2011 - Day 209

Yesterday,
A day behind the last,
Tomorrow,
Comes to us so fast,
Today,
We should make the most of it,
We should make a toast to it,
For today is now but only today,
When tomorrow comes it's now yesterday,
And today's then tomorrow but won't ever stay,
So for now let's just party the whole day away!

2011 - Day 208

We wave our flags
And cheer them on
For Victory
Now and beyond.
The battle cries
The fatal shrieks
The vultures fly
And fill their beaks.
What we can see
Not the whole story,
The big picture
More dark and gory.
A game to us
Not real life
So far away
We're cold as ice.
Yet still we cheer
And wave our flags
And roll our dice
Riches to rags.

2011 - Day 207

Gossip tunnels echo the words,
Itching adolescents and bored adults
Taking turns tying notes to birds,
Affecting growth patterns to a fault.
Haven't we taught you enough?
Oh no.
Haven't we fought through the rough?
So so.
Then listen to me
And you won't need to be
Someone I told you you're not.

2011 - Day 206

Situation
In the basement,
Spatial movements
From afar,
Education
Segregation,
Wish upon
The shooting star.
Innuendo
Plays Nintendo,
A canister of rat poison,
Fight the nonsense
Taste the thunder,
Cold land-caster never chosen,
Experimenting
Coordinating,
In the end we all agree,
Fight the feeling,
Shake the ceiling,
Don't be afraid
Turn up the heat.

2011 - Day 205

Inner frustration drips from my pores,
I close all the windows and slam all the doors,
When things don't go my way I burn up inside,
My thoughts enter crooked with no sense of pride,
I snap and I change and I split to another,
The Twins live within, both from the same mother,
Deranged, unintentional wild behavior,
I'm in my own head like Professor Xavier,
There's no telling what the outcome might be,
For a moment though I feel like I'll be set free,
And then the fog lifts and Twin One does return,
To face the cold fire that Twin Two has let burn,
Separately they live together,
One and the same, now and forever.

2011 - Day 204

A great big mess left in the hall,
We stand around and pout and stall,
"Not our fault" we tell the teacher,
It was that slippery slimy blue creature!
It came right in and made that mess,
Then it told us it would never confess,
In fact, It said, once the mess was clean,
It would sneak back in to make another crime scene!
Please! We say, but the teacher won't listen,
She says mean things that makes our saddened eyes glisten,
We clean up the mess and go straight to detention,
Leaves the blue creep to a mess-time extension.
When we do all our time and finally return,
We see just how far the blue creep can burn,
Globs of gloob fall from the sky,
Magical fires blind my eyes,
The school we love melts to the ground,
Not a single trace will ever be found.

2011 - Day 203

Two birds sat along a long telephone wire,
They sang the sad song of the Ruby Red Fire,
A massacre by the hand of Ms Nature,
Consumed by billows of smoky thick vapor,
The central location of migrated birds,
No chance to escape the dark flames quick surge,
It tore through the sunlight and lit up the night,
It tortured the innocent in gargantuan plight,
Created by hate it would never rescind,
Till all that remained was the ash in the wind.
Two birds sat along a long telephone wire,
Paid homage to those lost in the Ruby Red Fire.

2011 - Day 202

Barefoot wanderings,
Deep thought ponderings,
Down electric disco hallways
There's always a song to sing,
Slow to the beat
Rhythm shimmers softly,
Massage your brain
A magnetic coffee.
Step left, on the wall,
Walk upside down
Will never fall,
Narrower the corridor gets,
In thought so deep
Tend to forget,
A spiral, black, then light does shine,
Walk barefoot back
Don't leave a sign,
What's yours is yours
What's mine is mine,
Till dawn of the sands of time.

2011 - Day 201

Perfecting the art of creation,
Not quite the easiest task,
Intricate fibers weaved delicately
Made to capture the sunset at last.
Sneak out in the night try to hunt down the colors,
All hiding from the gleam of the moon,
Check under the bridges and over the ridges
You're close when you hear a faint tune.
The colors will guide you to the Valley of Madness
Where most people never return,
But if you can cross it and keep your composure
Creation is now yours to learn.

