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"Here's a solution for old george whose pissedto help resolve the fighting as he'd wishjust one more idea for his tiny liststo end the war using a tactical twist~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~O..."

"I paint you with warm colors pastel tints that soften the worlds harshness your hope is splashed in white it blots out the darkness I am inspired therefore I will exhibit it to others you are a cool..."

"The Toys.(to be etched on a marble shaped teddy bear for a six year old.) ~ The toys sit sadly untouched on the shelf unmoved from the spot where he left them himself ~ now no longer played with they..."

"CHOICE TWO: Spring came with Eden a new world was born life was abundant and free rains of creation caressed every nation men grew and spread like the sea ~ Summer came quickly and stayed with the..."

"I remember so well my very first time arms and legs entangled awkwardly attempting to find a more comfortable position bending and lurching to find that perfect spot in that tight, little space..."

"Abe Lincoln took his long sleep, in a theatre he could ill afford. From a balcony he slipped out of the darkness, into a light, that was ten trillion candelabras strong. The Reverend Martin Luther..."

"When I think of cats, I sometimes visualize, long, black, sleek machines like rental limousines, purring softly in dark alleyways, prowling boldly down bright avenues, seeking out the mousy types, who..."

"On nine..one..onetwo thousand onewhen acts of terror made blood runin planes and in the Pentagonand in Twin Towersnow both gonemany trembling fingers dialed this dateof Nine...one...onethen met their ..."

"This is a simple song and meant for only one whose smile, and gentle eyes have made my whole world new can loving you be wrong you are so very young the years between us number seven and a month or tw..."

"Jazz is not Jagged, Jabbering, Juvenile Jargon Jazz Juxtaposes those hip, who are schooled in what's cool Jazz is their Jackpot,  sax spouts are their Jasmine gleaming brass is their Jewel neither ..."

"The tranquil winds murmur beneath the church steeples bending grass blades in grief over gardens of people +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ each furrow's well-tended, irrigated with tears every plot marked b..."

"If I could walk in my sleep, even though I never have, I would truly like to go somewhere significant, Like China, Alaska, even Atlantis, or the moon. What the heck, distance would be inconsequential...."

"I always ate my spinach my broccolli, my brussel sprouts I choked down stuff I hated as a kid but I never grew up big and strong cause I'm just over 5'10" and I can only bench press 180 that's not the..."

"curtains flung aside darkness denied blinds pulled down once now spin on thier rollers bright light streams in reflected off your smile warming me in it's gleams thus my heart's door............ ~ whi..."

"Coffee doesn't do it anymore liquid demorol is great but it requires surgery for a side effect candy was dandy yet.... liquor was quicker but unfortunatley vodka gives me headaches after four hours ..."

"Ive found that beef cattle are so hard to face alone in a pasture... head to head... one on one I think it's their.... big liquid eyes... with that gaze looking sadly contented, as they chew all ..."

"There was a cure for cancer, not so long ago it was a surefire solution, to all sub cellular malignancies but it's host died in 1969, in the steamy jungles of Vietnam with the last gasp of a future me..."

"She tried to jump off Superior bridge tilting forward into the thin air and she would have fallen to her death if I hadn't stopped her there I started to speak, but I'd barely said, "Why?" when she t..."

"Nothing to write little to share pencil is broke paper is bare computer is down pen's out of ink head holds no thoughts empty I think hours go by still I don't care butt's getting tired just sitting..."

"at dusk starts the musk clothes like husks shed with lust all souls must share love's trust joy is just thus we thrust till we're dust o+ o-> o+ o-> o+ o->-Artis Written January 26th, 2002 © on Jan 2..."

"You know, there's been a lot of words between us since we met and we have shared some happiness, I never will forget but there are things a man can't say, and a poet cannot write, Like unsung songs, a..."

"Regret is an Egret standing on one leg always wondering if it should have used two till the wave of an ocean of huge grief overwhelms it~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ then it tumbles in the current regretting..."

"Beneath a tree in my back yard I came upon a lesser creature who was a victim on that day of noble efforts unfulfilled in the same manner we as humans are felled by life's lessons cut short ` unjust..."

"Snow angels are nothing more then special moments shared by two in the winter residue the angel itself and the mortal creating it ************( but they cannot cure disease or bring upon us world pea..."

"At days end on Monday vanquished I sit so comfortably ensconced in my plush, scotch-guard recliner munching chocolate-covered cashews washed down with a frosty cola connected only by remote then sudd..."

"Please note that extra large plastic bags of fetuses, beings?? are being fed into the gaping maw of a blazing furnace. A daily smorgasbord of baby food devoured  by the flames which lick thier scal..."

"Darkness calls me out, and bids me gointo the humid, star-filled ink of nightmy slippers scritch- scraping cross the deck slapping time to the song of the cricketsas moths commit Harri-Kari against th..."

"To all those tiny waifs faces upturned their eyes so new to absence, moist with tears girls holding tight with trembling lips young lads who clung with earnest grips upon their Daddies legs refusing ..."

