Currently Playing
Cool Hand Luke
Album

Wake Up O' Sleeper

Track: This is Love

Truth's Stakes

If I were honest
I'd say I want to give up
but with formulaic certainty
If that happened
I'd dry up
washed away
my heart would shut up
but what's worse
like the sun dried raisins
my souls contempt
wouldn't let me up
until it rested
leaving me a warm bench
full of plotted land
full of memories
the fondest kind
letting go of despair
touching a strangers bight

Currently Playing
Walls of Jericho
Album

The Blind Feeding The Gaged

Track: Angel

XAdenaX

smile
implosion
of joy
a heart
spice
xxx
needless magnification
vegan instigation
focused
with song
a swan
a dance
a flamingo swimming a lawn
fireside stories
bonfire born
on sunday we'll be dancing round it
praincing
celebrating friendship born

Currently Playing
Cool Hand Luke
Album

Wake Up O' Sleeper

Track: One Time

Peace Despite

to foward I travel behind
this is the way
going I am neverminding folly
backward I'm traveling persistantly falling
the more I go
the lighter it is
forgiving pain is completing a mount
addictions released and love asertained
backward sojourn is this without haste
confirming a peace is completing pieces
journey this is backwards
pieces up picking
learning utopia
handshaking haste

Currently Playing
Zao
Album

All Else Failed

Track: Growing in Grace

Eyelid Eight


being adult I traveled then
to a land crawling with ugly
a place that stretched the land thin
where I made the demons gods
and with each delivery giving in
terrorizing my own soul I fought
only to realize I couldn't win
until I became a thought brought blank
in your mind
I'd survive
becoming a child and making a hero
my eyelids now eight
doing anything and making me a promise
young again walking backwards
backing up a future never mine

Currently Playing
Boa
Album

The Race of a thousand Camels

Track: Elephant

Persecu-sistance

I can see but I can't touch it
I can smell it but I can't know it
I sip it but I cannot taste it
I look at it but I've never seen it
I love it but I betray it
and in this waking hour I'm told I can still have it
facing a blinding new I'm promised it
with a single solitary decision
a putsch occurs
systemic anomaly
everything effecting what I thought had to be
no longer is
now I realize
a revolution starts when you persecute your own pride
waking up realizing you have to do something about you
the problem

then making "it is"
a "was"

Currently Playing
Strike Anywhere
Album

CHange is a Sound

Track: Sunset on 32nd

Dance like you knew Mount Zion

today i return to you
new in a scarf of wind
in this youthful gasp I am in you
through you
I sing and dance atop your holy hill
with one touch my fingertips release the numbness
once again I can know your skins story
and we jump
and dance
and sing
when I know you
breathing is worthwhile
my best friend
explaining why my heart is no longer heavy
lifting minutes and days
a poor man's dance giving all baggage away

the "Big Snow Fall"

Originally uploaded by neohxc.

The Big Snow Fall
feeling around now
bump
bite
a scarf
dark
dank
polite
feeling around now
a straight wall not a prison
outside this dark space
a tree
floating through to here
a light
so unlike this
so unlike me
out there apart from this portion
snow preserving certain places
for play
but in here
something curious remains
a solid thing
all can look at with a smile
like tye die
Its still here
and I keep looking out and away


authors not: dedicated to Kym Perfetto ... sometimes I just like to write about people...

Kujitayarisha

low whistle
you blow and the minor listen
the few and privelaged suffer with you
low whistle blow and cry
but God's a comin'
for no man can dry your tear
one persistant crippling lament
fear that this life wont haste and end
one thistle sticking
now to my shoeless feet
gavel pounding
roads my oppresor thoughfully laid
my legs have migranes
our soul tired from walking
who will care for the zombies
who will care for the walking dead
a fool I am for crying mercy
no woman mothers a beating grave


AUTHORS NOTE:
DEDICATED TO ALL THOSE WHO SUFFER AND DIE IN AFRICA. TO ALL WHO ARE DECLARED DEAD, FORGOTTEN AND NOT HELPED SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY ARE POOR. TO ALL THOSE WHO ARE TREATED LESS THAN DOGS SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY LIVE IN THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES. ITS ESPECIALLY DEDICATED TO ALL WHO LOOK THE OTHER WAY. TRYING NOT TO SEE THAT THE LIFESTYLE THEY LIVE IS A DIRECT RESULT OF OPPORESSING SOMEONE ELSE. WE ALL NEED TO WAKE UP. WE'RE ALL TO BLAME.

kujitayarishato means "to prepare oneself". Kujitayarisha is Kiswahili; a dialect spoken in Kenya.

