New soft shoe. Been posting each month’s poetry in a blog for awhile, but since July 2024, I’ve been having ChatGPT create an image for each one, and a monthly post with 20-30 poems plus image for each is a bit much.
So will post 3-5 poems + images at a time, for my future perusal, if nothing else.
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2025.5.1 – As you wish I wish I was
2025.5.2 – Sometimes it’s simple
2025.5.3 – I no longer linger down track
2025.5.3 – Rise through piss and pain
2025.5.5 – You can’t know till you’ve been
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As you wish I wish I was
both the doing and the duzz
Speedup and scurry
or lay low and worry
Endless soiree
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Sometimes it’s simple
down to basics
laundry’s started
the front yard’s next
but right now
I sit quiet in sun
sip coffee
toke
close eyes
raise face
accept solar kiss
its peach-red-orange-cream glow
gleaming through lids
bringing me back to when I was 4
and felt safe
warm in parental love
before tooth and claw and teeth
and glove
in the dark of duty
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I no longer linger down track
waiting for the going
or the coming back
Been round ground so long
go6oofart certain number right
way more wrong
My ego fits in tighter space
ergo takes its place
in thinner song
Sinners know eat is eaten
since kicked out of Eden
in our need of knowing
Now no ain’t got no heft
cuz law’s a lie
and they’ve stolen rest
So go west young beast
retreat from east
beware of rising yeaster
Coming cluster flux
more than enough
to bite us in the keester
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Rise through piss and pain
to roll the rock again
Stretching skin moving flesh
navigating mess of mesh
Foot in step in step of foot
keep on going or reboot
Grin within it’s all a hoot
sin again my friend is moot
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You can’t know till you been
no matter who what where why or when
ain’t never nowhere no how
however hard you plow
I’m a low life in low light
I like it that way
coming up poor
I seen more
everyday
I want to talk the long story
“Civilization, it was a nice run.”
she says glum
stuck in highway hell
awaiting tow trucks, police,
ambulances
our weekly morning breakfast out
She drives magic
rides right flow glow
in gone wrong
I ride along
Pennies from Heaven hurt
when they hit you on the head
so don’t be a Karen, Charon
give us a free ride
cross Jordan
You can take the beast
out of the field
but you can’t take the beast
out of the beast
sometimes I don’t no
simply means I don’t know
while yes is pure guess
there’ll be a sign
telling where you are
if you don’t see it
you’ve gone too far
tick tick tock tock
hope we go round the block
past past replies
to today’s lie
Do butterflies remember caterpillar?
Can caterpillar conceive of butterfly?
You know I’m never wrong
riiiiiight?
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