Stringing thru the desiccated Never existing high desert Zephyrs left behind by an Incessant gulf fury Pushed beyond the Eagle’s pass Passed out and stuck in between Jalisco and Mazatlan Nary a place with publishitty Subsisting in a sunbathed Mountain on hail stone and Broken wooden steps Meant to bend the ankles Lost in Mexico But I found my Right to murder The emaciated materialism That clogged the arteries In my brain I found my voice In broken Spanish And tarnished Alertness on Only two hours Of sleep in over Two years Peace in torpor Like wild flowers That found color In a drought If epic proportions
This rolling view of scattered crossroads Hidden creeks, cicadas hiding on Charcoal dark beige bark Not a scatter of discontent Nor the tattered focuses Just the void The space needs to unpack Lost memories like a tumbleweed Desire to return to something Already engulfed by the black hole Of time when the tides’ pull Softened your lips When your were too warm To shiver I think of that and your sapphire stare Giving light A darkness And the night a frozen glow Where the sun fainted into Tomorrow if I could borrow That fervor and braver Into my next chapter Of a closed book Baked away by Derelict A misfit second hand Broken ticks And exploding tocks I walk on Into time And its patient Revelry a-rambling The days like a shredder To unread letters
When you can’t hold yourself From jumping off of the ledge Into chaos burn out True hex Chores and impatience The wrong flop The wrong moment of decision The ghost of content Replaced by the malice In a hell bent on Self destruct
Like the Roll of Dice by delliversagain, literature
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Like the Roll of Dice
Who knows what put me here Gravity’s master plan Tying me into this bind Like underneath the kitchen tiles With red worms squirming And cold soil negotiating The wind chill factor This noise excuses me Me of my sorrows And executes me As I see no lights At the horizon line Just flakes and dust And sting rays The sun’s crooked Fingers blocking me Thoughts telling Me who is in control And to let go The words That dissolve On my tongue The aura Is the only Magic trick Left to perform
How can I fly? Wired to bones, avenues of veins And coagulated brains? Feet tied to nails Armpits drenched in sweat And a memory that cannot forget What map is there When where I want to go Is bit part here and the caffe over there Next to the market selling courgettes In Chelsea But in harmony in the Bay Hill evergreen fog Surrounded by rosemary and lavender growths A crimson cloak of cool air The glitz of lights when today might Be tonight Buy a love today Bankrupt lonely tomorrow Until hail rolls off the tongue tip Hipster longing Sensitive solemn gestures Docked between two paths in a marriage Of failures and forevers
Melancholic longing As if you hated yourself For not vanishing And when you fell My heart felt The paradox of your problem I washed my hands As the flag went up And in your eyes I am a dreamer Your eyes like Little stars As your dawn Faded And when the wind Turns the into the alley ways And Joliet shadows Water colors the night We’ll all be ghosts Celebrating the next dance
Sister let me confide to you Haloes behind you like You are lady liberty We never conversed But I saw you fade to dust In this tunnel dripping with fog And lacking light Shooting the breeze Like a High School tragedy Forward me to the back That alley in between Discreet and concerned Where the reflections Off pine cone moss Spell out Vitamin Deficiencies Sister you tried to live with me Sister I tried too so hard To keep you alive But my loneliness Spelled me As if witches New my name
The white carpet sides of streets And the mist floating from my exhales Amongst the Hillies and back and Forth across the Merrimack The air kissed me with each distant step And academy candle pins and stale Warm air, bottled lagers with Old fashioned screw tops The brick buildings like black Coal tiles in the shadows of eve The company the hums In between each breath The footsteps by the Winnekenni Castle still etched.
