past stuff never used

2016

1-12           Cambodia                (12)     5 used   (January  11)
13 - 34       Thailand                  (22)     6 used  (February 31)       
35 - 43       Melbourne              (9)       2 used
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00 – 09      Asia January            (9)       3 used        TOTAL 02 NEW FOR BOOK 2
                                                                                        TOTAL 01 NEW FOR BOOK 1
10 –  43     Asia February         (32)      9 used       TOTAL 09 NEW FOR BOOK 2
44 - 121     Adelaide March     (77)    33 used       TOTAL 30 NEW FOR BOOK 2
                                                                                        TOTAL 03 NEW FOR BOOK 1
122 - 198   Adelaide April       (76)     43 used       TOTAL 03 NEW FOR BOOK 1
                                                                                     TOTAL 04 NEW FOR BOOK 4

                                                                                      TOTAL 01 NEW FOR BOOK 5
                                                       22 used York trip TOTAL 03 NEW FOR BOOK 2
                                                                                     TOTAL 27 NEW FOR BOOK 3
                                                        After York -         TOTAL 06 NEW FOR BOOK 3
199 - 336   Adelaide May     (137)    40 used         TOTAL 25 NEW FOR BOOK 3
                          (207- 229) used 9 Lyell McEwin -  TOTAL 09 NEW FOR BOOK 3
                                                                                      TOTAL 07 NEW FOR BOOK 4
337 - 466    Adelaide June    (133)   30 used         TOTAL 29 NEW FOR BOOK 4
                                                                                     TOTAL 03 NEW FOR BOOK 5

467 -  610   Adelaide July      (143)   06 used         TOTAL 05 NEW FOR BOOK 4
                                                                                       TOTAL 01 NEW FOR BOOK 5

486 – 568    to Sydney July     (82)    23 used        TOTAL 20 NEW FOR BOOK 4
                                                                                      TOTAL 03 NEW FOR BOOK 5

611 – 722  Adelaide August (111)     18 used       TOTAL 17 NEW FOR BOOK 4
                                                                                       TOTAL 01 NEW FOR BOOK 5

723 – 845 Adelaide September (122) 21used     TOTAL 19 NEW FOR BOOK 4
                                                                                      TOTAL 02 NEW FOR BOOK 5

846 – 996- Adelaide October  (150)     16 used     TOTAL 16 NEW FOR BOOK 4

855  – 919 Melbourne October  (64)   07 used     TOTAL 07 NEW FOR BOOK 4

997 – 000 Adelaide November (xxx)    10 used     TOTAL 10 NEW FOR BOOK 4
000 – 000 Hawaii     November (xxx)

TOTAL FOR 2016 NEW USED = 250 ¬ book 1 = 7 book 2 = 44 for book 3 = 66   for book 4 = 127

PUT IN BOOK 4 WITHOUT PP JUST TEXT:

