Poetry

Blow My Mind

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You blow
my mind

a gatling gun
to the head

You blow
my mind

a hurricane

It whips
and scars
drowns
and mars

You blow
My mind

For fun

You
watch

as I whimper

and plead
as I lay

Blood withdraws
Veins restrict

To your
absence of love

A vagal response
to the artery
ripped

by your words

yes

you blow my mind
every time

you insist

I swallow
the lump

Of sorrow
and pain

Of guilt
and desire

No

I cannot
retreat

These shackles
run deep
beneath my skin

Akin to
a slave

I live to obey

You blow my mind
again

It hits
its mark

The spark

Is out

The Box

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The only gift

I know

A container
for your soul

careful

a box
to conceal
opened
reveals

evidence

all that could be
that would be
an empty place
a waiting space

Carve your pick
from memory

grasp the key
to forgotten locks

willfully drink
poison
or plenitude

choice

the final answer
in the box

Heckled

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Stretch my arms
Open the box

Feel blue
pixelated wind

Through my
tie-dyed mind

Heckled
via
the voice inside

Rainbow of thought

caught

Spider web
Delusion

Then it said

Have it your way
Just do it

Find yourself here
You can

Try it
you’ll like it

It’s the real thing

Make yourself heard

Invent

I point
the IR

and press
power

Spent

Cracks in Clarity

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I can’t
defend

that moment
when

the perfect
storm

forms

white capped swells
rise with the tide
inside
my mind

and
surge between
cracks
in clarity

Currents of
alleged
lust

pour

in lyrics

throughout
my veins

the pain
promise
and pleasure

perhaps real
or wicked

rush
into reality

I let go

I write

No longer
thought

now said
and read

whispered
evermore

Ocean Entendre

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Cannon Beach 2009

I long
to see

Her shining face

Her smile
her look

breathe
into me

I long
to feel

Her touch
over me

To know

The sound of
her voice

streaming
through

There
I dare

to dream

to visit

Landlocked
without her

I stand
on her sands

and wish
and wonder

if one day

I’ll be part of her

and roll
ashore

gently

and lull

those
who dwell
as I do

Automatic #2

/ edward pride / Leave a comment

Blocked and locked.  Emotionally constipated.  New boots by the fireside.  Mount, rush, more.  Anticipation angrily exerpts.  Come on now.  Who knows.  Geckos, seminoles and weed eaters.  Hilarious mocking birds get cloned.  Tomorrow seems forever in the eyes of a goat.  Bucknife and toothpicks.  Popsicles.  Chocolate covered cherry wood.  Stains in the fabric.  Seep through the mind.  This empty black hole.  Empty in the heart goes without saying.  To say is to say.  What else?  To do is to prove.  Onward and inward.  Linear regression of thought and emotion.  Linear repression, linear digression, linear depression.  A straight line to where?  The constant path of the least resistance builds no character, but fake values and misguided rules.

my Hidden Camera

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If I had a hidden camera
I’d want it to see

talks between
you and me

If I can analyze
what you said
how you acted
maybe I’d
be

Lost in
tranquility

Or tell the future
by looking past

If I had a hidden camera
I’d see my mistakes

I can
change what I said
change how I acted

or change
my drink
to something harder

If I had a hidden camera
I’d zoom

closer

If I had a hidden camera
no matter

I can’t change you

Decisions

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I
turn my world
upside down
shake my pockets
all around

Pending decisions
fall
as they may

Cluttered all over
some fall away

I line up the rest
on a big rock wall

Pick up
the first

and
smash

the cast iron lock
on my untenable
mission

Pick up
the next

and
dash

to

desire

To Happiness

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Further down
this stream
of consciousness
I drown

rest
put the world aside

submit to calm
hide

Dreams in bubbles
above my head
float up
without me

peace

wait

strong hands
pull
feel the current
and

bright

light

I spill
into another place

Where it Goes

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I’m not a victim

of emotion

I know what I want

The line
that binds

is taut

free my mind
expel the thought

it hits the spot

what’s next

is fate

Untitled

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I stand beside myself

In front

I watch the words

dribble from my mouth

I spit the blood of another

in the end I am in love

Marin’s Blue Waves

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There’s a place called Marin
where redwoods grow tall
and misty sea crashes
to the rocky wall

Where wind strewn grasses sway
and children play
Where magic looms every step
of the way

Where white gulls cry
blue lizards run
and red dirt paths lead to the sun

Where hills overlook
blue waves

And a golden bridge sways
on strings
and plays
like a violin

And there’s you
a little girl
who’s sails yet will unfurl

A soul called Marin
who’s never known
or seen
the beauty she’s yet to bring

Who’s eyes
see the simple
who’s mind
knows truth

You’ll walk your path
down tales in youth,
in old

and magic
all told
will be yours

one day
and play

like a violin
swaying over blue waves

World is Changing

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The world is changing around me
I look but cannot see
blinded by those beside me

The world is changing around me
think I know
fear what I don’t
but won’t
accept

The world is changing around me
My limbs
My home
My state
I roam

The world is changing around me
fall in love
world’s alive
go to college
strive
find a job
survive

The world is changing around me

My father dies

The world is changing around me
She breaks my heart
I travel abroad
childhood leaves

I’m not as smart

As I thought

The world is changing around me
I move away

The world is changing around me
birth and death
hope and sorrow
love and hate

tomorrow

The world is changing around me