Yesterday#8217s Sun Rays by delliversagain, literature
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Yesterday#8217s Sun Rays
Maybe I could wash away Or maybe you’re just jealous That the tea didn’t keep The belly warm And the heart became Broken trails of crystal From a glass half empty Maybe we never crossed Paths in Belfast Maybe the chimes from The cathedral meant To be Heaven’s last call
You Tried to Help Me by delliversagain, literature
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You Tried to Help Me
You saw me broken And your sparkles spoken Like an adrenaline touch Electrified my skin And as I was dying You were keeping me alive Despite your lack of bandwidth You knew I was alive in the soul If your eyes hanging for survival You tried you best While time laid me to rest
I arrived at a Carnage Convention Lives knocked down like Dominoes Tormented, shocked, awed Was given the job of the count There were customized ringtones and blippity textones Endless as if the dead Lived in the heart beat of someone's Fingers on the other edge of that cellular Connection It broke me It hurt me It haunted me As the neon lit parking lot Bled into darkness Acrid smoke still lingering Like imaginary jellyfish Man made mist in the air The only light left A light void of life
Along the map of your arms And the pictures that floated In your mind Reminds me, takes the wind In that cloud blessed cracked Concrete tunnel bending an ant pilgrimage, Salt and pepper zephyr Her eyes looked watery As she defiantly flicked Us off and you were The one Just you, Showing me rainbows in a Murky, muddy creek And in the overcast you Disappeared into you glow Making the biting fog Scratch away the itches And the cheek you kissed Still blushing to this day Like a bridge to decades Ago Taking me to Tulsa And you shook my hand By listening to me And you accepted me By giving me time You knew you never had And in your atheist aura I find myself in the pews Sun rays, stiletto beams That tells me to find A god to give my Kiss of life to touch Your lost burnt soul The hammer that will Place your faltering heart In the sky only humbling An unforgiving star hiding in the Night amid the menagerie Of dots like spots Like the poetry you Spoke in the gentle Timbre of your shy voice And the likeable lines Of your irresistible soft Cheeks
You paraded into my office Shades, hiding your grays Bling, fading your blues Your groove more than the Murray River I followed you without a life jacket, you covered me in honey drizzles epoxying the world within the lines of visions of all who felt your light I saw you from the exit stage right, I felt like the curtains bound by your ultraviolet smile, movements of a night that could never be trapped, yet color ranges and stranger shifts of time, as if I was always at my funeral, indifferent and floating on the tears of those who remembered to pay me their respects as I am fiddling like a note that never remembered to unsustain
To become God and unseen by those you love And read the stories told by those who learned from your mistakes and benefitted from your visions To walk on South 18th St and hear leaves scratching asphalt and muted ten ton 8 rubber screeching debates by tapping steering wheels reflecting on how it burns a scarlet fury amid gelid maples naked of their garments sold to changing times and bellicose rhymes here's to looking in from the outside and from the outside in a vault with windows but without senses to fall like the leaves and be frozen in the sewer making every wrinkle turn to feathered silk again or a cotton candy grin
The Only Poet's Regret by delliversagain, literature
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The Only Poet's Regret
Yesterday, I let go of you you were wandering in my mind, playing my lover and oh you were so kind You even looked me in the eye and I thought of how much strength it took, and how you never realized how much power it took for me not to caress you and tell you how my yesterdays are shadows eclipsed by the loneliness before I was touched by your flicker sparked my heart was pushing me outside of my shyness and it must of looked like I was on a roof, aloof I looked at the stitches on my soul you did your job you healer and now I am more broken than ever
The Other In the Moment Me by delliversagain, literature
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The Other In the Moment Me
Yesterday was kissed by blue skies Vast beyond my horizon And the smell of wet leaves Mixed with cold petrol city Noise, You were wrapped up asleep still in the present tense of your dreams I was lost outside of my daydreams Thinking about the crumpled papers on the ground, and the chattering of some new language invented by two youngsters Here we are in balance headed toward the storm of stale, sterile paper dessicated offices as the air outside holds a piece of our souls to feed to the wings of the scattering crows
She was my naive Runaway sunset with a pearl smile and porcelain legs I begged her to stop but she felt sexy when she told others about how I was her Fiancee It made her feel cultured and mature and in her manicured tones and yellow poppy smile that scooped up all the light's attention, she took away my heart every time her lips trembled when she knew she let me down
Lost But Almost Found by delliversagain, literature
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Lost But Almost Found
Silly chalkboard messages Next to a shell as I felt your Presence in Jonesboro's Humidity and our shared Timidity might have made Dollar General's lights flicker and the freckles on the red haired lady cashier revolved as she blinked her eyes, I tried to hold on to you and your town but was flushed away by time as Harrisburg Road spat my dreams onto the telephone shadows while I was pulled north to Jefferson City, I kissed the muggy clouds above me and wondered if your cheek trembled the moment I left you.
