"Windows"

 This belongs here as the conclusion to all of the questions I asked.

 Windows

Speaking of incantations, oracles, serenity, and love...

The eyes through the heart

On the way to the soul

The life to restart

From mere pieces to whole

Speaks of the relative meaning of things

In utter frustration, I lost all the world

Impatient to sense all the loving unfurled

The dimwitted fear of the loving-less beast

All due to the fear that they can't make the feast

So, on I continue, still frustrations roam

To skip to the time when the heart knows its home

The loving begins with the tug on heartstrings

Awaiting the day, if it's only to feel

Explosion of loving, at last, become real

In the next lifetime the love will anneal;

Substantial as heart, to the loving I kneel

Impatiently waiting for all to wake up

To fill all of life from a lovingly cup

The human complete with the craft and the style

Of love that transcends all the heart all the while

In glancing denials as we peer through the fog

Putting on airs of Pavlovian Dog

What's wrong with this picture that's glued to the screen

The love interrupted, the bout intervened

The loving corrupted with men in denial

The passion disrupted, the loving on trial

No pill is required, only sentience graced

With loving transformed and the hating erased

The frustration holds and impatience resounds

To think it requiring another full round

Another full lifetime for love to be found

The proof of the case is, in fact, all around

The fear of the failure has held us all bound

Sweep aside the conflicts and excuses

They're on the train that rides with the abuses

A juggernaut that leads to more the same

The crafted clown that's dripping in the rain

Late 2024: I was right.

"Stepping stones and boulders"

 

I have navigated life on stepping stones

Risen high above the broken bones

Of all; for pity's sake, I am alone

Ripping through the night upon the throne

That all of our humanity calls home

That wastage of our lives we, witless, roam

As they pile up all the boulders of the witlessness we crave

They land upon the stepping stones and build a loveless grave

I am buried in the dark while light begins to stream

As the darkness takes me, one more time it is I scream

"So you pile up all the boulders in a great morass of hate"

I bow beneath the burden 'cause I know I can relate

But, fury at the state of man is not the same at all

As hate that thrives amongst the mass as miseries befall

I am the lover in a world where loving has been strung

Upon the witless legacy millennia has sung

The boulders pile upon my back but light keeps shining through

The loving all too powerful, the fury all too new

The boulders set to crumble as I rise on stepping stones

This life, it's true, may forfeit but the love goes on in tones

Of rainbow coloured melodies that shatter all the dark

To launch the love upon a ship, on voyage we embark

"Satisfaction"

 

Satisfaction that we all desire
Purpose that embodies life's own fire

Only in one form will never tire

To bring about the loving in the light
The charge that sparks the reasons and delight
The flames of candles beggaring the night
Is all contained within the sum of one
The woman lights the way like setting sun
True satisfaction comes without a cost
As the transcendental's slowly crossed
The satisfaction now becomes the norm
Life and all its hardships now reform
When love unbounded blossoms all attune
That setting sun becomes as bright as noon

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"Wound"

 

 Wound

I tried to describe it as thorn in the side

These three thousand years and the pain of the ride

But wound is as deep in the mind as can be

Not merest of thorns in the side of our glee

It may be a jagged edge blade best conveys

The way it maneuvers to render and flay

The heart of the human and humanity

Deeper and deeper, it cuts as we flee

From rational thought of a sentient race

That fulfills the heart for the soul to embrace

But clamour increases and love we displace

All chances of love we seek to erase 

There's only one love that keeps me on track

For love of a woman, I'll keep coming back

She transforms my soul and renders my heart

 From sense of betrayal to love set apart

"Difference"

 