Currently Playing
Ghost Mice
Album

The Debt of the Dead

Track: Up the punks

Hopeful Valentine Zombies

one day
I like then you like
me
and then that day
you like then I like
you
I look then I like
you look then you like
we like and no fight
we stare and find each other
a warm embrace
love
bond
true love as you wish
best friend
a candy kiss
coconut milk candy chocolate fixation
finally you
us loving we
till' our arms fall beneath the ground

Currently Playing
Cool Hand Luke
Album

The Fires of Life

Track: I'm not running

Race The Gopher Trotted

can you hear that
the pitter patter distant
in the background
its out of focus way behind me
not glowing but staring
I grow and move and believe
its not way back there in my memory
because I now have today
in me
locked on ahead
the scenery facing my back is blurried
vacant and weak
I look ahead and see a grand shiny canyon
in the company of a blinding morn sun
valley promised to a walk of faith
so I stand and we run
I'm standing
and you run

Currently Playing
As I Lay Dying
Album

Frail Worlds Collapse

Track: Distance is Darkness

dont be afraid to write the cliche you already wrote

I rip this world out of my heart
I rip this day out of me
I tear away everything I was yesterday
days now given back to me
with these oversized glasses now I do see
lament and crimes given
this plate taken
the things I bear aren't my own anymore
I share this park with trees and clowns
this is my desire now
a world changed and gladly taken away
leave your tear on this trash bag
he'll take it all away

Currently Playing
Beloved
Album

Failure On

Track: Inner Pattern

Loose Chains Go Bang

I rode that bike
from the point of impact
I attempted the race of alchemy
with flat wheels a loose chain and a broke derailer
I rode
past the point of bellyache right on into disaster
looking down at my bent rims and worn tires
but I can still make it to my point
amidst all these silly delays and affairs
petty distraction and problems
In any given day
I can stop and look up at the beach
sit on the sun
feeling the warmth of "things aren't so bad cus' I can still do this"
I'm grappling with the peace given in a wrapper
following a road
paved with smiles
making flowing formations
namely silk streams

Currently Playing
Through and Through
Album

Lovin' Life Demo

Track: Come Clean

still light

this still light comes on
reveals twice a side
Im a boy who's a man that's spent
*
a lifetime using mine eyes to stare down the other side
to much time
looking at that other side
day turning into year giving way to too much
they are vanity's earings
perfecting an illusion to make believe there's actually greener grasss
finding pastures made of breakaway glass
my neck hurts
from staring up at tabloids
your front page
reading you knowing what was given to perform
keeping up appearances
leaving you a pretty sight
depth lost and ugly enough
regretfully watching you
give your soul a martyrs demise

Currently Playing
As I Lay Dying
Album

Frail Worlds Collapse

Track: A Thousand Steps

Tongs Stretched Past

I'm more than than that tune
I'm an unchecked mark
I'm a windstorm
and dawn
I'm everything you were promised
a year more than you see
I'm the rise
simple
the glove that catches your fall
I'm the desire that replaces what's taken
I'm a rising sun
clouds
rain
and umbrella
I'm what you feel when you don't know how to explain
I'm sept 25
and dec 38th
every time you take a breath
It's me you inhale
I am the begining
simultaneously inventing end
alleywaying you out
I am utopia at rock bottom continually forsaken

with me

you'll never be vexed at the money you don't have to spend
because I'm value itself
I'm anarchy
rebelion and peace
sword drawn
ready to wage civil war
calling all things not sane

Currently Playing
Living Sacrifice
Album

Concieved in Fire

Track: Reach for the Sky(live)

Un Divisible

blue sphere protection like a drone
this shock poke pushed back with your protection
this life left me weary
then with you I get over it
how I feel and speed and go
one hundred miles exactly
every violence vying for my death
but in this blue cloudy sphere of perfect perfection
I slip by
like fire in a furnace I pass by
occasionally bleeding
the door fee at the race
paid by my clotting blood and strife
this sphere keeps me
this sphere kept me
undivisible
I go protected

Currently Playing
Jeremy Camp
Album

Worship Generation

Track: I Will Walk by Faith (live)

