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Beloved
Album

Failure On

Track: Watching the Lines Blur

Boy Yelling Today

I step on the park
in the street
in the square
and all at once
I was given candescent ears
a boy made a yell
fell then a scrape
to the left a women
bellows from her toungue
letting her insides out
and thats all some will see
but not me
not today
even across the street
the farmers market
a mother
her baby
stop and admire each other
giving pause to my glare
I look up
see the sun's eleventh act
shinning as couples laugh
this worlds one great huge discovery
curiosity's pandora
beautiful frowns cant deflect an uprise
everywhere there is life
when I breath
now
that I breath
there are no gasps
and atop a staircase
a boy yells
"NEVER SUCK CURIOUSITY OUT OF TODAY
MONOTONY HAS CEASELESS WONDER"

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Strike Anywhere
Album

CHange is a Sound

Track: Timebomb Generation

Great Big Luna

there is a world beyond your world
its hiding behind a full moon
peeping
laughing
Jolly
stroking its whiskers in winter
its right dab near that big oak tree
push what you know aside
grab this and seek it out
its a world beyond what you know
its bigger brighter and sexier than the last ad
etched in that moon
"come here"

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XlookingforwardX
Album

What this means to me

Track: Best Days

Straight Edge Love Note


you gotta be there to be my girl
a quick runner to be my girl
spin kicks are a plus
to be
my
girl
im looking for a caring ear
to be my girl
If I could design she'd combine vegan with xxx
she'd straighten my frown out with two steps and a kiss
this thought
would be my girl
she'd care and listen and call
buds we'd be the best of the pack
she'll be tough and lean
tender hearted and eating canned beans
direct from my dream
we'll be wierd and savvy and stable
rolling through insecurities
looking forward
posi pointing out any pain
you see together we'd love the trees
with the blessing of a truce we made
Pirates we would be
I stealing her heart
she stealing mine
and this thing would be the authors envy
time standing still
everytime we meet


authors note: xxx=straight edge

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Living Sacrifice
Album

Concieved in Fire

Track: Reach for the Sky

No Reverend Killjoy

I let go today
along the stride I fought
it died
I let it wash away
all the while striding as if I owned something
these two fisticuffs are my only weapons
in my heart you claim youre perfect
so I give in
I chain my wrists to a radiator and smile
your devesatation is understandble
but
I need you and whats more I want you
I let go today
stopped looking to those things
as uncomfortable as it is
Ill stop looking to the run marks
burnt marks
Ill stop right here
and rest
letting pollen fill my dreams

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Vince Guarldi Trio
Album

A Charlie Brown Christmas

Track: Christmas time is here

New Christmas

today you renewed my faith
merry christmas to me
today you gave me hope
merry christmas to me
instilled like a newborn now I have hope again
joyful and full
this is a day for you
so I give an enigma to sorrows
and capitalize on thier race lost
no curlicue in your promise
solid
you preserve me like snowfall
merry christmas in me


Authors note: Happy Holidays everyone!! feel free to leave any comments :)

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mewithoutyou
Album

Catch for us the foxes

Track: The Soviet

Hindsight 20/20

I looked for you but i couldnt see because my head was stuck in the ground
I loooked for you
but I couldn't see because my head was stuck in the ground
I looked
for you
but i coudn't see
because my head
was stuck in the ground
but when then came
I looked up
and saw sky
all turned around

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Youth of Today
Album

Break Down the Walls

Track: Youth of Today

The thing you do for the what when wanting that huh

this is the one last final chance
finale of tries
no versos or pinch hitters
for this thing comes with a broom
and whisks away my most tired sweat drops
confusion gifted to my most formulaic motion
to be honest
my lovecareheartforyou is tired
it left me two tries ago way down under the bayou
once I commence Ill be parted for good
bonding with the Narmanda and damming all my pity
away away I’ll travel and carry
not a bag or a seed of return
I say to myself once looking directly at this thrice
this is the one last final chance
after this I can guarantee no other

authors note: This is about me liking this girl who likes this jerk who dumped her and... haha

