• TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS - Cont.
  • COMMENTARY
  • Poems: 2008-2009
  • Poems: 2006-2007
  • Poems: 2004
  • Poems: 1990-1995
  • Black Poems
  • Undated Poems
  • The Strong Force
  • The Strong Force - Pt 2
  • Deepest Wound
  • DEEPEST WOUND - Pt 2
  • Improvisations
  • Cliches
  • Paradaxes
  • Paradaxes - Pt 2
  • Thru the blue wall: 1965
  • Poems: 1962
  • MORE
  • ADDENDA
  • ADDENDA - pt 2
  • ADDENDA - pt 3
  • ADDENDA - pt 4
  • INDEX
  • More
    • TABLE OF CONTENTS
    • TABLE OF CONTENTS - Cont.
    • COMMENTARY
    • Poems: 2008-2009
    • Poems: 2006-2007
    • Poems: 2004
    • Poems: 1990-1995
    • Black Poems
    • Undated Poems
    • The Strong Force
    • The Strong Force - Pt 2
    • Deepest Wound
    • DEEPEST WOUND - Pt 2
    • Improvisations
    • Cliches
    • Paradaxes
    • Paradaxes - Pt 2
    • Thru the blue wall: 1965
    • Poems: 1962
    • MORE
    • ADDENDA
    • ADDENDA - pt 2
    • ADDENDA - pt 3
    • ADDENDA - pt 4
    • INDEX

  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS - Cont.
  • COMMENTARY
  • Poems: 2008-2009
  • Poems: 2006-2007
  • Poems: 2004
  • Poems: 1990-1995
  • Black Poems
  • Undated Poems
  • The Strong Force
  • The Strong Force - Pt 2
  • Deepest Wound
  • DEEPEST WOUND - Pt 2
  • Improvisations
  • Cliches
  • Paradaxes
  • Paradaxes - Pt 2
  • Thru the blue wall: 1965
  • Poems: 1962
  • MORE
  • ADDENDA
  • ADDENDA - pt 2
  • ADDENDA - pt 3
  • ADDENDA - pt 4
  • INDEX

COMMENTARY: 11/17

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 time is the trolley we all ride
love is the stranger you sit beside
Death, the conductor, lets you out
at the corner of Destiny and Doubt

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The Trapdoor


life is a tale told not
by us

but about us  

Senior Musing

always expecting


always expecting death


well, it's just death


it's just DEATH


I'd like  to get it 

over with

already


so I'll never have 

to worry about it


again

Permission to Laugh: A Funeral Poem

am I seriously dying?

is dying serious?

is it deleterious?


a personal or civil case

running out of time and space?


or is it more mysterious?


the curtain finally descends

house lights come up and thoughful friends

file slowly up the theatre aisles

hopefully with puns and smiles

and outward to the mist of days

in merry-making wend their ways


Better to drink unto delirium

than wonder about death's mysterium




Limericks

 There was a young woman of Perth
Who hoped to inherit the earth,
But at last received only
Two cats and a pony
Which disturbed that young woman of 

Perth. 


 There was a young lady of Crete
Who walked on her hands (not her feet)
When quizzed by the town
Why she walked upside-down
She explained that her shoes were too "teet". 


 There was a young man from La Jolla
Who married a girl named La Toya
She gave him a scare
By braiding his hair
Which unnerved that young man from La Jolla. 

Consciousness

 Consciousness is IDENTITY like a fingerprint or voice print. Every consciousness is unique but each needs something to be conscious OF like a human body or perhaps a larger (virtual?) program (hologram?) It can be stored on a database. That's as far as I've got. I will now copy this to the Everything list. 

REMEMBRANCE for evelyn

after they found her

on the mountain


we walked in a park where a local fair

had a perfect Colorado day


we walked hand in hand

still young enough


but death changed the day

a clear overlay

on the scape of scenery



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