Inscription Phoenix


spittled on the down
this is one's reality
a hope lost for all
brought again
renew this thing
solid now
the ground you walk upon
rise above
never again this thing be found

Currently Playing
Switchfoot
Album

A Walk to Remember

Track: You

Pray you'll get this

I'll speak this quietly now
lest the world will watch
I'm unaware and uncaring to what they say
the timing of my breath releasing octaves
in this rhythm
the vice taking over me
I'm hoping mobs will comprehend
giving my sweat to futility
these knees are scraped
much effort going into you
getting me
but I'm wasted
spent
giving myself to my
rise fall and death
pleased to believe
living thrice
reposting a wasted bitter scar fallen then rebirthed
all new with no suite

Currently Playing
Blaster The Rocketman
Album

The Anatomy Of A Monster

Track: God Free Youth Flying Around In A X-wing Fighter

Edamame


I'll live my live like edamame
steamed
soy
beans
this confrontation wont last if I see it
him
the last
that's what I told myself
then one day
I died
after that I plucked the maker's brain
asking him why some days I couldn't enjoy them
why some days they werent as sweet
days they weren't packed with joy
and some days they were soggy and beat
not to mention the few days they were perfectly perky

I was sure he'd tell me
and sure enough this is what he said
each day they were good to eat but because of yourself
you only enjoyed a few
each day they were steamed to perfection
each bean had not a care in the world
I made this entire world for your ecological consumption
taking into consideration
my immaculate farming guidelines for beans
despite the fact that you prefer beats

Currently Playing
Matisyahu
Album

Shake Off The Dust...Arise

Track: Short Nigun

Bike poem that got wrote

up that bridge
the long bridge across night
lights along the side
me we rode
night time was the length of the bridge that was spent
on my bike We rode across each other
and I whisper
tonight tonight you'll make me appreciate tonight
my feet are worn
but steady
with you I'll ride
making me appreciate the brooklyn lights
street lights
you roll
I stake
putting your friendship beside me
comforting me
knowing I can see now
friends like you sustain and last
with a bike and hope
now one
proceeding up a stocky hill

We're all the same

I think an obvious statement is we are supposed to be ourselves. In today’s society I constantly see people living up to images. Now I know everyone instantly gives the affirmation that they are a complete individual separated from consumerism but I think in an odd way that attesting to perfection. We all need to learn and none of us have an inner utopia. Nonetheless you can I believe we can be individuals to a large degree.

Individuality is essential for a society to survive. Survival can be defined on multiple levels. There is the Economic, Social, Psychological and so forth. It’s important especially today to understand the importance of individual contribution to the collective whole. We should most certainly understand that our individual action have a direct impact on every little detail of future events. Individuality is the foundation of survival. It’s how we were designed to exist. Take that away and were all “dancing in a graveyard” as headnoise (punk band) put it.
There is a quote that goes “we classify and categorize to keep ourselves divided. We are individuals not the images divided.” How true is it that the real walls aren’t corporate structures necessarily or neighborhoods we have fears of going into. The dividing lines aren’t locked doors or hostile faces. They aren’t even social classes or the person you said “wasn’t your type” so you “denied their application”. No the true walls are the one we put up in our heart. The idols of our self images. Dividing us and simultaneously destroying a beautiful part of all before its born.

A Straight edge band called With Honor has an amazing song when will we learn. Its a song about unity and the strongest part of the song is just a phrase “when will we learn were all the same” Its so true that we divide ourselves, make a connection with someone we say “we connect with” then look for the division again. Essentially I believe we are all the same. Oddly enough Ill give you the last point of my thoughts from a source that none of you expect but mostly to prove a point. When I majored in Advertising later getting a degree in it there was a system that advertisers used in order to effectively reach coughmanipulatecough consumers. One particular area of this system was illustrated by something called Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs. Notice the top is self actualization. It’s described in terms of the thing that will give you the ultimate satisfaction basically. Or in others words there is something everyone desires. Advertisers go in knowing this and try to exploit that. My point is this. We are essentially all the same and there is something that will fulfill us all. There are things in our lives that we live and die trying to achieve. The biggest of those things is perfect love. We err so much trying to find it. Advertisers know that and they go after our lust for images and so on. Our Lust becomes a profit margin, all the while getting us away from the very thing that could make our society better. A lack of true individuality and division is simply an expression of the wall in our hearts.

All of the things aforementioned begs a question: what came down first? Was it the Berlin wall or the walls in their hearts? We need to search for our fingerprints or they may be lost to us for good.

