We need . . .

the stress, the strain, the obstacle to breach, the winters and the rain, torrents of pain.  So maybe we're about to get what we need.

To Kiss and Tell . . .

rolls real well
along the seam
that seals my mind.
But instant thoughts
like kisses soft
and lips that loft
rush fools into kisses that tell far too well,
that instant thoughts can have lasting
effect
on those who’s minds let kisses dwell . . .

Like Cats

Intertwined
Or puppy dogs tumbled alltogether,

You and I
share cares (bare) on this bed.
In and Out
Your breath and mine,
Like thoughts laced with wine or
Sunlight through vines.

Just then, when I stood next to you,
It took all my pacifism
To not reach out and touch you.
Now I sit here on the edge
Of war wondering why I didn’t.

Wait.
I did.
I reached out and stroked your face.
Just my body
Stayed in place. Now, . . .

Night and I are dark inside.
The moon and you
A rising tide.
This life (and the rest) too light.
Night and I,
We must hold tight.

TAXES . . .

They say death and taxes are the only two things you can’t avoid.

There’s a finality there that is hard to ignore.

A sense of dying already let in the door.

But what if you want to deny this truth?

What if you wanted nothing, and needed less? Would governments be

Satisfied without redress?

Somewhere out there on the edge, where the sky meets the earth, where

Birds fly and the unknown still lies like a sea serpent looking for dinner,

We look to find our salvation.

An eternal spring, a new life form that when wedded with ours will create an

Everlasting, always young, new humankind.

And I wonder, could we do that without changing, rearranging our current

Universe. Or would this change like some domino exhibit collapse us all

Into

Some black hole that is worse than death and . . . taxes.

Making sense

is what we do
2 plus 2 and blue is blue.
Still, when I love you’s the deal
making sense is so untrue.
Human insight messed by love
Scrambles thought waves
like a ball struck dove.
Making sense don’t make me laugh.
To be alive is a constant thrash.
She says, I say
Come on Babe,

Trust me , I’m your slave.
Making sense don’t be a fool
All it does is leave you screwed.

Rethinking a poem

Every girl I ever knew
reminds me
of every girl I ever knew.
Same soft
Same light
Same waiting every night
Same body
               soul
Same end
               hole
and

Every man
            dancing eyes
            little boy sighs
           just one of the guys
           stroking the same
totem’s pole.

This poem came out of my brain some time in the early 80's I think.  And while I believe it's meaning perfectly clear some friends and poets suggested maybe I could further elucidate why a person in the 80's should feel so objectified.  So,


The Same . . .

He thinks,

Why is it that
Every girl I ever knew
Reminds  me of
Every girl I ever knew?
Same soft
Same light
Same waiting every night
Same body
          soul
Same end
          hole

And she thinks,

Why is it that every man
Reminds me of
Every man I've ever known,
   Same dancing eyes
   little boy sighs
   Same just one of the guys
   stroking his
   totem pole.

And then they both say
            at
The same time

the same words they always say . . .


Well, that doesn't make things clearer to me, it makes it a different poem.

Well

Well, well well well.  Here I sit in blogger hell no longer sure the mechanismismo is, well, working.
 But lurking in my own shadow
I see a shimmering glimmering of hope amidst a sea of doubt.

A life raft, a last straw not about to break.

Too late?  Hope       not the knot            it used to be.