What is flows along in its
secret channels.
Sometimes we are shallow and glib.
Other times we are in our deep element
and great banquet halls open before
us.
Then we realize we are the guest
of honor
and the beloved host.
Wanting you is something mysterious
like a day spent alone
wandering along a deserted shore,
wondering,
where did all these footprints come
from?
Make room for poetry
clear off your dressers
roll down the bedspreads
out with all those chatty books
and stale ideas
the magic words are about to begin
I won't be modest anymore
Our love has done away with all
that
I go around the neighborhood
whispering love secrets to strangers
I spraypaint your name
on every doorstep that welcomes
you
What I want is to taste again the
flower
that blooms at the base of your
spine.
We make things that never were
come back to life.
I thought my time had come to an
end
You set these hands back in motion
One word from you, just say it,
and all the doors of my heart fly
open
these silly love poems fuck them
yes silly
they'll keep you up the whole night
begging
for more
My love doesn't know how to be reasonable.
It goes banging its head against
the wall
of your absence. When you return,
you open
windows, and say, What a fine view
you've had
while I was gone. Did you miss me?
"Socrates....if you're serious....
won't human life have to be
turned completely upside-down."
- Plato
This is how I see it:
butterflies turn into caterpillars,
ants hatch into eggs,
rain pelts the clouds,
the north wind blows from the south,
chickens raid the fox's den,
ocean bass swallow pelicans,
cherries ripen into blossoms,
zebras hunt down lions,
the morning sun rises in the west,
flames burst into wood,
self portraits paint their painters,
rabbits pull magicians out of their
top hats,
horses ride their humans 'round
the
three ring circus,
clowns on tricycles break down and
really cry,
tigers crack their whips and
the ring master jumps through
one hoop of fire after another.
Friend, wake up,
and recognize your own life,
before somebody else has to do it
over again.
No place left to wander
but my own heart -
even that gate is closing
Everywhere I look is the same amazing
dawn
Dawn raises its cup to my lips
I won't stop drinking
until I'm drunk beyond recognition
I go on giving until I'm all used
up
There's a hundred more of me to
fill that one void
Don't think you've heard the last
of it,
just because I haven't spoken in
a month or two
find out but who to ask? which path to follow?
everywhere you look is the same bright mirror
Our eyes hear what the world has
to say to us
Our ears see what's out on the road
before us
Our feet get up in the middle of
the night
and take us places we've always
dreamed of
I'm drunk from this long looking into your eyes
I know these words aren't making any sense
Don't ask me how I got here,
or what we'll do when we get back
The clear energy flows where once
was sadness and grief
Something moves what was immovable
I've given up all that ambition
and dream
of being someone I'm not
the worlds go round and round our
passion's like that
each heart-spool ever unreeling
its one thread birth to death
to R. C.
It's not possible to go on like this
without you becoming part of me.
Your hair growing down to my shoulders.
My eyes seeing your face in the
mirror.
Your heart, once again, inside this
chest of mine.
I hunger and I thirst
and to see you
alone
satisfies me
for J.B.
My friend's ashes coarse and dusty
in my hand.
I pray for us both and toss part
of him
to the wind.
I lick my fingers clean.
In the morning the birds come
to eat and sing at the feeder.
If they knew what was in my heart,
they would not come so close by.
the heart so much horseshit
out of the muck one lotus blooms
pure white
it's nothing but grief now I chase
it away
it comes back on all fours I stroke
my grief and talk
to it sweetly as it sits in my lap
purring
I'm not the man I used to be make
no mistake
about it he's gone to his grave
good riddance
we won't see the likes of him again
Grateful, we give away everything
we've ever been.
A new life comes flying towards
us.
Don't close your eyes or turn away
from this,
no matter how much your hair stands
on end.
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