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Monday, February 8, 2010

NOT ON MY WATCH



I got lotsa gypsy images
go fleeting through my brain
at the speed of sight

Dozing into a multi-shaded basket of leaves
deep brown hue of Shangri-la City
I put my pen behind the stems of your heart

Temptation in the sky
attached to a slipped-wing disc

A saw cuts up the molecules
and how many families are separated
rearranged
never knowing they're part
of the same structure

If you leave a legacy for your children
you've made your life worthwhile
but they don't give a damn
they're too far ahead of you
to do anything but camp on your doorstep

Pollywogs for breakfast
make a cross-country runner
zip and joggle
and turn loop-de-loops
at ten feet in the air

A peripheral idea is merely
a central one
blown apart
like the universe eons ago

Each person makes his own creation
through the interpretation
of what you've laid down

Mental catharsis makes a good laxative
but the involuntary organs overdo it

Silly things
have always been
the rabbits
of my ear

Impotence, young man?
Not on my watch !

It's only a game
so why be strict about the rules?

All ending are arbitrary
because we think we need them
thus...

7 comments:

  1. Arbitrary is the nature of life -- And death is described as the comedian who comes upon stage without any sense of time or timing,

    Some lovely lines and thoughts herein, Tim :)

    wishes,
    devika

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  2. "A peripheral idea is merely
    a central one
    blown apart
    like the universe eons ago" - I really really liked that stanza.

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  3. I have no worries about my son...

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  4. DEVIKA,
    And a lovely comment from an insightful mind.

    TALON,
    It's interesting to me to see which lines readers single out!

    LORRAINE,
    HEE HEE ;)

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  5. "Each person makes his own creation"

    _Each person creates their own charactor, that balance between narcsissisim and selflessness

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  6. Oooo... I wish I could spell -narcissism- a balance among the esssssess? +m

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  7. MAGYAR,
    Balance is the optimum--but life is often like being on a see-saw...hard to obtain ! :)

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