Enforce The Jolly

But soft

through what phase

do we pass now

Not again

the end 

of childhood

Not the up

and down

of new life

Then it is

the end coming

shaking us

So we push

happiness

into us

out of us

until we pretend to forget

all that we should've done

February 28, 2021

Magnetic Poetry pull: But, Enforce, Jolly, Not, Phase, Soft, Then.

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Out Of Mouth

That sudden

sad laugh

brought on by drink

makes you jump

like the ring

of a mobile

you know is

bad news

It rips

like a swim

thru the acid

you have rising

in your mouth

as you realize 

that sound 

is you

February 27, 2021

Magnetic Poetry pull: Drink, Have, Is, Jump, Laugh, Mobile, Rip, S, Sad, Swim.

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Dead Crown

In this storm

of virus and vagary

the cry of loss

goes in to nowhere

and out to every where

like a dead bird

what still flies

around the globe

screaming

February 26, 2021

Magnetic Poetry Pull: Bird, Cry, Loss, Storm.

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Double Buddha

That it was special

was obvious even to me

No slime of time

covered this statue

It was oozing

monastic magic

This ancient

holy Buddha

What wasn't known

was that it was

a hidden tomb too

X-ray brought forth a sight

like finding the remains 

of a unicorn

A skeletal Buddha

laid in lotus pose within

Buddha

embracing 

Buddha

in that eternal silence

February 25, 2021

Magnetic Poetry pull: Buddha, Hidden, Holy, My, Oozing, Skeletal, Slime, Special, Tomb, Too, Unicorn.

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Crack The Sky

Continuing to

pull the past

out of the earth

to feed the present

with no thought

to replenishment

is only beginning

our future's end

And when the last of life

has laid down

for the final time

will the universe mourn

our thoughtless selves

the little creatures

who wanted to be big

24 February 2021

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Pull Yourself To Joy

Bud

by the way

cheeky boy

happiness isn't involuntary

harmony takes practice

Like learning to read

make it a habit

mount a campaign

Nature can be grown but

not by a half-ass

offering of

purple pain

She the goddess the muse heats you

steam rises

through your pores

together with your sweat

Too much joy is never enough for

us

February 23, 2021

Magnetic Poetry pull: Bud, By, Cheeky Boy, Happiness, Harmony, Like, Make, Mount, Nature, Not, Offering, Purple, She, Steam, Through, Together, Too, Us.

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From Death Comes Beauty

The roses have died

So I take the green

the delicate white

the beating heart

tie them together with a ribbon of blood

and set them in garnet

Frozen loveliness 

February 22, 2021

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Intercourse

I see you

all over tit drunk

Come smear some of that

mindful gluttony

all over me

February 21, 2021

Magnetic Poetry pull All, Come, Drunk, Gluttony, I, Intercourse, Mindful, Over Tit, See, Smear, You.

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Pleasure Show

Your arrival

my spectral Knight

gets me caught up

in a stranger kind of calm

and we are slow to develop

this pleasure show

but once it is staged

we dance to our standing o

and fall to our little deaths

February 20, 2021

Magnetic Poetry pull: Arrival, Calm, Caught, Develop, Knight, Pleasure, Show, Spectral, Stranger.

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My City My Forest

 

I wonder around in words

put together by others

strong foundation

firm

sound

stories tall

their tales

whip and wind

in the wind of my mind

and I ask 

why I even begin

to open a blank notebook

and drive ink into hardened wood pulp and water

I have to remind myself

that's their forest

their city

only they can build there

A truth as old as trees

and as true as the colors of autumnal leaves

So I build

February 19, 2021

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No Show

My desk is clean

the wood strong

Favorite pen

favorite notebook

front and center

My

"Keep Calm

Drink Tea

And Write A Poem"

mug is steaming 

with Prince Of Wales

And I sit

and wait

and doodle

and try a poetry pull

and then another

Slowly I realize

that despite 

my well planned

and well placed accoutrements 

the Muse

has stood me up

February 18, 2021

Poetry pull

Prince Of Wales

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Dragged Into The Future By A Phone

The apple fell 

on Newton's head

and we found 

what kept us 

in place

Now the Apple

pulls us into the future

never staying long

in one place

And the band with the best data plan

marches on

February 17, 2021

Isaac Newton

Newton's apple

Apple

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Om It Out

Let's go home

to our old plot of land

raid the mead

and have a fierce ritual

in the green

which will chant

the poison of this day

away

February 16, 2021

Magnetic Poetry pull: Fierce, Green, Home, Mead, Old, Plot, Poison, Raid, Ritual, Which.

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Warmth

Flipping you over

I realize I've abandoned

more than horrible memories

All those dirty little self doubts

have flown with the bluebird

of your eyes

leaving only

dirty little ideas

wanting to lay siege

to you honey-peach flesh

Above you

beneath you

side to side

round and round

I'm going to try...

No

I am

going to make you scream like a god

creating the sun

February 15, 2021

Magnetic Poetry pull: Abandoned, Beneath, Bluebird, Horrible, Flipping, Peach, Siege, Try, Warmth.

