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details
saw a dancer
turn and twist her hips
before a saint lifted her away
legs extended
floating
above the saint’s sunshine rays
saw God in textbooks
and puddles in the rain
lightening strikes
we’re all right
in the warm comforters
there’s no story to tell
oh well
what’s to tell
impel me to focus
on the details
and there’ll be stories
but oh well
leaping from tree tops
swinging
and falling
through
atmosphere
splashing
in water
and
sinking
below
rising slowly
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form is everything
evidently evolutionarily obsessed
B-student English major
gets what he gets
what he don’t get
deflects from the fiery shield
held high by the guy
spending a third year in grad school
look out the window
sorta listen
and figure out something new
something novel
which mutates my poetry
to convey something in some new way
form is everything
when everything is everything
that’s why I wonder
what exactly is accomplished
when allowing alienation
to swift me in to a solitude few
who change one another
and a bit of a lover
then I recall
because growth is difficult
when dandelions confined
and intertwined
messianic miracles
cannot undertake
such sustainment of survival
when growth still occurs
the bloom and the bees
need a bit
later in the summer time
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ROAR
stand back
far enough
and sound slides smoothly
into one
stand back further
ROAR
More mighty than
any man
in any given land
all people are important
don’t kid yourself
when wisdom wants
one
more mighty roar
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the gospel choir
the gospel choir
said Jesus
didn’t it?
so much to say
about Jesus
that by last pray
Jesus didn’t have a say
but then the preacherman
raised up risen hands
and said listen in silence
and you will understand
when
you
hear
the
voice
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my elders
my elder
is a human being
no matter what
the spirits think
they put these
things
these things before me was me
and I run
here
and I run
back
not seeing from
high enough to
sea sea oh
how I’ve dreamed
for the gleam
because then I’d know
elders must be consulted
but not in control
I have a dream
I have a dream
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a shrew
a shrew
pops
his head out a hole
which is confusing considering
a hole
is not alienated
from the sky
no barrier
but the shrew
becomes more visible
to more of the world
and he scurries
along the plains
weaving through long blades
tickling tiny toes and legs
and the warmth
generated by generations
deriving from something so far away
it’s unfathomable
so
shrews don’t fathom
the space in every place
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Luna’s fairies
Luna’s fairies
knitted me into the who
woven within the womb
before bursting out
like Blake’s white-haired babe
becoming something
swiftly
swimming the sea in a tree
a vessel released to meet
angels always
with transparent wings
vivid outlines
context containing
camouflaged colors cover
the gold harps heard but not saw
not saw
not saw
not saw at all
no wall at all to stall the fall
over and over again
to rest on
a plate to be ate
fate
functions for a few ‘fore
I’m back to me again
as Bethlehem babies
make me think maybe
it could be done
the magi do not lie
if you open wide
to try
and the chariots on the backs
of spirits specifically spun
for me
arriving and driving
me wherever I wanna
go
go
go
go
go
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Babel
birthday candles build me up
like the tower of Babel
naysayer say a display
of pride it’s suicide
to want up that high
they said they said they said
God will change the language
of workers in your head
confusion and dissolution
melting in the sand
with waves of His hands
but here I stand
pile more on the land
the tower
isn’t for greatness
isn’t for fame
it’s to help humans
see the lamb’s flame
fueled by the lamb’s beady rain
holy holy melt that sin away
with whickers, flames, and beady rain
from the Lamb
that’s in His hands
which is why
the whole world in His hands
stands
on its own
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silhouettes
starshine and light
cropped up by the harvest moon
you get what you get
with dancing silhouettes
and a hill you
roll
roll
roll
down
until laying among millions of blades
bright lifeforms springing from darkness
blades an animal I own
swallows to ease her belly
of any pains that may
seep and creep more and more deep
hops atop the hill
see it still
as singing fills
and dances atop
the fear and far between Positives systems
orbited by neutrality and negativity
held in Its grasp
it hops atop and reaches me
the lovely sea I speak
back
up
up
up
the hill
where dancing silhouettes
get what they get
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awwwwwwwwwwwwe
open wide
breathe in the light
and say
awwwwwwwwwwwwe
it’s perfectly natural
to be a little scared
it’s perfectly natural
it’s worse than the sun
in pain when you perceive
instead of receiving
now the light’s leaving
and all done
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97.6
radio frequencies create delinquencies
what are you
tuning into?
maybe consideration
of energetic expension
in its direction
it’s funny who gets the power
primates’ pokerface
is their best possibility
next to memory
effort
all it requires is effort
and the drive
to find the time
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shake shake shake
the beats and rhyme
shake shake shake
the surroundings
vibrations gyrations
will clear those pictures
hangin’ by
string hung on a nail
if it moves enough
we’ll pounce forward
after it
the walls keep shakin’
objects keep breakin’
into itty-bitty pieces
pick and put
together the puzzle
but it
shake shake shake
and all pulled apart
when does it start
when does it start to make sense