New phase of my life

A reality work in progress…..

The first feeling of mortality
A numbed realization
An ever so slight feeling
Deep within my breast

That over months
Has been ever so slowly Growing…
my mind’s usual calm
Falling prey to unrest

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Mind Over Matter

The eye sees
What the mind
Perceives as so

The truth is belied
By what the mind
Seems to know

The falsehood encouraged
By what appearance
Deems to show

While all the while
the truth is hidden….by
What the mind thinks is…so

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Candle, pen, fools-cap and brandy

A candle… a pen
A glass of honeyed brandy
Close at hand

The taper…for which to see
The pen with which to write
And of the honeyed brandy?

Well that's just for me
To write through the nite, you see
And to make me feel just dandy

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More Bittersweet still...

A Marine kneeling in front of a boy
A seven year old boy with hands extended
barely containing his sorrow
Presenting him with a folded flag
With quivering chin, fighting back tears
In acknowledgement that his dad
…Has no tomorrow…

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Ideas

Before our very eyes…

Like helium balloons
Things imbued with gas rise

Like lead balloons
Bad ideas sink like a rock

Like Burst balloons
Can fall From the skies

Like trial balloons
Ideas float and undock...

before our very eyes…

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Loss of Face

I’m an easy touch
It’s commonly said

Especially by my once
Good friend ‘Mike’

Whom I loaned ten thousand dollars
For extensive plastic surgery and now…

I can’t find him to repay me cause
I don’t know what 'Mikey looks like

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Let Us Speak Of Light And Colors

Let us speak of light and colors
Of ephemeral hues and strident tones
Of luminescence that commands
One's eyes to observe it

Of cobalt blues that morph into ashen grey
That in turn then steals away
Into black…
Soft and sensual as velvet

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Sobering Reflections

'Look at those two
sad drunks ol' buddy'
One of these days,
that's what we could be'

My good ol' buddy snorted stout out his nose
Said 'That's the mirror behind the bar
That you're seein' you silly poof!
You're lookin' at you and me! '

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All In Your Mind

Happiness is a choice
It dwells within your mind
You only need to give it voice
It's not so hard to find

Sadness dwells there too
And tis a choice in kind
Whose dwelling choose you
To most often go to?

…After all…
It's all in your mind

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Why Not? (wear jammies all day)

Something about things
Small and furry

Something about things
Gentle in kind

Something about time
In which not to hurry

Things not to allow
To prey on one's mind

Why not be carefree
Laid back and gay (gay?)

Why not wear our
Jammies all day?

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