Oh dear, there goes time

There it is again.
The ringing inside my head.
Feeling as if the world has stopped.
Like a top run out of time.

Off In a distant nowhere.
I hear the calling of few.
Their voices as faint as rain.
Comforting yet eerie.

Time is no where in sight.
Lost in a far off trance.
Gone to a distant place.
No longer kept encased.

Finding our escape.
Drifting away to somewhere.
Losing track of time and space.
Clocks are not of this future.

I kept your picture.
Stored away safely.
Deep down in a pocket.
Tucked away for safe keeping.

In and out of consciousness.
Where is my loving clock?
I fear I dropped it long ago.
Oh dear, I lost her yet again.

Cracked is her window in time.
Broken is her inner workings.
She has stopped working.
Time has stopped working.


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Unfortunate Lives

In a state of comatose.

Benign facts struggle to the surface.
Deflected off weak minds.
Ready to move on in ignorance.

Stricken is a face in the mirror.
Lost as to human nature.
Coming to grips with mortality.
Broken is their every gesture.

Trampled are the feelings of those.
Less fortunate hyper beings.
No wonder thoughts go undetected.
High tech sonars having glitched.

Boasting of lighter days.
When parks were full and green.
When children ran and played.
The only sound now is silence.

Smiles are permanently fixed in place.
Never to catch a inner glimpse.
What's left to salvage.
When there isn't a heart left in sight.

Tea parties and pretty gowns.
All a mesmerizing facade.
Masquerades and ball room dancing.
No toes to be trampled on.

Peace is their motto.
Everlasting, blissful peace.
How easy is one to be fooled?
Having been fooled by the foolish.

A prism of light reflects dimly.
Bouncing off an unfortunate face.
Chains are slowly breaking.
The ice is finally melting.

We are the fortunate ones.
Being chosen by our chooser.
Saved by our champion.
Living now in true peace.


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Halted Musings

They march in my ears.
Perhaps on my brain.
These words that echo like an old friend.
Old, familiar and comfortable.

Knowing every pause.
The grin I can almost see.
I told it once before.
Swore to never again.

Has it come to this?
Being side tracked.
I can't help but feel.
Cheated in this onward scheme.

Can't imagine whats not said.
Muses can be a tricky sort.
My best advice to those who'll listen.
Halt! Mein muse

Halt Here


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It's begun, Fair Sleeper

I told them once of a drawn out tale.
Swore to only tell it once.
They would not leave me alone.
Those pesky, annoying little ones.
I told it in such atrocious light.
I thought to scare them of its woes.
Its longish claws and snappish jowls.
Were sure to frighten any a person.

I drew them into the tale.
By now they are on edge.
Fear close behind innocent eyes.
Gripping the edge of each their seat.
Sure to fall off their chair any moment.
All the sudden--CLAP!
They all go tumbling back.

You know how they say, "crazy".
You know they say it in jest.
You know we couldn't laugh.
You know its a true tale.
A tale written by another.

This Tale


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Trip through the flint hills

I call it, Hills-Lake'N'Clouds

A storm front on the Kansas flat lands

The gloriously beautiful Flint Hills
Through hail or rain...there was both

"There's no place like home..."

Never knew you

I stopped and I stared.
I reeled and I wondered.
Fought and I brewed.
Turned and I drew.
Steeled and I shook.
Cracked and I crumbled.
I never knew you.
I stumbled and I flew.
Crawled and I knew.
I loved and I lost.
I walked and I stewed.
I searched and I watched.
I never knew you.
I jumped and I stole.
Kicked and I laughed.
I sat and I cried.
Bent and I wept.
I swore and I said.
I never knew you.
I broke and I screamed.
I called and I knew.
I fell and I rallied.
Yelled and I coughed.
Spent and I slept.
I dreamt I never knew you.
I rendered and I kept.
I tipped and I toppled.
Trapped and I misread.
Mistook and I miscalculated.
I judged and I thought.
I found and I clued.
I never knew you.


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Revelation of never again

I lost you once.
Swore it never again.
Right here is where to stay.
I lost you to never again.

I said goodbye once before.
Told myself never again.
Here is where forever is.
Goodbye to sorrowful goodbyes.

I hurt you in the past.
Rebuked my own insensitivity.
It hurts right here.
I broke my own heart.

I kept something from you.
Talked myself into truth.
Here is everything unsaid.
Keeping secrets is the past.

I lied to myself.
Said I couldn't love.
Truth pushed out doubt.
Found the revelation of love.


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