Hey everyone Ill be gone for 6 days but I SHALL RETURN WITH MORE POETRY! haha. thanks for reading thus far and please give me some feedback if you like my stuff :) here is a halloween poem dedicated to my friends, family and all you amazing people who even take the time to read this blog :) thanks!!!
-Justin



New York Halloween Pumpkin Pie

todays the day I become a new man
or chicken
i will put on that spandex and become a fun loving freak
i will trick and treat my ass off and later on i will dance
i will waltz in this years halloween critical mass
ill ride my bike all thoughout nyc
(and later on brooklyn because nyc is deeaaaad unless youre drunk and cant tell the difference)
yes halloween i said
give me candy or some other freak a trick
this is the day brick throwing is a holiday
and distance egg swalloing a national pastime
this is the day you and I become men
in reverse
we will laugh and wear size 3 shoes again
we will share again
be human again
ill walk up to you on the street and smile
not even knowing you
and remember saying hi again
funny for a wicked day
im sure well all feel like a society
again

Currently Playing
Boa
Album

Race of a Thousand Camels

Track: Duvet (acoustic)

a thousand camels

Why cant i just say what i want to say
you dont hear you have
no ears
no eyes
no mouth
i want to speak about horrid images fixated on sharded
glass over puple moons and sick shackles
the meaning i find only we can understand
so we sit here questioning ginseng tea
on a boathouse
in Japan
whilst munching crumpets
i need to be like we always are
around my wolfpack i feel normal
i can peacably say the absurd and never offend
around them
and the aformentioned will never be considered rhetoric
because around my possie im a traveling gypsy
misunderstood and alive
please let me say the obsurd while you listen
im cough syrup why cant you disbelieve?
i must insist to be an enigma before you bark like an owl
the things which youve spoken are not
but you can clearly see i am
what good would an imposters life have on the market
but i spill myself pimping every single emotion
just to convince you we're not christian scientists
that this neighborhood has a name

Currently Playing
Lisa Gerrard
Album

Gladiator Soundtrack

Track: Now we are free

Things we learn from circles


I looked at my tombstone from where I was
foggy was the word at best
It was a long tombstone of all our interactions
but it was easily summerized in a few sentences
i wondered without you
you stood there each day and repeated
no steps were taken into this space
you stood at that pale doorway
afraid of the ocean youd walk in once you came in
you stared at the waves and tried shaking my hand
everyday you remained a pattern
and each day she stood helpless
our legacy remains a lie
because you stand there afraid to walk an oceans mile
Im deep but not that deep
because truthfully we all long to go inside
we just lack the waves to take us there
but my winds are yours
and my mouth is mine
wonder this cannonball away and cross your shores
im calling you near to me
im bigger than all your fears
and ill wash your sins away
regret is a forgotten nike shoe long overdue
can you hear me whisper
dont give up me

Currently Playing
With Honor
Album

Heart Means everything

Track: Stolen Glances

Kim

This is my day of regret
it happened again
the revolving door brought you in this time
that golden door in that empty grand ball hall
as you pushed and took the first step
i hoped
i loved
hoping everything we were would colllide
dont forsake this
its too important i thought
just a stolen silhouette's shadow
a figment of an iceburg
me and you
and in that small slender hallway
that we walked together
a stigma of summer full with soft breezes
shared between us
swings trees bikes and strawberries
nearly limitless whispers
and you stood there
seeing all that
cotten was our word and we reveled in it
we were an ideal
you saw one truth
shook its hand and smelled its heart
all dirtied from work
but still we couldnt be friends
I long for your presence
Im love itself

(authors note: this poem has nothing to do with love. romantic love anyway.. subscribe to the list and i might give a little bit of authors explinations... maybe haha)

Shurba (soup in arabic)

We had a conversation
Us.
Something had to be established
When we talked I explained
Why did I Explain?
because it was asked
the question?
What do i want out of life
I replied the good things teh good things
Vague answer was the reply
my retort followed and removed the
doubters from the room
I said if I require the good things
and denying all other applicants
the i simply become a new eventuality
performing and jumping higher at each attempt
If every wrong wants to be a right
and if this horrid grip I have on doom
is hated even more
each passing day
you see my grip becomes loosed
and eventually my loose hand becomes habit
before I even know it
I forget what i held to with such familiarity

Currently Playing
Against me!

