"On Goals and Fire"

 On Goals and Fire

The winsomeness in winding ways

Releases forms of love and leys

No mysteries in vaguest form

Realignment with the norm

Of Human goals and heart's desires

Embedded in the spinal fires

Still all writ for thee.  Though, maybe, not so many to thee.  Can't get hung up about it any longer.  Just accommodating circumstances, I guess.  Finally.  

I mentioned a change in me.  It is becoming more radical by the day.  It is as if I shunted many of the paradigms of nonsense (you are not one) aside and, with them, the inhibitions that had gathered strength around them.  There is a downside, though.  I can no longer question or doubt what I say.  I am sane.  I am right.  I am tired.

It continues to be frustrating as I look around and see nothing changing and no one to interact/converse with regarding the change.  No one seems to be able to gain the sense that it can all change.  Maybe it is because, like me, they realize it cannot occur overnight.  Does that make it of such little value to everyone else?  Do they not care about the long term future, even if it is less than one hundred years to attain our sanity as a race?  That is sad, if that is the case.  Maybe some are finding their own ways to encourage the change.  That would be my most hopeful outlook, I guess.  My patience awaiting the change is at an end because there seems no more for me to do.  I am at a loss as to what to do next and feel it would be better to move on (like that's worked out at all).  I should be still considering it dark days but, somehow, I am not.  I know the change can happen.  It seems almost certain to happen.  Just a matter of when it will finally start.  When will the human race begin seeking its Humanity?

" Songs of life"

 Songs of life

10/22/2019

As I look across all time

This lifetimes spent in thought and rhyme

Amazing as it seems

Between the toils of nonsense spent

Away from spoilage mankind lent

There always were the dreams

A sense, a  need, a way to cope

A song of life, a note of hope

Resplendently, it gleams

Crescendoes grow within the song

A crest sustaining lifetime long

Awashing heart in streams

Of coolness of a springtime breeze

And colours of the autumn leaves

In sunlight's golden beams

I'll dream of it until the time

The way is lit in words of rhyme

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"Chain lightning"

 Chain lightning

I wish to wake up to a world that knows of sanity

A world in which mankind will know of its humanity

It streaks across the Earth to leave its brand

Chain lightning firing sparks across the land

I have no need to watch the spinal fire

Rescind humanity from state so dire

I'd just as soon vacation in the void

Returning once the heart has been deployed

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"Power Play"

 Power Play

I care not at all for the power play's call

Those games I'll not play, I'll look forward to day

Of the bright human loving array

In which the games of the animal fall

If that's what you see, in your sense to be free

Of the need that I be

I'll wander in barren display

I will not play the power game of who's in charge of whom

I do not have the room

I think I've played it once before

And found its goals were such a bore

No power ploys within the realm

But, balanced love from stern to helm

"Derailment"

 Derailment

Promises are something that I keep

No matter time or tears of which I weep

Retaining self-respect's what all's about

Seeking clarity is how we rout

The monsters that we seek beneath the bed

Really, just reside within our head

They wind us up like toys for their own pleasure

Until we go beyond the witless measure

This was not at all the rhoem that I sought

When sitting down, but this is what I wrought

It was just on my mind.

"Human"

 Human

My task could only be to bring the light

To wonders that transcend the dark of night

I cannot bring the jackass to the water

Nor end the witless travesty of slaughter

Of all the blossom of a race

Stupoured to allow erase

Of all it means to be Human

" Elucidation"

 Elucidation

 It really helps the revel magnify

Extends the explanations to supply

The simplest of the notions to comply

To revel on the Earth and in the Sky

The thoughts of two begin to multiply

Elucidation from the couple's sigh

" The Travelers"

 The Travelers √

Once the day was folded up and, then, been put away

The travelers toasted final cup ‘fore ambling on their way

The weary Dream donned raincoat pale, the darkened road to face

Staid Principles' so well-worn cloak was slowly shrugged in place

They trudged along together then, at quite a lonely pace

Both broken rhyme and deepest ruts were oft the dismal case

Along the darkened road there stood gloom’s shadows here and there

The massive mound of rocks looked vaguely like a well-worn care

A tree of disappointment seemed like end of all that's known

They slowly moved together as they heard a ticking moan

But, what was that they saw ahead, a traveler on the road

They brightened just a little, then, for good he seemed to bode

Ah, bright Heart, in tattered tails, you comfort all you see

The aching back of Principles from bitter drudgery

And saddened eyes of tired Dreams that sheltered from the art

Did lose their pain, forevermore, in presence of great Heart

" The puzzle"

