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Saturday, March 10, 2012

BLAST FROM THE PAST

roaring spin 
of time
moments cascade into yesterday
like a waterfall in a dream 

a flower
a stolen hour
a superpower

a viper
a sniper
a windshield wiper

spin in the eternal eddy

as the man behind the mask
harbors secrets
hidden meanings
glimpsed through patchy fog
too dangerous to share 
with anyone but you

all the rocks and all the stars
the reasons poetry and symbolism exist

I'm just a visitor
a loner with a boner
in the star magnificence
an existence
devoid of meaning
and grace
the battered corpses of love
 strewn along my tracks

yet still there is wonder
us
them
uncertainty
the unknown
the astounding scheme of things

hypnotized we wander

Casanova
a supernova
Martina Navratilova

a candelabra
a chupacabra
choose the next palabra 


time sails by on the breeze

and yet 
like you
I  stand my ground
in for a penny
in for a pound
along for the ride 
starry-eyed
and hanging on every word

this blast 
from the past
brought to you by
the 
lingering 
essence 
of
me

19 comments:

  1. i am just a visitor...recognizing that...so true...merely an essence...yet we are the sum of all that is our past...

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  2. Wonderful, that life continues to bless us with wonder......love the "starry-eyed" in for a penny in for a pound! Go get 'em, Tim!

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  3. La siguiente palabra? Leyenda?
    __I have, without control, been thinking a lot about tiempo lately. I'm either ahead or behind (mostly) of what time tells me I should be. If I, and time share the same foot-print, its accidental.
    "time sails by on the breeze"
    _m

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  4. Well Mr Visitor you really shown brightly with this one. I enjoyed this a lot.

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  5. "yet still there is wonder" - and isn't that a great thing? Loved your blast from the past, Tim.

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  6. Wonderful ... leaves me in awe ... and speechless

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  7. Playful. I was alternately laughing and meditating.

    Cheers,

    Mark Butkus

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  8. I like the humor, Timo,well-mixed with the alienation and muted despair--and any poem with chupacabras in it works for me. Last lines are remarkable--and its a great triumph to be able to keep those stars in the eyes from falling.

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  9. Such grand word play - I love how it affects the beat of your poem, and who could not smile at 'a loner with a boner' used as a line of poetry?

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  10. BRIAN, SHERRY, MAGYAR (You're either on daylight savings time--or not--no wonder it's confusing! Here, we don't go in for that kind of folly!)

    BOOGULOO, TALON, CHEVREFEUILLE, MARK,

    HEDGEWITCH (chupacabras--I knew you'd be familiar with them)

    KERRY--Thanks so much...I was wondering who would be the first to mention THAT line!

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  11. I love this~it has such great rhythm to keep it fast-paced. Of course, any time I find someone else that has ever mentioned the chupacabra I'm delighted!

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  12. hypnotized we wander

    Casanova
    a supernova
    Martina Navratilova..... made me smiles... i always love how you take the real deep thoughts, the essence of life and clothe it like a vagabond that brings it to us so carefree and un-artificial..loved it tim

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  13. seriously i would not mind if we did not have it but then i guess somewhere that causes trouble...darn hard getting up in the dark though

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  14. I loved the rhythm of this --I want it whispered in my ear I think--great write--

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  15. Nice rhythm in this, I enjoyed it :)

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  16. fantastic, as always...
    "a flower
    a stolen hour
    a superpower"

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  17. Wonderful... I loved, of course:

    I'm just a visitor
    a loner with a boner
    in the star magnificence
    an existence
    devoid of meaning
    and grace
    the battered corpses of love
    strewn along my tracks

    always a deceptive simplicity but then, depth... xxxj

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  18. we all have our times when we feel like we are visitors

    four animal dedication senryu

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  19. ... stolen catnip ... yummy ..

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