What is the difference in the man

That learns to love with all he can

Not the stumbled stride of brute

But, loving whole, right to the root

He loves a woman as he can

But, grovels not, he is a man

No animal that merely begs

That is not written in the regs

Nor animal that growls and beats

To force the woman forth her treats

For Humans are another sort

They love for love and not for sport

What is the essence of a man

To hide from nothing, heed no ban

Clarity must be the call

For Human to avoid the fall

Face his demon, only one

Failure irks until it's done

Destroys the Human from within

Causing race to hear the din

The clamour of forsaken soul

Must realize it can be whole

And hear the clairing call

That clarity is all

We can't be human sans our pride

In our race and in our stride

In all we do must be respect

Back we go to missing speck

In all we do must be the pride

Back we go to missing stride

As long as men deceive themselves

The deeper in the lies he delves

Refuting all of reason's ways

As in the muck, his lack he lays

Taken in stride, it's simple to do

But, broken the stride of race to construe 

That all becomes right with the men and their ways

As they learn of the love and its brightening rays

Rather than scoffing at that which they fear

That they're not up to that they hold dear

The misery caught behind every eye

Telling the story of life gone awry

No more to rely on a wing and a prayer

Now I reveal all the landscape, so bare

Confounding the sight for all there to see

Setting the soul and notions so free

I cannot question any longer

Landscape that can make us stronger

The clarity's required, my dear

The fog, it lifts, the view is clear

I cannot question any longer

As clarity becoming stronger

"Man destroyed, woman destroyed"

 

The title to this poem is a modification of the title of a book by Simone de Beauvoir, Woman Destroyed.

Man becomes hobbled with waning of truth
As lifetime progresses from bounds of his youth
Deceit is embedded so deep below skin
As misleading message sinks deeply within
Man could be coruscant, shining so bright
Except for embarrassment hid in the night
The man is befuddled as lie fades from view
Deceit in the heart as the specters renew
Now, comes a lady, the heart of desire
Lighting the essence, release spinal fire
Deceit in the loving encompasses life
Deep in the heart, lust plunges the knife
The fire is not lit, but the woman endures
'Til the bane of the man escalates and ensures
That the man is unhinged and unreason pours out
Then, only then, is the woman in rout

Unreason comes forth in so many forms

But all, in their essence, resembling storms

Seeking the love, which the heart does pursue

But, falling away, as they're falling for you

Or, ranting distractions to hide from the view

The failure men know, as the loving comes due

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"Buried"

 

Buried

It's buried so deep that we slowly declined
The source of transcendence for all of mankind
Thrown in a grave and entombed deep beneath
Patterned behaviour, an ancient bequeath
That holds us in chains of unreason's deceit
From reasoning's presence, we only retreat
The boldness required to say we are more
Than baffling remnants, we need to explore
Magnificent beauty of life as could be
A sentient race with the will to be free
Of the chains and the dirt that were piled on the grave
Of sentient beauty, mistaken as knave
The shadows unseen in the corners of mind
Unhinges the wit and the heart of mankind
Love can emerge from the depths of that grave
As sentience teaches us how to behave

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"Tone"

 Tone

Just a change of tone is what we'll find

As all of loving  filters through mankind

The spinal fire ignites a steady flame

Eye to eye, the loving is the game

The structures of mankind begin to soften

Love produces sanity more often

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"Forward vision"

 

Forward Vision

 Stand upon the rampart's wall of all eternity
See the past and future tense of split infinity
The dizzy spells recede
The forward gaze is freed
No other generation lived will stand upon a time
When culture and the words we use all changes on a dime
The briefest glimpse, head snaps in both directions
What is and what will be is seen in the reflections
Tremendous time of loving change
Don't let a beat of pulse derange
Carry on, just one more time
Crafting words and thoughts in rhyme
What a wind's relief to stand upon
End of all the smallness midst beginning of new dawn
The pulse will race
The heart to pace
Beyond the bounds of time
We'll nestle there
Amidst our care
And love in words and rhyme

"Burn down the house"

 

Burn down the house

A whipping wind approaches habitation
Presentiment of final abdication
From broken views and mankind's relegation
The end of all of mankind's aberration
A flare of fire in spinal conflagration
Burning down the house of aggravation
Rebuilding, now, a house of approbation

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"Crazy"

 

Crazy

Is it crazy to believe that, in this life, there's something more
That hidden in a corner there's a present that's in store
For all that seek the answer to a puzzle so complex
That only hearts can find it; for the mind it will perplex
The stars and moons and vastness of all of time and space
Cannot provide the answer and the will cannot replace
A tender word or two can brush across the windswept plains
Bringing views of heaven midst the joyous falling rains
But magic is within the heart and brings its own sweet peace
The magic that can work its ways and bring the sweet release
Just crazy  

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"Love and Lust"

