Alone and afloat on the sea of tranquility, so peaceful, so warm and still

My boat is my friend, I call him boat, but he likes to go by the name of Bill

I don’t ask him why that name because when I do his mood turns sour

We’ve been drifting for a very long time, many days or perhaps an hour

Time drifts lazily like the sea with no beginning or end, it’s jus...

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 Come to me with your bucket of hope

Bring it quick, please do not refrain

I need your help if I’m going to cope

In a world gone mad, gone insane

I once carried a bucket just like yours

A pail full of promises and lofty dreams

Personal things you can’t buy in a store

Tokens of aspirations I’d hoped to redeem

People blindly began rejecting common sense

To the point where ...

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The boy sits on a stoop watching in quiet solitude

As a person rushes by with an impassive attitude

Eyes staring straight ahead to avoid any activity

Perhaps afraid of what by chance he might see

He’s missed the shadow dancing across the street

With graceful rhythm she moves her skillful feet

A woman smokes on the fire escape far above

And farther up come the coos of a mo...

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I stand and wait ever watching for my friend

At the fork of those two roads into the wood

That place where choice lingers up past the bend

Perhaps I’ll seek another path, perhaps I should

But it is inevitable this fork that lay before my eye

One worn and comfortable, the other a mystery

Will my friend and I choose the same or say goodbye

Disquiet spreads through-out my ca...

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Look about the void with an unrelenting eye

Antiquated thinking hasn’t traveled far

On the beliefs of crowd mentality don’t rely

Inebriated spirits scheme in the pews of bars

Delusional conspiracies being loosely hatched

Theories floating in the brain’s pickled brine

From well-worn constructs rebuilt and patched

Reminiscent of old ghost conspiring across the Rhine

Shadows h...

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I see the world by the shadows it has cast

The imprints of existence decayed into time

Silent memorabilia from our molecular past

A macabre dimension portrayed only in mime  

I see degrees of darkness and shades of light

Complexity made simple by virtue of design

Twisted angles of truth are now within sight

I see it all clearly, yet so hard to define

We pl...

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There are times when I sit to write

There’s no thinking, it just feels right

But other times when I attempt a piece

All my thoughts just seem to cease

I think my hardest about what to say

But I think it will be just a wasted day

So many images spinning in my mind

But not one single word there do I find

That single thought now way off track

I’m having series doubts I’ll g...

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There are times when I sit to write

There’s no thinking, it just feels right

But other times when I attempt a piece

All my thoughts just seem to cease

I think my hardest about what to say

But I think it will be just a wasted day

So many images spinning in my mind

But not one single word there do I find

That single thought now way off track

I’m having series...

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The world can be a lonely place

Even when you’re standing face to face

There are times you can’t help feeling lost

And life feels meaningless, not worth the cost

But tomorrow comes and things will change

Misery won’t find you, you’ll be out of range

You can’t see it now, but you know it’s out there

And someday, maybe, when you have money for fare

You’ll get aboard the ...

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Watching fluffy clouds float in the sky

Or watch the people passing bye

Distractions to pass the time

On this day so sublime

So warm and sunny

Just right for me

To relax

And find

Peace

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The solitude of my depression

was not my own suggestion.

Think if you must it be my style

but it tags along at my denial.

It’s a terrible nuisance, I’ll admit

Always trying to get me to submit

It tries to show me the very worst

with worn-out lines over rehearsed

Fabricated illusions of personal rejection

Deepen my despair and sense of neglection

You, depression a...

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I came upon a bar called The Dungeons Inn

Inside it looked to me to be the Devil’s Den

A voice said “Hey, handsome, where you been

Then she whispered in my ear just call me sin

We had some drinks and we hit the floor

Later, we needed some air and went for the door

I said in a slur you look like pure love to me

Mister, loves not something that you can see

Then she turne...

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Finley’s Favorite Ball

She has begged me, so here I am

Standing in the backyard holding a ball in my hand

It’s just an old discolored, lumpy, chewed up rubber ball

But it’s my black lab and golden retriever mix’s favorite brand

Eagerly she waits, watching me to see if I’m going to fake and stall

I cock my arm back and she’s off like a streak before I even throw

She runs in th...

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Late at night in her dreams

Faces come out and make her scream

Some are near, others far away

They never move, they never sway

Unless she moves for then they’ll chase

At a never-ending frantic pace

They never stop their haunting game

For when she awakes it’s still the same

The haunting face is still very near

She sees it watching from the mirror

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The sky was over-cast, and the clouds were gray

Just one more lovely morning that’s gone astray

I reached for my coffee as I stared through the glass

My only thought, “I should have mowed the grass.”

I watched as the wind blew about some debris

And noticed the dull aching in my arthritic knee

I took my cup and my dog out to the front porch swing

Where we sat and waited fo...