AUTHORS NOTE: no poety today just an essay

Currently Playing
Jennifer Knapp
Album

Kansas

Track: Martyrs and Thieves

Untitled

you did fret
but I was there
I moved some things out of your way
only to have the thing moved back again
still I loved you
I was always with you
and all who are destitute
I'll open rivers
place trees where you cant breathe
and turn the wilderness into peace
I'll turn confusion into known
doubt to right
I'll visit you everyday
knowing exactly what to say
my persistance will be the thing you lean on
my hand will be there
when you refuse
and when you hold it

I am the missing part of the art
your heart
the thing I made to form
you and I
when I miss you I cry
hope
Im the link
Im the wishing well with pennyful hope
let me hold you and wayward shouts will cease
Im your champion
your closest friend with no doubts

(loosley based on Isaiah 41)

Currently Playing
Jason Mraz
Album

Waiting For my Rocket to Come

Track: who needs shelter

Static Frog Pad

I like
sitting here
in the middle of a pond
on a Lilly pad
with a lantern
using it for light
because its dark
this night
my night
alone with my thought
liking this pond
now laying on the Lilly pad
pondering
scribbling my thoughts
enjoying the feel good
sorting my thoughts
making life right

Currently Playing
Shine
Album

Gently Insane

Track: Dont Throw it all away

Clown Eat Soul
that night I wandered off
to a place where most circus goers don't
on the other side of the tent
I met a clown
we met
and stared
until finally he spoke
he said
this is a day if I wished to I might
stride into you anounced
like I've done so many others
and take with me what's there
cherishing whatever is given
you see
each time a humanoid meets another
is a instant to touch them
each passing encounter
is an opportunity to get past that glass door
the glass door to their soul
mine passes in an instant
laugh makeup and all
missed in a joyful moment
all focused on a face of paint
never peering
never curiously independently moving
past the glass
son I say to you
smash the glass and go past the door
we are few
the men who wander
don't waste your moments
good tidings wont wait
and after that
we had a meal
feasting between us

Currently Playing
Project 86
Album

Songs to burn your bridges by

Track: Breakneck Speed

Hopeless Romantically Indeed

On here I slide
zero effort
which is to say "we" will happen
because it was supposed to be like this
always
this hasn't taken place yet
which is to say this is foreshadowing
mine crystal ball
with it I see her
my hands fitting her hips
to the untrained ear
I'm a runaway train
but in her eyes
mind
heart
souls
we are second to God
the old man river with staffs
giving us the one thing that was in our hands
so I smile at this thing thats never happened
stars seem silly but relevant
so Im gripping this fortune by the neck

Currently Playing
Comeback Kid
Album

Turn it Around

Track: Operative Word

xFaith & Fightx

On this day there is still hope
today an odd buggy day
this strange twenty four hour period
can be filled with a positive outcome
I can stay in the fight if I choose
someone is reading mine eyes
hanging on me
wishing me to pull through
so they'll have a reason to want
this morning is mine
I have to persist
So that's it
I've decided
no more cashing in on emptiness
there is hope for me and us and you
bond this to your memory
some things will never fade

Currently Playing
Jason Mraz
Album

Jason Mraz: Live and Acoustic

Track: You and I both

Nonetheless


gallivanting is what I'm doing
at the local corner coffee shop
mug half full
as I
sip another drop
you walk in
I saw your light eyes and flower dress
and on your blinding eyes
traveled my new hope
I almost passed on the notion
to embrace the reality
that people do
anymore
my imagination was likened to one sinking
but one glance at your eyes
and I'm changed
somehow a pogo stick is possible
somehow a soul like yours are possible
I think I'll kiss your mother
and woo the very moment
I was reborn

Currently Playing
Cool Hand Luke
Album

The Fires of Life

Track: The Fires Of Life

Continue

If
I give up
A Light
Goes out

Currently Playing
Symphony in Peril
Album

Lost Memoirs and Faded Pictures

Track: Can One Possess Autumn

Perfect Love Eternal

soaked in tears I lift my head
and an unexpected event followed
with my worn enemy in retreat you spoke
I came closer heart pounding
you said I didnt come
to stop your metal solo
your pir·ou·ette
I'm not here to delay your dancing beat
I didn't come to condemn you
or your habits
infatuations
I'm here to be let in
I'm here to always have a place to hug you
my decision is to always love you
the hope of my heart you'll never be able to fully concieve
is to have me in yours forever
for you to glimpse for once small tiny lifetime
something that can never end
put down your chopping block
take your lashes out of the butchers line
lets skip in the moonlit park
after dark
you know im about to tell you to wait for dawn
but you've never done it
you know the beauty of the morn
but you've never seen it
this lifetime is going to be one spent
trying to grasp three words
words you've heard
but have not percieved
words you think you know
but you dont
I spoke in poetry enigmas and riddles
and still you have no peace
then he said perfect love eternal
leaving me alone
running a race to understand