 Heart, the closest confidante, nonplussed

By reeling of emotions we should trust
So, when the spinal fire is turned to dust
Love, the infinite, corrodes to lust

" Gaia"

 Gaia √

She came into this world alone

Child of heart but fully grown

And walked along the ridge of stone

Full of heart, but nothing known

Not knowing whence or where she came

Not even knowing of her name

But then a light and gentle touch

A heart of light that means so much

Wherefrom the sigh of love and such

In such a world as this bright ball

Love should surely conquer all

But on its flickering way it went

To come again, when heaven sent

But just, for now, the way is rent

So, with a sigh, she stands unbent

And, with that sigh, a strength is lent

A task awaits, a time unspent

"Why am I here?", she shouts aloud

No one replies, but hears the crowd

The glistened way is all in shroud

Too deep the turmoil has been plowed

Of concrete things, we were so proud

No things of heart were then allowed

All mankind so surely cowed

Upon the grasping, man had bowed

She gazed out, then, upon the endless ocean

Passion caught within unceasing motion

Rocks and ocean all around

Her destiny as yet unfound

Upon the rocks, her destiny

She meets her love to be set free

His blood pumps through her heart to fold

The deepest bond our kind can hold

They stand upon the rocky point

All alone, their souls anoint

Eternity with waves unbound

Something new is finally found

They look upon the world as new

Hand in hand, the leaf and dew

From there, beginning had begun

Wave on wave beneath the sun

Life goes on as all will say

Reckoned to this very day

A tendrilled thought reached out so kind

Those touched were thought to lose their mind

John, of regal industry

Engaged a beggar to be free

Jim, the spouse of angered core

His wife, he found now, to adore

Within the fewest spanning days

Big Pharma dreamed of TLAs

Winding, writhing so in vain

She harkened to the utter pain

What of this world that's gone insane

When will they learn, a slight restrain

Joe's free spirit, bent and twisted

Puppy's eyes, so full and misted

Brought the flood of unknown tears

Hidden by a life of fears

White fury blazed beyond her knowledge

As she entered power's college

She went to face the power's core

Beyond all fear, they did ignore

To the guns, the leader nods

With narrowed eyes, she breaks the odds

Bullets into flowers from the rifles' stems of pods

"I could bend your minds, so doing, break

So inflexible did you finally make

Your heart and all about you

No thought remaining true

Shed it now, I warn you once

Or you will pay it in the nonce

With pompousness within their eyes

Few of that ilk believed her cries

And, pay they did, in endless coin

All wit was lost and thought disjoined

The epidemic spread worldwide

Setting free a rising tide

As Empathy and passion fiercely rose

So arrogance came quickly to a close

Only the worst of minds were broken

Softly done and seldom spoken

And, as transition took its place

Tears ran down her loving face

They stood, again, upon the rocks

No time left, now, to save from shocks

"My darling, dear, my time is run

I've faced the tide, it all is done

And, now, I can no longer stay

But, darling!" She cried, "I'll miss your way!"

Tears streamed down in deep remorse

Her life did seem to run its course

Her body limp as death will do

No movement left and lips of blue

His head bowed down in anguished pain

His tears poured down like unleashed rain

But, wait! she stirs within his arms

How can  this be? what are the charms?

She looks into his eyes and smiles

"Have I fallen by a while?"

"You said that you must now move on

Change your mind, my loving one?"

"Where am I now, I'm sorry, sir

I know you not, but some things stir

As if I knew, another time

As if we were a loving rhyme"

"Yes, my darling, that is true

All I'll say is I love you

And hope, again, you'll love me too

As time does pass to see us through

I'll wait until you know it's true

Because, my darling, I love you"

The love is showing in her face

As she says, "No need to pace

For I can feel it now, and it is surely true

That, yes, in fact, there is no doubt that I indeed love you

The feeling is as adamant as if 'twere cast in stone

That I will never leave your side nor ever be alone

As long as I am here with you

For I know your love is true

'Twill last through age unknown

I know as cast in stone"

As Gaia spread throughout the world

The words were sighed by just a girl

The sigh that breathes of love

Silly poem written to match a silly story I wrote.  I should probably delete it, but I won't.  As fanciful as it is, I like it.  It was much easier than writing the story at full length.  I guess I still have the pieces of the story somewhere.