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" two of a kind "     07/23/2003 12:45 am

our petals touched as the wind caressed our rippled edges and smooth centers
the bumblebee pollinated us and spread our nectar upon one another...once
and that is not anymore...not now
the sun warmed us in mid-day
the moon white-shadowed us
and made us glisten
the dew from the night air moistened
our rippled edges and smooth centers
once more again...and that too is not anymore
not now...and beyond that even
but..." it should be"
and beyond that even...damn it

 


" where does love go when it's gone"  07/23/2003 4:35am

you pink whitish purple ringed lily of mine
you shine from mellow golden sun hue
shadowed by the moon I am
a moon that dampens my soul
forces each breath of you i take
to be immersed in the labored thought of you
something in me wilts and falls to the ground
where I am dry coarse limp dull in colour not smooth and yet
think of you moist intoxicating from within your nectar center petals
i am orphaned from shine glistened emotional touch
of the souls we shared and bridges crossed
which seemed to span distances never before to have been reached
yet traveled crossed and yet more than that even accomplished much we did
fathoms of much and beyond that even we did

and now I see these petals of my lilies not open and not colour-brilliant
but leaf-browned and dead as they lay on the ground where I walk

 

"weekend oct. 2"-l.4--oct. 18, 92  sat/sun.5:00 am oct 22,/92

adrift the green glasses of falls coloured leaves
it is of you that the ebb tides smoothly roll
and begin to capture the tributaries of my dreams
your heart, the beating of it, strong, yet afraid
i feel the turmoil internal, that is your frame, within
and i listen......and i watch you, vigilantly
it is the smoothness of your skin
from which the early morning light
turns to yellow-mellow-melted-cream
and i am taken with a watchful eye, of you
back, i retreat into the internal beauty of you
and.......
and when you kiss my eyes that forces a calmness in me
............and you?
i am again taken beyond the beauty, colours, tides and 
whatever i imagined could have been, with you
and the tributaries of my dreams continue, of you, to flow

the petals among the stems of roses....blossom
with the sweet smell of the "nantucket rain"
breakers-surf-pounding our minds, the shore
and the deep tan/gray sands beneath our feet

"do you miss me" i hear far, you say
do you miss the mist of the "nantucket rain"
the roses of our thoughts, 
the gentleness that brings the calm, upon
the slow, but mounting sea winds 
forcing the breakers white
as they caress the shore
and all the thoughts that are severe with you
and again you ask....
"do you miss me".....

   

"in the wetness of death she kissed me"    june 17, 1991

in the mere wetness of death
she kissed me
from the blood which came
oozed alone from where her lips touched me
they did
blackened death surrounded the tender
flesh self from where deep she touched
air spoiled reddish purple "dew" dripped
each by each
reached
the floor from where i stood (brown and cracked)
captured cocoon webbed
unspoiled in the world of
childhood love (and cotton candy)
so very very deeply i was
blood spattered images of
memories
darkened blue red my dreams
forever
the kiss of death herself it was
as her face turned sideways to meet mine
and greet me that morning
my dreams of life flashed quickly
returned they did
to the nowhere from where they once came

"deepest far"   august 21, 1991 9:50pm

i was there
inside far from the deepest of far
even further than far
deeper and further than the deepest of far
further than the furthest....i was
the furthest from far is my mind now
beyond what even attempts to be far....
beyond all the beyond....i am that of the beyond
and i am taken from the furthest of myself 
and placed in the all of beyonds....
i am beyond what is known to me...
or what was ever known......i am beyond the known.....
i am the unknown; and far from that "even".......
i am "even"...even beyond what "even" could be even beyond
i am.......
i am in the moment.....the moment of truth....
beyond the moment and the truth.

 

 
"questions death"   june 20, 1991 1:30pm

my mind twists turns and encircles itself
questions:
is it the she death
is it she that is of death (near death)
is it the death of she
or is it more simply the death of me
the black veil of the she death: (will it prevail)
will it take me
will it rob me of my youthfulness my dreams
when the she death makes her fatal wound do i bleed
am i wet all over from the blood from my mother's womb
is the act of death in her room from her womb; are the memories
nothing more than the tomb of the room and the womb from where she took me: is it
and where do i return after the she death takes me
from where i was originally conceived; i doubt it
a new place where i have not been nor travelled in; i wonder
does the she death wet her lips with the blood spilled from
my wound and in turn kiss me with my own blood when 
she takes me, does she or does it happen that i, from my own wound and blood from my mouth, is who kisses her and thwarts her off.....and time is again on my side; is it?

 

"fear her" june 21, 1991 7:00pm


the phantom rises---takes "her" place 
sets herself deep in the fathoms of our places 
the real ghost place is fear: the panic to stand alone and face reality itself.
if we choose to live without her, then we live our lives without fear; in turn; we live positively, not negatively.
the world seems transparent; if that is so, then to overcome it, we should be able to step through it and create the fulfillment of life itself. the stubbornness is what causes us not to have miracles and does not allow the blossoms of spring to open up like flower petals thus, filling the air with our dew and fragrance. man is on the edge of madness, for he complicates life: where it is of total simplicity which he can not understand nor see and that alone is what destroys and defeats him. in the highest order of society it is this "fear of death," which is and becomes transformed into the "fear of life." from the womb which we were born life and death were synonymous.....either of which could have taken place; so then why is fear an affliction? if the world is our living womb, the womb of man, the total condition of birth, life and death, then why do we fear so?

 

"seized.2"   october 21, 1993 

it seized me, swept-wing backward, i was
i dared not look
hot my eyes were
lust primitive wild, fused
alone feeling, i wept out
madness i thought,
for thought is no where without mystery
suspiciously i looked about
a sound was made as i took a breath
and i was frightened
like fire the mind came on
might it not understand
the sun became motionless, dry shadowed
images black and blued my dreams
and in my dream i wept, profusely
and when i awoke my eyes not wet
just my soul dampened

 

“forgive me now please”  dec. 2002

forgive me now, please, won't you
at times more than not i leave myself
and alone i become
the mind and soul with in me tremble and twist-roll 
ebbing to the breakers oceans white forming the tides 
of the pain that i have caused you which haunts me
for i suffer from the purity that i no longer have
and lived a life time to preserve and now it all returns
to the dust from which it came
it is my misunderstanding, the pure faults of mine alone
the intolerance of me, the self indulgence of self of me and the unforgivable self centered self of mine
not to have answered 
and whispered
"yes......i love you"
forgive me now, please, won't you

 

 

“i have”   dec. 25, 2002 
 
i have been there, i have tasted it, i lived it
and now i am back
not sure how, but back from a hell
never before realized
my veins pumped, my mind tortured
my body beat, torn, and ready to collapse
because of what i have done to you 
and even more for what 
you have done to me
i took you, i made you bleed, before you did me
i cut you, before you cut me
quietly slow and steady, 
gently passionately and forcefully 
i drove that harden serrated blade 
steadily in to you, before you did me
i dropped you, before you dropped me
i watched your eyes struggle to see 
your last view
i felt the last breath and beat of you
before you did me
i felt the warmth of your inner self 
as i twisted my hand tight upward 
then sideways and gently, 
yet lovingly putting you to sleep 
as i felt you get limp cold, before you did me
forgive me that i did you
and you not me
for no one has given me an answer
so i am just asking now...why
for it was you and not i 

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