace
An internal witness of gradual unification
Eventually igniting an unrelenting madness
Beneath the summit
Intangible in light of indemnities