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Boa
Album

The Race of a thousand Camels

Track: Rain

Kamikaze (Divine Wind)

I stretched out my hand
then my palm
longer than impunity Ill be elastic
my expiration date
my line
I rush
then Im rushed
no longer in this way
shorter breaths
shorter line
no more waiting
no more pain
aside the river Kusiro
aside my ashes
I am no longer


This poem is about teenage suicide in Japan. Respect all life. Especially your own.

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Strongarm
Album

Advent of a Miracle

Track: Advent of a Miracle

Indecision

little one in the jungle worn
among a cocoa tree he sang a song
a vow was made
pledging to move on
to you my Lord the one said
no longer a contingency plan you'll be to me
for this day is yours
today will be forever more
rise and fall
in and out
my shallow moments
will bring regret to glory
but still not stilling the motion
together we will complete our journey
these chained events will compose my legacy
you will no longer be a contingency plan
I will look in the mouth of the lion
and fear not

I have nothing
a poor man can only trust in you
and with this
the little ones prayer would end

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Nickle Creek
Album

Nickel Creek

Track: When you come back down

Romance is Punk Rock

Ill find her one day
avoiding the jaded like partial isles
Ill look at her and she'll look at me
eyes far away from cheap thrills
Ill write her a song
performed with a poem
and shell cherish my hand
that writes thoughts with heart
shell nevermind diamonds
because Ill be her best friend
and we will
laugh and cry with chapped lips
tripping over winter together
when I see you
you will turn around and look directly at me
my gestures wont be split with another
because ill have your heart
indicision will lay with davey jones in this love story
together speaking in unison
synchronized breathing
with uncoordinated misunderstanding
my calls will have meaning
everyone returned
never a one falling to the ground
delaying indecision
never a sway
laying a solid foundation
lasting until two become one
never departing
only unison
no requiem's until forever comes

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In Due Time
Album

Back To Basics

Track: No Friend at all

Qui Vive


we march in the night
this drum roll moves on
and MY company will sing MY songs
we march in the night with candlesticks
and large tubs of butter
with gusto my army moves on
laying waste to each opposer
each person approching the gate
forming thier allegace
upon arrival the gatekeeper asks
who's side are you on
the army retorts
vive le roi!
vive le roi! is the way to life
vive le roi! until we die
vive le roi !is my expiration song
then with heart
thier lungs
and a lot with purpose
they move on

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David Crowder Band
Album

The Lime CD

Track: Heaven Came Down

MellitronX


Today I sat in my rocking chair
you'll never believe it but as i did
time stood still
and outside of eternity
in my mind I formed your picture
a common lovers pastime
romantically involved with thoughts of you
never too busy
perfect love has no watchdog
so i sat
and i cried
all the years I longed
for your ownership on these arms
so today I write
at the ocean liners last stop
this is my elongated thought
the memory's wish that stopped time
the thought that I kissed
to me you are spring
and flowers sitting on sun
and all the while the breeze is blowing
ubeknownst to the flower
winds softest kiss
and the wind kissed
and kissed
and kissed

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Album

Smash N' Grap EP

Track: Ludlow

More Than Trust

I trust
time and again this is the formula
formulaic it pieces together
it sustains
its what love does to my insides
though you cant see it
its evident
everytime and every again
this is me
and who I am
trusting you to hurt me
trusting him to love me
wanting a legacy that withstands
so here I am
a love-full broken hero

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Fugazi
Album

The Argument

Track: Cashout

Four A.M.

