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playing bongos is a 80 year old from Congo.
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Still ocasionally thumbing, but not posting. There are 365 poems here posted from the time before. Hope you like them.

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Nov 6, 2005 2:13pm
# 365

    R I P

    Have you heard?
    The poet is dead.
    Silenced in descent
    Of crouching night.
    Forgotten now
    By mortal winds
    And things that speak
    To breathless souls
    Or hearts entwined,
    Out amongst
    The nebulae.
    But don't be sad
    For errant voice,
    No longer felt
    And whisper still.
    Thoughts, are such
    Temporary things.
    When you hear
    This poet is dead -
    Carve some words
    In stone.


Oct 28, 2005 3:55pm
# 364

    T h e   W o r d s   D o n ' t   W o r k .

    Words
    are a waste of time -
    they've certainly occupied
    too much of mine.
    Shouting like pushy folk in line
    from A to Z, demanding attention
    in fray with clatterered heels
    and sullied cries,
    bold suggestions -
    like Jazz sax strayed
    too far from melody.
    But it's not I don't enjoy
    their crowded company.
    No, far from it, I do -
    I truly do and always will.
    Where would I be
    without our dialogue?
    And beauty, and wonder
    and other joys?
    It's just ... I begrudge
    the mechanics of these things -
    these *words*.
    They just can't resist
    trying to sneak their influence
    beyond what I really want to say.
    Words come with baggage you see.
    What I think, what I write,
    and what I speak -
    it all gets ransomed by
    dragging needs to express
    and be understood,
    to offer degrees of meaning.
    In reality though,
    not, the real me.



Oct 27, 2005 3:53pm
# 363

    G e o l o g y .

    It was
    always you.
    Blue quartz seamed,
    and running through
    this solid stone of I.
    And so behest was knock'd fate
    with moon-tugged nights
    and stullied appetite for winds
    that never blew.
    Time-tumbled,
    on the greystone shore,
    laid down the sighing churn -
    locked me in with eon's hold
    of elemental bores.
    And so I yearned,
    and so I yielded.
    And so I found.
    And then I knew.
    It was always,
    you.


Oct 19, 2005 2:30pm
# 362

    F a t h e r .

    Every day I kick myself.
    Is this laughter really mine?
    Loud like bad played notes
    on a cheap plastic horn.
    But I am so proud.

    And the stories they tell,
    and the pictures they show -
    ah, such wonder!

    How did this occur?
    There is no weariness now.
    Suddenly I am, Superman -
    jumping and giggling into life,
    clamouring too with love.


Oct 17, 2005 12:34pm
# 361

    T h o s e   W h o   W a i t .

    Stilled am I in lull of night
    No ocean's move save salted spite
    And where go I in loose-rigged winds?
    No bounding heave, no push and cleave,
    No rising line or white-mane minds.
    All quietened like the muted damned,
    Horizon-fixed with tar glued stares
    Through eyes that blaspheme stars,
    And with curses for a speechless sea
    And the stolen shore yet far way.
    I lie silent, waiting and becalmed.
    Just these thoughts for company.
    Oh take me home to those,
    that wait for me.


Oct 11, 2005 4:00pm
# 360

    S u c c o u r   P u n c h .

    When
    you were born
    I didn't cry.
    I was struck dumb -
    could not describe
    the feelings felt
    for you.
    Immediate,
    like electricity
    running through
    my restless back
    and flooding in
    my empty head,
    my vacuum heart.
    Something,
    switching on
    deep inside
    and bewitching
    with delight,
    and sparks
    of life -
    lightening
    my soul.
    But not,
    like raptured
    passion's flame
    or glowing ember's
    warm embrace,
    nor kinship
    of years
    or kindly smiles
    from journeys
    shared.
    No,
    this feeling ...
    It was Instant.
    It was Persistent.
    It was Beautiful.
    And I'll never forget,
    and I cannot escape,
    and still cannot describe
    beyond mere love
    and loving
    you.



Oct 10, 2005 3:37pm
# 359

    W i s h e s.

    May whatever you do, be better than what you've done,
    Reclaimed from hard-drudged hours, like distilled time.
    Where dreams are hoist with steadfast will and laughter peels
    Against the hollow cry of pitied fate that follows all but you.

    May you dare to run with winds, then leap the shadowed ground
    To whisper calls at stirring night, not feared of worried days.
    And you, who triumphs in the light will be joyous in the dew
    Beguiled and surprised to tell of truths, to likes of you and I.

    May you always stay temperate in the sluice of unkind rains,
    Bite parched tongues that rise to taste the bracken pall,
    Find blue opals in the darkest well of circumstance,
    And stretching, go beyond our normal mortal reach.

    And long may you embrace all things that you will learn
    And speak of such to those you know, and don't.
    May your breath be strong and full, and your songs be sung
    And leave a smile in mind for those you aim to teach.

    Oh may you hear amongst the shouts, the murmuring of souls -
    Seek wonders found in chance and call of happenstance,
    And understand the understandings you shall heed
    And then, may you recall these wishes left by me.


Oct 6, 2005 12:05pm
# 358

    T h a n k y o u .

    You had a glow about you
    amongst the harvest souls.
    Pin sharpened in the blur,
    like a gilded lion you spoke to me.
    Smiling, serene and standing proud -
    the one to notice in the crowd.
    No need to seek you out -
    you had a glow about you.
    And I heard (but did not hear)
    and I saw (but did not see)
    and then I knew.
    You, are
    mine.


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