Album

Reinventing Axl Rose
Track We Laugh at Danger

my conversation with the porter

We finally sat down and had a long interaction
it lasted approximately 1 hour and 56 months
taking place over the course of two lifetimes
the chair i sat in was oak
and as it creeked i stared at his white hair
and his long nails
we looked at the clouds together and stared
then i wondered
then i asked him
why do the clouds move in that direction?
he said in actuality its not the clouds that move
its us
and the earth
moving along
the clouds standing there
watching us pass by

Currently Playing
Rufus Wainwright

Album

Shrek Soundtrack
Track Hallelujah

Eyes Open

It's True
The only thing we have to do in order to make our dreams a reality is clench our fist
To put our forks in vapors all that's necessary is for us to clench and hold our fists tight

We aren't useless dreamers
were fighters
marching with new intent

Let me hold your wrist carefully
with one hand
with the other I'll help you clench your fist
helping the realization we can touch our dreams

together is tommorow
never is the intangible
never is the illusion
Im unable to touch we cant succeed

But I can feel your hand in mine
I'm here to touch your fist
You're here to touch mine
Our lives
which compose our dissertation focus the power of the beanstalk

And our lives no longer become fables

Currently Playing
Mewithoutyou

Album

[a] to [b] life
Track silencer

Next

The things that I thought this moment in the next are regarded as hate
I thought it was taken from me
and certain the ideal was me clinging to your loose shoestrings
there are some things that will be evident
so why should I be lost in my vexations that cause me to destroy myself
no matter who stabs me with the knights sword
my concerned heart still reads me lullabies
with its reading glasses on
I become “one” willingly
believing a ship this big has a new hand to rip my heart out
each one replaced for the next customer in line
My credit card limit cannot be exceeded
but I still reach for you
regardless of your decisions ill take my ticket please
ill sit silently and thought for you
mindfull of each and every one that passes me by
remembering each name and thanking them
for making me a better human
complete with a blue newspaper stand
Todays edition reads: thanks for reading the Headlines
because this is the news ill be ok and midnight will fade to grey

The end of Journey


In my mind I realize that this is our life
not exsclusively "ours"
the answer came to me one day when I discovered God on a mountain
the most powerful thing one could ever see
so everyday henceforth I traveled up that great mountain
to see God again
and then one day he wasnt there
day after day I went but he wasnt there
until one day I found this garden full of dandelions and wildflowers
there were even some prickly bushes
and after a little bit of exploring I saw God there
we talked and made a real connection
then the same thing happened
just as before
so I searched again this time with a walking stick in one hand
experience and preperation I juggled in the other
with a new haircut and jelly shoes I marched
this happend all throughout my life and despite the mocking of many
Id say it was an amazing one
one thing no one can deny me as they talk mock or hug
one thing remains as undeniable
whenever people talk to me they look first at my hands
and see the experience
my hair and see the beauty
and mostly my legs
they see the distance i've traveled and the size of my
road married legs

Currently Playing
With Honor
Album

Heart Means everything

Track: Stolen Glances

Cool Blue


I named you a river called peace
I saw you in a vision one day
and in you the world will know satisfaction
a long cool blue river full of satisfaction
One can only see you at night
on any given perfect day
a long cool blue river against the breezy pastel sky
it was so descriptive that night
we all pulled down adjectives from the sky
each one of us worshiping with our words
spiting our love at the moon that shone brightly in our eyes
the glory of our formerly unknown epiphany
and all this time all we had to do is ride the
long cool blue river called perfect peace
filled with satisfaction

Currently Playing
With Honor
Album

Heart Means everything

Track: Milwaukee

The ecology of our commerce

I am the freedom fighter
I am the caretaker
the indigenous zapatista
the tree squater combined with the rainforest saver
Today is a slow day so Im find myself wondering
in this vacant moment wondering about who you are
and why you judge me
i want to know why you call me a fanatic
dont you care about me?
If it was your family lost in a third world
would you pick up your gun and fight?
if your mother was the next in line
would you join her?
you would
then you'd be on the other side of the tracks
with me
the goal of humanity should be to cross dividing lines
to fight a cause not thier own
together is the ultimate aids vaccine
denial spreads the virus
will you come fight with us?
a side?
all im asking is that when she falls pick her up
pull out your credit card and treat her as if she was your sister
when you see "my" teenage brother with a bullet in his head
care
stop
listen
put down the double mocha latte
for one second consider the price of your apathy in a package
there is something deeper inside us all
life is being taken away from us
at the exact same moment its taken away from them
the ecological system of us is dying
because im connected to you
everything you do means the world to me
and our division kills the earth

Currently Playing
Laura Fabian
Album

FInal Fantasy:TSW Movie Soundtrack

Track: The Dream Within

We Flew

We looked down atop that cliff
We looked 90,000 feet down that risky hill
That grassy green safety block before life’s flight
then we jumped off that risky hill all along the freefall hoping
hoping we’d grow wings
hoping we would fly after we jumped off that risky cliff
I still remember the grassy green risky hill before the freefall
but we fell freely and learned physics
about 10,000 feet in I felt feathers
about 20,000 feet in she felt a wing
50,000 we both had landing gear
60,000 a beak appeared and our hair exceeded human norms
the air against my face hurt like a tough decision
we both threw away our parachutes after 9,000 feet
grow wings grow
70,000 I felt my dreams desire
perfect love casting out fear
but we still fell together hand in hand
the same fall from the dive off that shady cliff
80,000
90,000 we flew