Its Four A.M. and i can hear it
can you
its the jazzman tip tappin' his feat
playin' his sax
mankin' his beat
its that same song can you hear it
its music
a grambiose symphony performed by the player
and what they call the hearer
its alive and keepin me awake
what im askin is can you hear it
tappin its feat
smokin the beat
dancin its feet

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Officer Negative
Album

Control is an Illusion

Track: Warmth

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Maheshwar


you continue to build but Ill wait here
the water rises but Ill wait here
despite your courts
above your obsession
possesesion of self
leaving us to die
I will wait here for the manmade tide
for my heart has not gone numb
I can feel the cold water
and your resolve rise


The Maheshwar Dam : a Brief Introduction

The Maheshwar Dam is part of the Narmada Valley Development Project that entails the construction of 30 large and 135 medium-sized dams in the Narmada Valley. Maheshwar is one of the planned large dams and is slated to provide 400 Megawatts in energy. The project has been planned since 1978 and was originally under the auspices of the Narmada Valley Development Authority. In 1989 the responsibility for Maheshwar was conferred on the Madhya Pradesh Electricity Board (MPEB). Subsequently in 1993, the concession for the Maheshwar Project was awarded to the S. Kumars, a textile magnate. In 1994, the project received a conditional environmental clearance from the Central Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF). Maheshwar is the first privately financed hydroelectric dam in India and is expected to displace around 35,000 people. As with Sardar Sarovar, the details of resettlement and compensation are nowhere near a satisfactory state of affairs. The NBA has been leading the movement against the Maheshwar dam.

On December 13th, 2000, Ogden Corporation joined the procession of companies that were forced to withdraw from the Maheshwar project. In 1998 and then 1999, first, the US power utility Pacgen and then the German power utilities Bayernwerk and VEW Energie withdrew from the Maheshwar Project. Subsequently, in June, 2000, a team of international experts commissioned by the Development Ministry of the German government visited the valley and came out with a report that sharply indicted the Project. In the wake of the report, Siemens was compelled to withdraw its application for an export guarantee from the German government, and a proposed loan of Rs.5700 million from a German bank fell through.

http://www.narmada.org/maheshwar.html
http://poetpeace.blogspot.com

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The Narmada River

Narmada Diary


Its nearly complete
that dam built for giants
We will be no more
After it’s built
That dam built for men bigger than us
spanning fifteen million acres across our ancestors graves
splitting the waters of our divide
It’s nearly complete
the dam of the misunderstood
can you hear us?
Its hard to hear prayers underwater


The title is taken from an Indian movie that tells the story of a people being wiped out by greed. A dam that continues to be built while thousands of indigenous people lose generations of progress and thier enitire lives destroyed.

go to http://www.narmada.org/

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Youth of Today
Album

New York City Hard Core The Way It Is LP/CD

Track: Together

Fantasy


I saw you
you saw me
decision to be we
then
we looked
we felt
we collide
merge
we
understand grow unify
we talked
then we cried
we watched the cinema
more we
less of me
less of you
no resisting the big I
bus rode
it was right on time
then WE go on
straight on into the moonlit song
this is my fantasy
giving a sweet dropkick to reality

Speed Poetry

While attempting to perform poems on the streets of NYC one day I found that people don’t stop. Shocker. So I tried to adapt and wrote something I dubbed a "speed poem". It’s a poem that will instantaneously grab the reader’s attention and get them to stop, give you money, read your poetry, whatever. It has to be short, sweet and preferably inder 3 lines. My Speed Poem worked for me and the poem titled "speed poem number one." was the first one ever done.
I was standing on 42nd and 7th with a cardboard box and took a Sharpie marker and wrote the poem on the side of the box so that passerby's would see the poem and lend my thoughts a second. I got more reaction than interaction but my art was seen so I was satisfied. In my opinion thought is priceless. (one possible interpretation of the second poem is Einstein's theory of relativity but I'm no scientist so I think you know the interpretation I enjoy the most)

speed poem number one
one second to make an impression.
done.


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your stars
and your clouds
are nebulous

Itself
I sit at the city's edge wanting to jump off
erratic
sudden
but something keeps me here
waiting