"Oh, that I could just be old and at long last done with it. Snuggled down in my wrinkled, scarred, flesh, in a bentwood rocker, watching sunsets on a porch, just south of nowhere beyond the insanit..."

"Winter spreads its coat of white unbuttoned across my shoulders like the old shawl, my grandmother used to huddle under graying my hair as well prematurely, with it's burden of flakes so I hum a li..."

"A tribute to Charles Schultz....that I sent to him three days before he died . . ' _ ~~~ No more comments from the Peanuts Gallery old Charlie Brown is blue Cause his little red-haired Girl has dye..."

"Watermelancholy on a summer afternoon spitting seeds into the grass that frames the fields of June juices run in rivulets pale pink across his chin matching quite exactly to his lips formed in a gr..."

"The ocean at night without light is breathtaking but ominous all of its ebony liquids unseen only whitecaps are visibly faint in the glow of a fingernail moon a leftover clipping of God's   snipped o..."

"college campus- Poetry reading--observation ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ younger, hungry eyes glance at me just briefly... a once over look at the other side of what once would have ..."

"I open the door of a sesame cottage it is a bright inviting place where golden beams of sunlight caress the waiting face of a lovely dark-eyed lady reading poetry her lips enunciating each word delici..."

"Summer is a hot babe soaked in oil pink bikini like a flower dots the sands her scents arousing mid-aged men as the steam waves rise around her still damp flesh from her last dip in salty brine t..."

"bent over low the old black man hobbles in a crabwalk down the boulevard arthritic fingers gripping his Goodwill cane the cracks in the uneven sidewalk of the inner city reflect deeply on his face a..."

"I met a man star-spangled and he murdered me in Vietnam in a heated rush through the tangled brush I was just nineteen and he was Uncle Sam under heavy fire I tripped a wire and it mangled me into a..."

"on a sun-derful day in a sleek car with a pretty woman on an endless highway to futures bright with hope he was there...but he took a wrong turn and wound up in the ovens of August in a rent-a-wreck ..."

"Behold the Children of Tomorrow standing at it's door scoffing at the yesterdays that brought them where they are mocking those who fought to free this world where they now dwell they can right what w..."

""Cremating Momma, one Monday in November." ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~ ~ She lay within a paperboard sarcophagus. I saw Mom on her back, as if she were just napping for awhile. An icicle o..."

"Lounging seaside again as the tropical sands trickle down through my toes perching here on a scrap of bright, sun faded canvas I'm just specks of glazed flesh fully drenched in warm oils drying to a b..."

"P U N K S cigarettes dangling from thier lips parked directly opposite of the permanent sneer that sits locked in sardonicus style on their pimpled face 14 to twenty something, always claiming to b..."

"Sentences not yet served still imprisoned in my mind are released by emotions, blinking in the incredible brightness of thought, they emerge as so many words expelled in tidy orders, from the convicti..."

"I have discovered There is much comfort in keys tapping like an old friend at the window fingers wiggling in a tender wave a smile of whimsy bends my lips they form an Oh!! as I realize that poems ar..."

"It's quiet here now all that was untidy is boxed up, and buried soon poppies will bloom where his blood washed into my soil, and grass they come up every year with bright red heads near where John's f..."

"Sunset burns the sky into black as Night falls its weight presses me down like a heavy quilt soaking wet I shiver under the icy glare of it's gazillion eyes they all gleam they have seen endless creat..."

"Silk and satin you were to me flannel warm my Polly Esther nylon stockings unstocked emptied of two calfs ten little piggies two knees and a set of thighs next a pair of d cups spilling out their vol..."

"Summer calls me from its faraway places I can taste it on my tongue I can still smell it vaguely wafting up from the storage vaults of my senses O I remember that shimmering heat as it enhanced th..."

"Flies are circling all around my head just out of reach... for now, they hover in hopes of soon regurgitating the many flavours of my skin but they've still failed to discover this meal shirks partic..."

"I have a special friend who's grown close to me for years he's an expert in waste management delights in working one on one but he's usually unemployed and just hangs out in shorts all day sometimes ..."

"A poet-tree garden is set in neat lines well-tended, and nurtured, it's trimmed many times it grows when it's cared for...it's bent when it's not most poet-tree gardens they offer a lot .... ~ A poet'..."

"Grey skies above with more gray moods below the only bright spots are the sun yellow parkas scattered round as the rain falls on each uncovered place beneath vast yards of plastic in happy face yellow..."

"Bullets rip through Khaki-covered flesh PFC falls silent in the sand oil is secured for U.S. interest + shaven head... dim light reflects the sweat of fear upon her brow as nine year old Sarah breathe..."

""Tuned Out." >>>>>><<<<<<<<<< My guitar squats a wallflower unaccompanied in the nook where I last stood it up it's sound hole is yawning just another O-vation cause it's known quite a few and though..."