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Open Mine Eyes

If I accept

will the scale be in balance

like

think and thought

moon and sex

Young as the acorn

strong as the tree

Now

if I swear

will his dream be over

so I can wake

February 14, 2021

Magnetic Poetry pull: Accept, By If, His, Like, Moon, My, New, Scale, Sex, So, Think, Though, Tree, Young.

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Mage In The Mirror

We're all looking for a Mage

to fill our glass with bliss

warm

not weak

so we can tell the vicious in us

to sod off

It takes most of us too long

more than a lifetime

to find that we were on

the proverbial fools errand

The Mage was

is

and always will be

in the mirror

February 13, 2021

Magnetic Poetry pull: Bliss, Fill, Glass, Is Mage, Not, Sod Off, Than, Too, Vicious, Warm, Weak, Were.

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Warn The Fire

She is the one

children are warned about

in a whisper

Which witch is which

The foul human sausage

encasing only evil

Understanding

doesn't enter the minds

of the mob

They only want

to slay her flame

February 12, 2021

Magnetic Poetry pull: Children, Flame, Foul, Her, Sausage, Slay, Understanding, Which, Whisper.

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Punch You In Your Mysterious Ways

God,

I don't give a good-you-damn

about your bloody

so-called compassion:

take your

mysterious ways

and move along

Me

February 11, 2021

Magnetic Poetry pull: Bloody, Compassion, Give, God, I, In, Move.

Title from "Lucifer", season five, episode five, "Detective Amenadiel".

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Fish Food Feeling

I want to investigate

this peckish need

I'll fish around

inside myself

follow the whisper

till I'm privy

to the reason

the why

that will feed the need

and leave me

the only one

in the know

February 10, 2021

Magnetic Poetry pull: Fish, Food, Investigate, Know, Only, Peckish, Privy, Whisper.

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Private Primate

Don't you know

that when her aura is red

this she-ape

will come to you

for a delicious fuck

It will amuse

it will be fun

to see you sweat

February 9, 2021

Magnetic Poetry pull: Ape, Amuse, Aura, Come, Delicious, Fuck, Fun, Red, She, Sweat.

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Broken Glass

An unexpected long crack

across the years

across the plans

spiderweb crackling reaches out

reaches everywhere

the windshield of my life explodes

leaving me a bloody view

February 8, 2021

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Vile Suit

He is a randy man

who thinks a good tailor

will give hi the illusion of dharma

and make him guv'nor

The rift is too wide

between all

that he must have

and all 

that he should have

This would-be emperor

should have his mirage of cloth

ripped off him

and be sent into the world

as he would have left it

damaged

February 7, 2021

Magnetic Poetry pull: All, Dharma, Guv'nor, Have, He, Him, Man, Randy, Rift, Suit, Too, Vile.

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Shot

Through that part

we've all been through

the animal self

When the physical 

seems neither

animal

vegetable

or mineral

and the wound is too great

to seem real

time slows down to that moment

when we realize

wheat we dread is true

we're going to live

February 6, 2021

Magnetic Poetry pull: Animal, Part, Physical, Self, Shot, Through, Through (yes, pulled two of the same word).

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Away

We slide out of woman

at our birth

and into our nature

from spring to autumn

we circle our pole

murmur our worry

pant our peace

all the while dreaming

of being different

being the fantastic freak

We live to write our life away

February 5, 2021

Magnetic Poetry pull: Autumn, Birth, Circle, Freak, Live, Murmur, Nature, Pant, Peace, Pole, Slide, Spring, Woman, Worry, Write.

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I'd Swear

Walking to the car

I can't remember how we got here

just feel you

feeling me

feeling you

And in the back we fumble

limbs long

patience short

a plethora of pleasurable positions

angles sharp and hard

until I roll over

slowly awake

alone under a soft quilt

covered in sweat

I'd swear was yours

February 4, 2021

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My Daily Mix

 

A little of red wings

a bit of the sweet syrup

and a double dose of black raspberry

Like kick from a bull

I'm up

artificial energy

mouthfuls of sugar

sparkling fake fruit

My liquid alarm

rings up my morning

jolts my afternoon

and helps me finish my evenings

As my foot taps out my days

and my hands shake through the seconds

I am beginning to wonder

if I am trying to start my heart

or stop it

February 3, 2021

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Statuesque

 

I feel like stone

made to look

like flesh and fabric

No fire in the bones

just the illusion of heat

within the look of softness

But I am hard

all the way through

and my only expression

is the dust that falls

from the cracks

that appear

daily and deeper

Without moving

I teeter on the brink

of disintegration

February 2, 2021

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Invisible Monster

Say it is no

The bird has not flown

The pad is off

and the wound

is horrible

Its infection

falls everywhere

the drool of a monster

that sees nothing sacred

No matter how you shift

it will paint you

mark you

cover you

and lay siege

to what is best in us

February 1, 2021

Magnetic Poetry pull: Bird, Drool, Horrible, Is, It, No, Off, Pad, Paint, Sacred, Say, Shift, Siege.

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