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July 7, 2008 - Monday
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--- For ALL Online Poets ---
Category: Writing and Poetry
Poets who aren't read
aren't dead,
but what of the world around them?
Words let us live,
but instead
they only abandon
Paper littered casually all
over the floor
could've been read-
adored or…
abhorred
Either way,
inspiration is
dead on the floor---
suffocated, strangled, strangely ignored
Satisfied, the poets
have taken what God
has given them,
and driven them, and
striven facades
Only for themselves
placed on the shelves---
selfishly, fearfully,
all for themselves
And no, they're not dead, and
their poetry's read
Alone in a room, they're forgiven
With poetry piled up
under their bed,
the poet is always livin'
Poetic scrolls
found in their souls,
abandoning all they are bound in
Poetic souls were
given their scrolls,
but what of the world around them?
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July 1, 2008 - Tuesday
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//i// learned from a very wise fool
Category: Writing and Poetry
The Ten Things I've Learned from Wise Men and Fools
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June 29, 2008 - Sunday
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in love with the ocean
Category: Writing and Poetry
I thought I had
an ocean.
I thought I had emotion.
I thought I had
more than just
a puddle in my hand.
I thought it couldn't
find me.
I thought it couldn't blind me.
But loving you
must be
part of the plan.
I'm not a man…
I'm just a fool
in love
with a fool
who's never gonna
love me.
I thought it was
devotion.
I thought it was an ocean.
But devotion's just a drop
of rain
that fell, and not
a flood.
I thought I was an ocean.
I thought I was the sea,
but little did I know
I've never been…
what you are to me.
I'm just a tear you'd see
eventually…
before you'd ever blink.
Perhaps,
the sweat upon your brow
you'd wipe
off before you'd think.
And still all I know
is…
you're the ocean to me.
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June 24, 2008 - Tuesday
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//ii// learned from a couple of fools
Category: Writing and Poetry
The Ten Things I've Learned from Wise Men and Fools
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June 21, 2008 - Saturday
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Bird Watching
Category: Writing and Poetry
In a birdcage the size of the world,
we still aren't free
I've heard a bird singing, ♫Perhaps…
this
is close enough…♫
Finally, I understood
the phrases…
Bird-brained.
Pigeonholed.
Never merely words to one as I
[Hawkeyed
is what I strive to be]
as
cockeyed, they strive to see
from a birdcage
the size of the world
Well…
perhaps,
eventually…
But for now to see
the swallow
swallow its pride
and keep it all inside,
then let it digest
instead of hide---
would be the key.
The key's---
not in
our wings,
but in our minds
[Any fool can fly]
while steel bars
are only unbreakable…
for one who never tries
Alone it seems
I've flown
through oh so many things
Never realized…
the truth, but the truth
of everything
is that I've never really
known why
the caged bird sings.
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June 16, 2008 - Monday
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//iii// learned from a naive sage
Category: Writing and Poetry
The Ten Things I've Learned from Wise Men and Fools
<<< Chapter 2
Chapter 4 >>>
The Ten Things I've learned from Wise Men and Fools
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June 14, 2008 - Saturday
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DIABETES
Category: Writing and Poetry
Diabetes
Die within
a lifetime.
Be within a way.
Teaspoons of cinnamon…
everyday.
In every little way,
a day
can mean a lifetime,
especially when it's
takin' life away.
Every single day
It's
in my jeans, they say
[In my genes
or in my jeans?
What's the difference anyway…
when the denim
of my whole
slowly fades away?]
Every single day…
in every
single way,
a damaged, little cell
incarcerates my soul,
ironically excluding
everybody else.
I…
keep it to myself
I…
keep it on the shelf-
insulin, syringed.