2011 - Day 200

One plus one plus one plus one
Times twenty five times two,
What was once a simple thought design
Now an essential concoction I brew.
Evolution is said to take ages,
Yet we evolve every time that we breathe,
Experience and grow and discover and learn
Together on Earth till we leave.
You face your fears
And I'll face mine,
Eyes full of tears
But higher we climb,
To conquer the mountain and look down below
Then there's no limit to the places we'll go,
Today was meant to be celebrated
When tomorrow does come we can scream out 'WE MADE IT!'
Continue this cycle from now to all time,
And I promise your future will turn out just fine.

2011 - Day 199

We start at the end
And end at the beginning,
Though never comprehend
In this race there's no winning,
A delicate mixture
Of randomness and fate,
Look at the big picture
Too soon, not too late.
Whatever might happen
There's always tomorrow,
You're the ship's Captain
Take control of Life's sorrows,
Steer the ship proper
And head for the light,
Never a show-stopper
Always put up a fight-
It's your Life, it's your Right.

2011 - Day 198

Once
There was
Three faint shadows
Strewn across a path,
Poisoned by the suns energy
Created not to last,
They slowly evaporate
Into the
Ground.
Together
In harmony,
A beautiful sound,
Until the fog rolls
Wanders the world once more.

2011 - Day 197

A slow motion statue peers across the ocean
Waiting for something that it doesn't know,
Hoping for a powerful potion,
One that can twist up time as it flows.
Reverse the roles of the world around us,
Let the statue be quick while the rest of us slow,
The statue could run as fast as a wind gust,
The slower we went means the faster it'd go.
Instead though no 'something' ever became,
Not through summers hot sun nor though winters cold snow.
The statue grew tired and rusty and green,
Then finally disappeared into the ocean below.

2011 - Day 196

Maintain diligence
Stop only for the sunset
Life begins anew

Cling tightly to her
Sand between your fingertips
Forever searching

Routines come undone
Patterns evolve, light the way
You're free to decide

2011 - Day 195

Roll out the red carpet,
Delicate tip toes down the aisle,
Wishing and wanting to shine,
To shine,
Your heart races mile for mile.
The cocoons wait patiently within,
Till concerns outweigh inner bliss,
And reality sets in,
Sets in,
Shed tears for the freedom you'll miss.
Not for those with identity,
Chameleons and phantoms come forth,
Trapped in a bottle forever,
Forever,
To escape follow stars for the North.

2011 - Day 194

All I can see is
Blindness,
All I can hear is
Silence,
All I can feel is
Numbing,
All I can taste is
Nothing,
But that smell,
That smell from hell,
The smell one smells
When their soul they sell,
Throw your horcrux down the wishing well,
And as you fell
Though I could not tell,
The smell disappeared and all was well,
And then I sensed nothing at all.

2011 - Day 193

To touch your soul in a warm embrace,
I miss your laugh, your voice, your face.
The way you used to look at me,
So full of joy, so full of peace.
My Guardian Angel, by my side,
With you I never have to hide,
Face the world with confidence,
Please give to me good common sense,
Will tackle any obstacle,
Whether I run fast, or hobble slow.
All good things come to an end
So, for now, farewell my friend.
Remembrance not far away,
Forever in my heart you'll stay.

2011 - Day 192

A room with four walls,
No door to escape,
The walls all stark white,
A perfect cube shape.
You sit in the middle,
You try to remember,
When did you get here?
Was it June or December?
Memories blurry
Forget who you are,
You concede your demise
Your heart-fire charred.
They locked you away,
Forever and more,
The reason unknown,
No hope to implore.
Slowly start melting
Right into the ground,
No fire or pain,
In this room there's no sound.
Your body wax melting,
Nothing to be done,
Existence not cube shaped
So you start having fun.
You wiggle your fingers,
They melt off your hand,
Breathe stale air deeply
Lungs flow like quicksand.
Lie down on your back
Now one with the floor,
Evaporate quickly,
Leave only your core.
A bubbling mess
Is all that is left,
Till you open your eyes,
And to your surprise-
Clock reads six forty five,
A new day - time to rise.

2011 - Day 191

Stare into the reflecting puddle,
Introduce yourself to him.
Of separate paths to destiny,
A race where only one can win.

