Month: May 2011
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Hamburger all over the highway
Sunny days – foto by Smith I’m going to start re-posting a few of my favorite poems I’ve written over the past 48 years. They’ve been seen before but not by my new readers, and I feel an urge to reestablish my bona fides. But first, an update on my hip replacement and a recommendation […]
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House of Would
The house of would – foto by Smith at Chiplis Studio A friend named Anonymous sent me these lines. I find they contain a lot of truth and are right fine. This friend has got to be real old because Anonymous has been writing poetry since before Shakespeare. Wonder if it’s really Diogenes? I heard […]
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Lie now, pay later
I’ll buy that- foto by Smith Lie Now, Pay Later You pay for what you get You get for what you do All part of karmic net All ripples on one pool If you do what would be don’t If you don’t that which you should Your will will turn to won’t Your won’t will […]
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flow surfer, sifting flux
Float away – foto by Smith at Chiplis Studio Reincarnation How weary do I journey on my way Travel metered not by mile but by day Seeking naught the moment signing this way’s end But instead the mending of my last way’s wend — Smith, 1967 Still trying to mend my way’s wending 44 years […]
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Rat Rut Race
Monkey butt – foto by Smith Rat Rut Race Hi ho cheerio up and away And so I begin another day Another day of two less thoughts Another play with two yes plots Two yes plots, three of no Turn the key and away I go — Smith, 1965 That’s my 19 year-old me 46 […]
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THE OLD MYTHS, THE OLD DREAMS, THE OLD MAGIC
I’ve been thinking of ways to visualize and coax and heal rather than expect the worst. It’s worked for me in some ways, at least according to my perception, and is a bit fun. I’d like to dare to dream and be unconventionally irrational, because it seems more rational to be irrational than to be conventionally sane.
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PRINCE VALIUM & A COMMUNITY OF COCOONS
The doses of emotional medical joyrides and the forging forward bursting green mother load of spring and its resultant creativity are challenging waters for this raft.
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Back Story Blues
War, 2003, 17″ x 13″ x 4″ – assemblage & foto by Smith Time to reintroduce myself to new and old with this freshlyly updated cliff notes version of my basic back story, my anti-cv, my real résumé . . . 65 years of the good, the bad and the real ugly. Smith 2011 1940s […]