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



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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




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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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