2011 - Day 190

Stillness within
Our peaceful mind,
Heart a mellow fire,
Peppermint breeze
Through the old oak trees,
We climb higher and higher.
Waiting for the rising sun,
Warms our bones
The next one comes,
The cycle never tires.
Brings with it
The hope of man,
Continues to
Brighten the land,
The reason for tomorrow.

2011 - Day 189

To forgive is to release the pain
From your soul,
To see from another perspective
Other than your own,
Understanding,
While not agreeing or accepting,
Just understanding,
Expressing yourself through love,
As you might hope for forgiveness
From above,
To forgive is to hear an apology,
Know that it's wrapped in sincerity,
Anger feeds anger fuels the fire,
Extinguish the flames
Before only scars remain.

2011 - Day 188

Think about it-
Can't live without it.
Use your brain,
Inside your head,
Figure it out,
Hear what I said?
More like a game,
The answer so close,
Play 20 questions
Need seven at most.
Try to buy time,
Work those mind muscles,
Times running out fast
Discover the puzzle!
Clues all around you
Day to day scenes,
All over the ground,
Up high in the trees,
Is it birds and the bees?
Or air that we breathe?
Don't call it quits
You're just about there,
It happens right when
The world all shares,
And helps mend the tears,
To lend out a spare,
When everything's fair,
When everyone cares.
Just
Think about it.

2011 - Day 187

Hope floats upstream,
A constant current in the clouds,
More than what is seen,
Pushed to the brink of eternity,
Injected to diminish the doubts.

We rise above,
See further the light within all,
To find the Love,
Searching for all eternity,
No matter how hard we fall.

Protect your own,
Family, sunlight to our souls,
You've only one home,
An unbreakable bond for eternity,
Together we are whole.

2011 - Day 186

1.

Freedom-
Believe in it,
Aspire to,
He's always got
His eye on you.
Follow your heart,
You will be freed,
He watches both
Good and bad deeds.
You love your life,
Hold all that's dear,
He listens close,
Can always hear.
When the times comes,
You must decide,
Whether or not
You will survive
For he is they,
And they are us,
And we are you,
In God we trust.

2.

Freedom-
Believe in it,
Aspire to,
He's always got
His eye on you.
Follow your heart,
You will be freed,
He watches both
Good and bad deeds.
You love your life,
Hold all that's dear,
He listens close,
Can always hear.
When the times comes,
You must decide,
Whether or not
You will survive
For he is they,
And they are wrong
The world's theirs
We're just their pawns.

2011 - Day 185

Broken wings,
Repaired by the tears of time,
Solemnly rests in Darkness--
Have and fear it lost,
Have not and there is no 'mine',
Nothing more to find,
When the world becomes heartless.

2011 - Day 184

Guardian Angel
Protect me from the Darkness
Guide me to the Light

2011 - Day 183

Where the music flows gently,
Where no dance floor is empty,
Where the laughter echos off the moon-
There,
Shared on a warm summer's eve.

Where the women are flirty,
Where no man is dirty,
Where the love rows down the river-
There,
Shared on a warm summer's eve.

Where the hammocks have rhythm,
Where all eyes reflect prisms,
Where the senses experience life-
There,
Shared on a warm summer's eve.

Where the butterfly's flock to,
Where the white rabbits hop to,
Where nature connects us all-
Here,
All shared on a warm summer's eve.

2011 - Day 182

Art is particular
Selective in it's ways,
Seduce the masses quickly
Find the one who got away.
It grows inside us all
A flower on verge of blossom,
Nourish the creative seed
Go from 'good' to 'AWESOME'.
Try it once or a thousand times
Or tell yourself you don't care,
Or try it one hundred and eighty two times
And here we stand,
Halfway there.

2011 - Day 181

Dark side of the moon,
A land that's filled with shadows,
Where dreamers go explore,
Beyond the sleepy hallows.
Dig deep through alien earth,
Questions may be answered,
A key unlocks a door,
There stands the lonely dancer.
In this unlit room,
All shadows get to play,
The sun their only foe,
In this land the night is day.
Deeper still
There lies the truth
Where we began
Eternal youth
In the wrong hands
The secret's loose
So covered back up
The chamber of Zeus.