'Twas the beginning of May Just like any other day, Mustered men with wives and their children gathering on a street in South Memphis 'Cuz they were different the city bureaucrat hollered for the shamrock cops to ruin their wine flow with musket bollard Led by Officer Finn Who shot at them and hit his shin and turned his debacle lie into an Irish vs Black man rally cry as something as to be done while officer Finn died For the the next three days The lies spread like fire to a pyre of lucky charm flies turning the Southern side black shanty town into a sunrise deconstruction from the battle puddles of post war reconstruction Today the tensions still weigh heavy only quelled by their hospitality levee A dull have in Whitehaven As ghosts say "boo!" From the voices of today's children living and grooving as away today continues movin'
The Woman from Gig Harbor by delliversagain, literature
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The Woman from Gig Harbor
She had marzipan lips and trapped herself in a Cul-de-Sac Not far from I a Lakeport Boy who climbed on white wood play bars and stared into circular roads precariously rounding and elevated cliff Yet the rain touched our llips in California You and your 4th floor smile Calling me by my name as if I were famous you spun me in your Virgo daze and one our passion play began I sang aloud a tune your way and we drowned in the Tacoma sounds I will remember you when heaven grips me and I'm forced to choose who I want you to be to me when one day our memories will by side to side, seeded ornaments on a forgotten 2,000 year old ghost tree.
Post sunlit,
tall, another,
darkness,
bright in vibe,
blind of wrong
Even now, in dim,
wine rains in glass,
goulash, orange fangs smirk.
below knotted cloves of garlic.
embedded in simmering miss,
condolence candles and other
chugs of nonchalance.
On a little hill,
tombs and sprain stone,
time bruises monotone, memory bombs,
shadow maps, and liver damage.
Oceans dialogue ironing the cacophony night away
with chatter or the clutter of broken scenery,
far, away, shuttered in 3am gallow breezes.
Diminishing, disappearing fiery finger
flying from the space of
Thanks for all your edit comments. Read them like they aren’t there. I would make the edits if this application made that a simple task. Ok, that’s off my chest. See you all in eternity!!!
Next February 2024, I’ll be in the UK. Aberdeen to Newcastle to Preston to Liverpool to Wrexham down to Cardiff to Forest of Dean to Norwich down to Ipswich and finally on a train to London to spend 3-4 days before heading home. April 2024, I hope to be in the path of the next total solar eclipse. That will be nice. Just got back from Tokyo. Was there last month soaking in the pink of cherry blossoms along Meguro. I feel my writer’s block drifting away. Many thanks to Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer and my new medicine: Coffee, a cheap breakfast sandwich, a very strong, highly concentrated energy drink, a glass of Everclear and Sprite with a lot of ice, drunk gradually along roads connecting Southern Illinois and Kentucky. Much love to you all! May success never find us all!
Lately, I'm sure, the millions of readers out there who read my poetry have noticed a shift. Less emotional and more descriptive. I've always had this habit of google mapping and traveling through cities from my computer as if I were there, walking about. A lot of my recent poetry has been inspired by things I've read, stories I've heard, and experiences I've lived through and then, sometimes, going to the physical spots of these concepts on Google maps and writing my poetry with that Google map imagery staring at me. It's opened my mind and has given me poetic momentum for the first time since the early days here in 2001-2003 when my friends here were like muses to me when this medium was more social than it is now where DA seems to have shifted the focus in order to stimulate monetary gain. Every good medium gets ruined by monetary gain, sad to say. But at least I am still here trudging away as I've always been. Over here in Northern California, it seems as if the Misfits of