 The puzzle √

Each day I pull the puzzle out to see just where I stand

Solve the riddle, find the clue, see where the pieces land

And, in one day, there's so much change, to take the breath away

I spend a day and brightened night, to find the piece to play

Curiouser and curiouser, I find it all to be

For from the heart and out the mouth, remains of what I see

Some days, the whole thing seems so clear, all answers to decree

And, then, a poof, they pop their top and all is gone, they flee

I scratch my head, once more, in thought, it's there and, then, it's gone

And, what of all that silliness I danced upon the lawn

There may be more within that dance than all those thoughts so deep

So, skip that silly pensive brow before it makes me weep

The pitter-patter of the rain, the soft brush of the snow

Its simple answers hold more truth than I shall ever know

This was written before the puzzle made any sense.  I was so close at the time, though.  It remains true that the dance upon the lawn is what it is all about, but the puzzle remains foremost until is is solved ... by all of humanity.

" Everlast "

 Everlast √

1976

Stray stars streak through my mind and pass

With soft impressions, Everlast

Unto my mind is given thought

On all that is and all that's wrought

The periled depths both new and bold

So fill my mind to end the cold

To take the chill from unknown paths

Gain summer's warmth in Everlast

And, as my spring accepts its winter

The mind shall know and not be hindered

Just as my future routs the past

I’m off, again, to Everlast

A golden, open breezy field

Within the dream, my fate is sealed

Oh, Lady Luck, you're cards, don't deal

For Luck is not the sword I wield

Defense is open-armed, I clasp

All patience gained from Everlast

Fantastic as this thought may be

I now, and well, can clearly see

'Tis but a part that’s but a start

For, now, alone, so stands the Art

Away, again, so neighs the heart

Bright wondrous fields that never part

For all that’s seen and all that’s past

Is only part of Everlast

This was written so long ago.  I was still in school.  It feels like a different millennium and it is.  First rhoem.

" A fairy tale "

 A fairy tale √

The mind, it slowly shatters

As the dawn blows thoughts my way

I sweep up all that scatters

Like the jacks from someone's play

Those lives and all the epic tales, patina on my heart

Stars and moons and all else pales, replaying their own part

Are all those lives, a fairy tale to keep my soul afloat

It's just a guess, 'twill never fail, as song surpasses note

But, one thing that is surely true

I'm wrapped around with love of you

All lives, from start to blessed end

The will for that will always mend

And will's foray will never bend

Our heart and soul, the final blend

" Realms of amazement "

 Realms of amazement √

My mind is shattered by the times and by the tales I've told

Through ages and the augury, deep shards these eyes behold

My breath, I catch, from time to time, as all goes whizzing by

With blinding light I see so clearly, then, so nearly fly

Transcendent, now, the will as one, the strength is of the heart

The trials come, the tests won't end, if life you still take part

A juggernaut, I think myself, I too, go whizzing by

The blinding light, I see so clear, sometimes I nearly fly

As I think about it, pretty much all of these rhoems were written before I had a clue what was wrong.  I  was still searching.  I'm impressed!  I really think the rhoetry somehow led to solving the riddle.  It's just weird.  Wish I knew how and why that would work.  Now that I think about it, it's like one has to find a way to jump past the paradigms (nonsense or not; maybe they're all nonsense).

" Transform "

 Transform √

The power in all beauty and the honour of the soul

Will build the life to something well beyond the keeper's toll

Fling out the hand and toss a spell to raise the life at stakes

The clouds upon horizon speak and wonders what it wakes

The power in the Traveler will stand the test of time

So deep within the magic to transform the world in rhyme

As steps of thunder rock the world to bring the final fates

Stretch out the willing hand to her, the heart no longer waits

No tolerance is left here for the shirking and denial

It’s time to rise above the past, transform this lifeless trial

The hand has been out there for a very, very long time.