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weariness draped upon sagging bone

lethargic eyes peer through heavy lids

languished souls that weep and moan

shadows watching what can’t be hid

insipid mounds of abandoned humanity

phantoms living among the intentionally blind

diverted obligation from self-inflicted calamity

insincerity demands to leave them behind

from this anomaly you have no impunity

fate’s...

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felt love so monumental

felt hate so detrimental

laughed out in the rain

laughed as If I’m insane

 looked into lifeless eyes

 listened to forlorn sighs

felt the fragmented heart

felt the void of being apart

felt the sting of wicked tongues

 heard the songs of the forever young

danced freely without a care

seen the crippling of despair

seen changes with just...

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She wanders down a barren street

Shuffles slowly with a heart deplete 

Pausing at a familiar lover’s place

In an abandon window sees the face

Looks down at her swollen, tired feet

Slowly, she continues down the street

Into the crushing solitude of her journey

Searching for the memory she has kept

A ghost from her past she longs to see

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Oh, how often had I played the fool

Yearning to steal but just one glance

At the liquid mercury, silver and cool

Mysterious eyes that induced a trance

Mesmerized even now after many years

I avert my eyes and stare at your cheek

I force myself to remember all the tears

But to no avail, I feel my heart going weak

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I once blew a kiss into the wind

I knew not where it would descend

I sent it off with the summer breeze

In search of a soul that it may please

I sent it along with just a single prayer

To touch a heart in need somewhere

A little warmth to help nourish hope

A little kindness when you need to cope

That gentle breeze that has blown your way

Has brought a wish and a prayer...

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FORLORNED

In the fields the little lamb’s roar

Above their heads blind eagle’s soar

From the ground dead daisies grow

Seasons change fast then slow

An echo bellows down a hallow hall

Its power’s voice in lustrous call

Stoke the fire of productive kilns

Slay all pleasures by virtuous scorn

And the cardboard people just looked forlorn

Across the quivering lane a ca...

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I don’t remember when the thought occurred

It’s been so long my recollections blurred.

One thing I know is when the idea first began

I was then a much, much younger man

I sat down at the new computer I had bought

To record my freshly developed thought

But I was told I could not log in

Because updates were about to begin

In five minutes, I could do my thing

So, I sa...

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Excuse me please, but I’m here to inquire about making an exchange

I sincerely hope this odd request of mine is something you can arrange

This old wrinkled and worn-out suit has become a symbol of my chagrin

It appears my younger physic has been concealed by all this saggy skin

Way down deep inside of me and most assuredly has been forgotten

Lay all the musty old dreams and the sill...

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I sat quietly on my chair

As you sat quietly over there

We sat there just us two

Listening as the silence grew

Shadows sat so regally

One for you and one for me

Not a whisper could be heard

Not a syllable from any word

Time crept into our solitude

Past the sentinels of our fortitude

Our silence spoken loud and plain

Nothing left for us to gain

So, time crept out...

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Side by side we toiled both night and day

Digging and clawing through brick and clay

Deep beneath the rubble we heard a feeble cry

But we could not reach the source of that fading sigh

Working on with heavy heart our efforts wouldn’t cease

Until the battered victim was uncovered from the final piece

Bloodied, broken, recognition beyo...

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What can happen in the blink of an eye?

Our world could change, i don't deny

In only four tenths of a second

There is a lot that could be done

The squeeze of a trigger and a time to regret

A kiss from a loved one you’ll never forget

Mother nature can strike in that fateful blink

And the world around you can suddenly shrink

So many things can happen when your eyelid closes

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In occasional fancy my conscious thoughts have intertwined

With numerous visions of imagination conjured by the mind

I seek to broker a sense of peace for my restless, weary soul

Something beyond the reach of eroding time’s vanquishing toll

The reaper has been barred from entry into this sacred space

He stalks, but to no avail, his shadow shall not obscure my face

My imagina...

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The words that I speak

Are those unheard

Silent in the air

There’s nothing true

In the words good-bye

Because I’ll always care

And if I had a silver tear

That for me could say good-bye

I’d slowly give it away to you

And quietly wonder why

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His mother did not know he lay just below the kitchen window

He was just out of her view as she did the dirty dishes in the sink

She went about her chores not knowing what was laying below

That on the other side of the wall his blood was drying like ink

When I came in, she was there at the sink, just another day

We spoke briefly before I entered the bedroom and saw the box

It was...

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There is a coolness that chills the heart, it lingers in the air

It comes not from the weather but from the malice of despair

Empty souls rambling about with vacant eyes looking nowhere

Bulging wallets stuffed in pockets and handbags lined with gold

In the market stand many people waiting for their turn to be sold

You flaunt your individuality, yet you only do what you’ve been told

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