The purity
of immaturity
sullies
the longer that you sup
from life's bitter cup.
Becomes the

Dreams and shadows. Fragments chase each other as reality and fiction blur and time loses

She was standing there,
gazing at the darkness of night sky.
When she noticed a shooting

Watch in wonder, listen with care.
As its teachings this world lays bare.
Run, skip, jump,

The weakest like to exercise their power --
Abusers all lash out from lack of power.

The artist

The spirits fled -- no one believed in them.
The gods all died -- no one believed in them.

How

You ought to live your life as though it will
Be judged by history and art. It will.

Will music

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the old man with the spoon
said he’s going soon
the doctors told him June
as they

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faking madness 
is easy
when
medication is 
faking happiness 
so throw away the

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take me away 
for a year and a day
to live with joy
at its best
then
take me

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a worn wedding ring 
worn to the bone 
a measure of life
now sits alone 
the ups and

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somewhere between the sheets
the thick coffee urine stains 
marked our territories

our

she was on all fours
in an excavation
and even she has no explanation
as to why the

Foundations

Do not fear rock bottom
we build strong foundations
when we know who we are.
If we

After the rain, I see the daisies,
In their clean, white dresses,
Fresh and perfect.
Washed and

Freedom?

Hypnotized
And told you have your freedom
Authorities they let you know
That you do

Do you ever get that feeling
When your heart is filled with joy?
When the world feels kind of

Fear, and emptiness

Have you looked into your emptiness?
Have you looked into your fear?
Have

I have to ask this question.

I have to ask this question
The answer’s overdue
Sometimes it

A tabula rasa you were born
A slate all pure and clean
Until the world gets hold of you
And

From Hijab to Burqa

Only the eyes have it, are they open ?
What do they see, are they wide open

Down to the Bone

To a girl love is a joyful sentiment
of the heart, perhaps a blinding passion,

Nepenthe

The reputed powers
of alcohol , Bachus
son of the thunderbolt
to rid us of our

Does mortality scare you? No. We are all victims of age
But the thinning of your hair on the top is

Pushing
back
problems
only
gives
permission
for
them
to
push
back
twice
as
hard.

fit

big wooden puzzles
tiny pudgy fingers
struggling to find the piece
that fits
fingers

I am free, enough to take a big leap
and sprout new wings on the way
Free enough to commit to you,

Lust or Love and Equality ...
---------------------------------

You want a soul mate ?

Boxing gloves are useless against shadows,
no matter how insignificant or monstrous.
I stomp on

Make Love.

Ignore the media monkeys,
switch off sex-crazed TV,

anyone might please the

Stopping the thoughts

Have you ever stopped the mind?
Have you felt that blessed peace?
That

For nine months in warm sweet world
I float there peacefully
Then cast into that birth canal
It

The other day I read a book
By a mystic, name of Osho
I read a lot of stuff by him
He has helped

I’ve reached my three score years, and ten
I’ve had a wondrous life
I’ve done bad things, earned

Can we go shopping?
For what?
New things
Not this week
Next week?
Not

Tell me
These stories - un-needed
While politely
I hold
Your imagined cup of tea

As I walk out of this place
The breeze feels so good on my face
It's something I missed
I nearly

The circle stronger
the peace cycle longer
as the spirit heart grows fonder
more and more,

Nelson Mandela
spirit warrior
laid to rest today
with still his spear
headed with with

Have you seen the death
that waits for you
unurgent, peaceful, soft
and never moving on?

It

I love,
orange skies and purple mountains,
turquoise seas and silver fountains,
paddling along

I'm a pen's worth of altruism
in the construction of earth.
My creation is a monologue -
a solo

Or perhaps they may take direct flight
straight to roost the way a rook flies,
to the top of the

More eloquent
than any long speech
is silence in season.
Friends stay with silence
support not

More eloquent
than superlative speech
is silence in season.
.
Soulmates stay with

She sees a beautiful young woman
who's drawn to an absolute riot of colour,
she runs here and

Love is not found in giving
nor in the receiving
it's not in the need to breed
and it doesn't

Our journey is wasted
when we hanker for things
that might have been .
With open eyes, the

Contained in such a handsome vessel
I was unaware of it's caustic nature,
the lid remained

I have forgotten what it is to breathe
Deeply and long,
To drown in the sharp, cold hit of an

I have shut myself inside this box.
Sealed it well, from the inside,
And filled the cracks.

I

She crammed her head full of clutter,
A fragment of this,
A snippet of that,
Nuggets of

Please don't taunt or titter
I am the fool , trancendent,
I teeter on the edge of time
and

I inched up life's rockface
held on by my fingertips

out of a treacherous ravine
climbed to a

Connected to everything
we carry the universe
or are crushed by it.
We must be strong
to

When young, my lipstick
never stayed on for long
Yes, I always knew my lips
were put there to

Hate wants us to feel cocooned
in a twilight world where we know
neither sweet victory or