Coursing
in their vain
while
coursing through my veins
Wishing
it would rain…
within a wall
of skin
But all I do
is let…
everything within
Then everything begins
in dryness
and its course
Through all
I do,
isletted cells
are the most
secreted source;
while the most defeated course
of action
is to breathe
We all die
the more we do it,
but still
I breathe eventually
Because I know
the more I breathe,
the more I have control
of the bitter
of the sweetness
within my heart
and soul.
http://www.diabetes.org/about-diabetes.jsp
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June 10, 2008 - Tuesday
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//iv// wisely learned from possibility
Category: Writing and Poetry
The Ten Things I've Learned from Wise Men and Fools
"The Multifaceted Nature of Rope" collab., Sanders & Barnhart, 12 April 2007
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June 5, 2008 - Thursday
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THE GROUND
Category: Writing and Poetry
The Ground
I'd kill
to be anything
that could reach
beyond this earth
Given divinity…
while hell
is all it's worth
I'm the ground,
I've found…
as all are lookin' down
But to see them
I have to look
upon the sky
And so I feel…
the name of a wise man
scrawled upon
my back
He thought he was wise,
but I remembered…
that time remembers
everyone…
in spite of
how
we lack
Cemented names,
ashamed…
imprinted
on my back
are nothing but
a time…
and a sweet and
lonely fact
that all we'd do
is anything
to get
a bit
of our time back
"This might as well
be hell", I'd yell,
but my voice
would only
crack
Now I feel…
the cane of a blind man
scratch
upon my skin
And still while being
caned
by him
(and many other men),
I thought I'd rather
be myself
than to ever
be like them
I thought I'd rather
be myself
than to have to be like him
"This might as well
be hell", I'd yell,
but
no one's listening
hospital
on the corner
of my one
undying eye
All except its flames
would ever truly die
now there's gas upon that corner
worth more than
you and I
It's sold on every corner
'til the day we have
to die
And I'm
just the ground,
I've found
And tomorrow's
just a time
I see an old day
rising
in the corner
of my eye
I'm stepped upon,
spit upon,
dawned upon,
and drawn…
upon.
But that's never really changed
who I'm really meant
to be
So with gum upon my shoulder
and ash
upon my mind;
I know that I'm much older,
but I'm
just
a victim of our time
I'm the ground, they say
but me…
I call me "me"
alleyway, boulevard,
the dirt beneath our feet
Thrown upon
this cul-de-sac
Thrown upon
this place
A cigarette,
some ash,
some trash upon my face
I'm the ground,
I've found,
but this might as well be hell
I would tell ya what
I've seen,
but one can never tell
I'm an alabaster bastard,
marble in my bones
Lost…
Marble in my stones
Kids…
playin with my wits
with
marble in their homes
Lost…
upon my skin
Sanity akin…
to losing games
we never thought
we'd ever truly win
"This might as well be hell",
he'd yell---
a child only ten
Let me lose
or let me win,
but please
just
let it end
I'm the ground,
he'd pound…
in vain upon my skin
Litter me, literally,
as he overturned some bin
Woken up,
an indigent
swathed upon his gin
No chalk upon my walk
No outlines…
but again
This might as well be hell
as far as
anyone can tell
Vagabond
strewed upon
my curb, upon my skin
Disturbed by all his gin,
slurred, he said
again
"This might as well be hell",
but none
were listening
I'm the ground,
he's found
his eyes
upon my street
alleyway, boulevard,
the dirt beneath his feet
But never did he look
at me
deigned
or with disgust
We only looked
upon the sky,
as none
were low as us
And so we feel…
the name
of a wise man…
scrawled upon
our back
But
will time remember
all of us…
in spite of
how
we lack?
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June 2, 2008 - Monday
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//v// learned from a pandering fool
Category: Writing and Poetry
The Ten Things I've Learned from Wise Men and Fools
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May 26, 2008 - Monday
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//vi// learned from a foolish wise man who only smiled when he had to
Category: Writing and Poetry
The Ten Things I've Learned from Wise Men and Fools
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May 19, 2008 - Monday
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//vii// wisely learned from a stubborn old man
Category: Writing and Poetry
The Ten Things I've Learned from Wise Men and Fools
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May 12, 2008 - Monday
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//viii// learned from myself, the biggest fool of ‘em all
Category: Writing and Poetry
The Ten Things I've Learned from Wise Men and Fools
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May 5, 2008 - Monday
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//ix// learned through a few of the saddest, wisest nights
Category: Writing and Poetry
The Ten Things I've Learned from Wise Men and Fools
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April 28, 2008 - Monday
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//x// learned from a foolish girl who just got dumped
Category: Writing and Poetry
The Ten Things I've learned from Wise Men and Fools
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