Currently Playing
The Suicide File
Album

Some Mistakes you never stop paying for

Track: I Hate Rock N' Roll

Urbis sucks

my caps are fingerprints
and the middle one is rising
for you for you
flow this because i stick
two words
fuck you
you eyeball my verblage
telling me to frown
like a crab in a bucket
keeping my rating down
so you dont drown
my rythm is my own
my spellcheck on this one
nonexsistant
you dont understand a flow that hasnt been taught
so Ill make this next sentence stick out and poke you
im larger than your university textbook
bursery scholar rhymes
you dont perceive what you dont get
you hate me
then love your own
this discontempt is disallowed
so Ill run free
Ill write free
and when the world sings my poetry accapella
we will hold hands
us unranged dreamers
no longer wondering what a world would be like
unfettered and free


AUTHORS NOTE: yea this is an angry poem haha. I was getting anoyed with people thinking they know how to write better than others. They basically review others work as if they were the "messiah" of poets. meanwhile they are on the same site trying to get published... morons... anyway yea haha i wrote this... all the mistakes are on purpose and like all my poems they are off the top of my head. (98% id say) Interestingly enough they can all be analyzed as well. Im big on indivuality.. what can I say you cant take the punk rock out of me.

Currently Playing
Tosca Tango Orchestra
Album

Waking Life Soundtrack

Track: Ballade 4 part 1

Elbow Linguini

there are no elbows in new york
people brush past you all the time
connect and contact
but no one has elbows in this ginormous city
no one stops and gasps at the air
or stands in awe along with the sky
no one picks cherries
no one sits in the grass
its a perdicament people have in the city
because with no elbows you can't lean back
and remember a day
filled without skyscrapers and cobblestones
when people enjoyed fruit and apple picking
square dancing with thier elbows
through empty sidewalks

Currently Playing
Tosca Tango Orchestra
Album

Waking Life Soundtrack

Track: Ballade 3

With my Bassoon


with my bassoon I play a song
the ambiance of the morning
a ladder of despair
of hope
with my bassoon captives are set free
in a way no lock pick could fathom
with my bassoon I'll walk the pacific
cross waters
carry tears
my music is spice and ginger
on every french baker mans dreams
would you dare for some inspiration
I'm the mellow tune in your last living room
the one you used to remember
because my music is nstalgia
I'm the St marks street you used to know
I'm an odd sock or a lantern in Stockholm
with my bassoon I'll smash your writers block
giving food for you pen
feeding the imaginations

I kiss my bassoon
communicate with the thing
knowing when it breaks
I'll reach deep inside
thanking God
pulling another out
creating tunes once more
my next bassoon will be green
and I'll play through a winters delightfully cool breeze

Currently Playing
Bob Marley
Album

One Love: the very best of Bob Marley

Track: Redemption Song

Redeem these days

Today I found a wheel made of clay
in the ground in the dirt
it wasnt supposed to roll but it did
I wasnt supposed to find it but i did
now I have that chance
I have that second chance
I'll roll now
right cross route 66
explaining nothing
leaving one note:
"these wheels are bright
with an intensity I thought I'd never see"
then Ill roll
with joy
expecting no more
laughing out potholes
winning my losses
hearing me once again

Redeem these days

today I found a wheel made of clay
in the ground in the dirt
it wasnt supposed to roll but it did
I wasnt supposed to find it but i did
now I have that chance
I have that second chance
I'll roll now
right cross route 66
explaining nothing
leaving one note:
"these wheels are bright
with an intensity I thought I'd never see"
then Ill roll
with joy
expecting no more
laughing out potholes
winning my losses
hearing me once again

Currently Playing
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"

Currently Playing
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"

Currently Playing
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

Currently Playing
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

Currently Playing
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 :)

Currently Playing
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

Currently Playing
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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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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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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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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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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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