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Light a candle for yourself
My dreams never betrayed me
It was the daytime that I fought
Erasing words I did not say
Discarding others’ thoughts
You know a hand could never hope
to live without their arm
An arm never fights
without a hand to disarm
I dampened end of fingers
extinguished the ill-lit wick
But faith and hope lit another flame
Its scent won’t make us sick.
I know you must despise it
All my words and songs and stares
Like bitter herbs, resent the taste
But brings us heavenly wares.
Atmosphere
Seek not tangible work of hands
Bountiful good of lands
Seek not sweat of effort on brow
Milk and honey
sweet culture scent
brew ferment
Dew drop pure, nor lament
Seek not revelling aching
limb and ligament
Slaving till reckoning day
Clutching dear at.most.fear
Seek diligently
Hidden – heard and felt
In the realm of angels
A World within One self.
For this we silently slave
Driving apathy away
Drilling at walls that form
In thin air
Suspended in a thick
blanket of despair
That clouds the eyes
marks our stare
One name desires us,
pierces our side
He asks us ‘Do you dare?’
What we see here is
Swings and roundabouts
The universe
The sea
The atmosphere
Heaven declares the unseen
Seek
Fear not.
Dissolve
Drink in your smell
nestle into the folds
of your clothes
sweet angel’s breath
Your hands fit over
my face and erase
my worry lines
Mesmerized by those
eyes framed with lashes
my cares dissolve.
Master Stonemason
Amidst vineyards and streams
rickety bridges, burnt ridges
lies a stone pillar erect
Ebenezer, rock of help to protect
Teach, observe, promise to serve
no wicked intent or self-serving word
Mizpah, watchtower, amidst almond flower
The Master carves out his heritage dream
Gentle rest in valleys green
Shepherd’s wake from hilltop eye view
Finds source of springs to refresh and renew
Lest our wine-skins burst at their seams.
Image: William Mark Fisher painting – American Gallery WordPress
While you were sleeping..
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‘While you were sleeping you tossed you turned
You rolled your eyes as the world burned
The heavens fell the earth quaked
I thought you must be but you weren’t awake, no
You were dreaming you ignored the sun
You grew your power garden for your little ones
And you found brides for them on Christmas Eve
They hung young Cain from the Adam trees
And danced uh oh
While you were sleeping I tossed and I turned too
I closed my eyes but the future burned through
The planet turned a hair grey as I relived the day…
I’ll never catch up to you who sleep so sound
My yawns are useless my heart beats too loud
To go to sleep my mind’s too proud to bow out.’
Lyrics by Elvis Perkins
Used to be
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Used to be that
Every time I saw you
I walked away and cried
From the tone in your voice
The way you raised your eye
The whisper on your breath
You thought you could deny
Used to be that
Every time I saw you
I caught you in a lie
hints and blunt suggestion
Words like bricks would fly
But now i never cry
Since i stood my ground
And took my aim
And drew pistols at fifty paces
And shot the crooked lie
Here I’ve hung it out to dry.
U O Zero
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you owe me nothing
All that I gave was of
Mine own volition
Without condition
No returns
Proclaim free
Pregnant pause
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The perils of being an optimist
Is bearing more disappointment
The insufferable pregnant pause
Between reality and expectations
Is only a This World problem
Endless stream
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Dived into the murky waters
Held your ankles pushed you out
Before me float downstream
Clear pools channel into the sea
While lying languishing in
A trail of disturbed waters
Forget-me-nots floating
Sediment settling
Ebbs and eddies circling around
Waiting for the tide
To wash me down.
Count the stars of heaven 