book 5 = 12

Book 5 old PP – 37, 60, 63, 135

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 Contents

1.      Celebrates come and go. 42

2.      I merge yesterday’s. 43

3.      Island of make-believe. 43

Book 2 p. 87. 43

4.      Corner of Ten before twelve and ten after midnight 44

Book 1 P. 30. 44

5.      Looked for a new line. 45

6.      Erased yesterday’s thoughts. 45

7.      The chimes of times. 46

8.      Re- writing history. 46

9.      Universal love. 47

10.        I wanted my poem to last 47

Book 2 P. 99. 47

Text = life is. 47

Sit com.. 48

11.        I wish I had thought of that 48

Book 2 P.99. 48

12.        Applause at landing. 48

13.        Two bytes short of a perfect poem.. 49

Book 2 p. 34. 49

14.        Downloaded your love. 49

15.        Recycled dreams. 49

Book 2 P. 18. 49

16.        Quietly love consumes. 49

17.        Drawn Conclusions. 50

18.        Blended visions. 50

19.        I hid in the alley. 50

20.        My dreams spilt out 50

21.        Riding away. 51

Book 2 P. 71. 51

22.        So excited to hear you say yes. 51

Book 2 P. 54. 51

23.        Lined up. 51

24.        Love is a magician. 52

25.        Free of beliefs. 52

26.        I became another year older 52

27.        Will my poems remember me. 52

28.        To dream again. 52

29.        Reflected echoes of pleasure. 53

Book 2 P. 144. 53

30.        At the shrine of the unknown god. 53

31.        Too short the thought 53

Book 2 P.148. 53

32.        I followed the instructions. 54

33.        Past flashes pass. 54

34.        Mechanical dreams. 54

35.        New page new book knew life. 55

36.        Finals. 55

Book 2 P. 17. 55

37.        Amongst the ashes. 56

38.        Love a final background. 56

39.        Sun broke through. 56

40.        Home – islands of memories. 56

41.        Scientifically. 57

42.        Today ended. 57

43.        I changed. 58

Book 2. P. 145. 58

END OF SIX WEEKS AWAY. 58

44.        The journey’s end. 58

Book 1 P. 92. 58

45.        Simple said in few words. 58

Ten words 50 characters with spaces. 58

46.        I thought my love for you was a virus. 58

Book 2 P.44. 58

47.        Yesterday’s sketch. 59

48.        I tried to escape. 59

Book 2 P. 113. 59

49.        We set the record. 59

Book 2 P. 154. 59

50.        If you had waited. 60

51.        While floating downstream.. 60

52.        On my way to now.. 61

53.        No one saw my creativity. 61

54.        I won the surprise prize. 61

Book 2 P. 58. 61

55.        Your love a placeholder 62

Book 2 P. 56. 62

56.        She had the right-of-way. 62

57.        Nice body I said to the Ford. 62

58.        Each one of them stopped me in my tracks. 62

59.        Obscure as I may be. 62

Book 2 P. 141. 62

60.        I changed my vegetarian diet 63

11 words 61 characters with spaces. 63

61.        Muted revolution. 63

62.        I stumbled on my last poem.. 63

63.        I used the wrong font 63

Book 2 P. 110. 63

64.        I you them.. 64

65.        Copied transparences. 64

66.        I believed it would work. 64

67.        Poetically yours. 64

68.        She fucked the world. 65

10 words 52 characters. 65

69.        As long as you see me. 65

70.        Time lost me. 65

Book 2 P. 114. 65

71.        Vanquished to a minor space. 65

72.        Where did you go. 66

Book 2 P. 66

73.        In the often time of failure. 68

74.        Stretched across the horizons. 68

75.        So many ways to tell the truth. 68

Book 2  P. 177. 68

76.        I reversed engineered your love. 68

77.        We dream that we are awake. 69

78.        To late the start 69

79.        Too few.. 70

80.        I was yesterday’s youth. 70

12 words 62 characters. 70

81.        So excited to be your shadow.. 70

82.        Thought I would never be satisfied. 70

Book 2 P/ 114. 70

83.        We connect at a higher level 71

84.        With forgetting yesterday. 71

85.        I watched the weeds bully my lawn. 71

Book 2 P. 171. 71

86. Missed the moment 72

Bk 2 P. 84. 72

87. stopped moving forward. 72

88. Rarely satisfied. 72

6 words 46 characters with spaces. 72

89. It is only a matter of time. 72

90. Dawn’s relatives. 73

Book 2 P. 86. 73

91. Went into competition. 73

7 words 43 characters with spaces. 73

92. Mimicking creation. 73

9 words 43 characters with spaces. 73

93. Overcrowded galaxy. 73

Book 2 P.84. 73

94. Sun rose as a mistaken identity. 74

Book 1 P. 124. 74

95. Desire perpendicular to dreams. 74

Book 2 P. 78. 74

96. Walked into a wall 75

97. Earth. 75

98. To quote my lower self 75

99. When you were a star 75

Book 2 P. 172. 75

100. On the way to greatness. 76

Book 2 Part of a group P. 16. 76

101. Creation tried a different technique. 76

102. Everything I do is outdated. 76

Book 2 Part of a group P. 16. 76

103. Snippets of facts. 76

Book 2 Part of a group P. 16. 76

104. Thawed love. 77

Book 2 Part of a group P. 16. 77

105. Step by step. 77

106. There are things I am not sure of 77

107. Surrounded sunrise surprise. 77

108. The first should be last 78

109. When finally, I had nothing left to say. 78

110. I like the way the pressure is finally off 78

Book 2 P. 119. 78

111. Stories of past times gone. 79

Book 2. P. 7. 79

112. People of earth. 79

113. Once again set adrift 79

114. Without translation. 79

115. Worked through the playful part 80

116. Sort of a theme here. 80

117. No! Not me. 80

118. I hid in my prehistoric disguise. 81

119. god copied and pasted our solar system into another galaxy. 81

Book 2 P.139. 81

120. Based on what I never did before. 81

Book 2 P. 140. 81

121. Starting tomorrow.. 82

Book 2 P. 151. 82

122. I use to know what I would do next 82

Book 2 P. 183. 82

123. Like any award-winning film.. 83

Book 2 P. 180. 83

124. Too many letters. 83

125. The day I died. 83

Book 1 P. 11. 83

126. I traded my happiness for your love. 84

127. Memory of who we were when. 84

128. Aligned. 84

Book 3 P. 45. 84

129. I thought we were retired. 85

Book 1 P. 9. 85

130. First impression. 85

131. Each new day a mystery. 85

132. At the height of foolishness. 86

133. Leaf on a branch. 86

Book 2  P. ?. 86

134. Watching time slip away. 87

Book 1 P. 7. 87

135. A reckless wind. 87

Book 2 P. 53. 87

136. I took a detour 88

Book 4 P. 7. 88

137. The feeling was mutual 88

138. Historically your touch. 89

139. I lost my creative function. 89

Book 3. P. 71. 89

140. I changed my diet 89

141.  It was not clear at first 90

142. I changed my calendar to fifteen years ago Leigh. 90

143. Fitting moments. 91

144. Letting loose the last grasp on reality. 91

Book 3 P. 78. 91

145. Waiting for the next big bang. 92

146. I spent sixty-eight years. 92

Book 3. P. 67. 92

147. I was put on to life supportive system.. 92

Book 5. P. 41. 92

Camping trip to York Peninsula. 92

148. Reflection perfection of morning. 92

Book 3. P. 141. 92

149. If only there was time and space. 93

Book 4. P. 96. 93

150. Where the sea meets my dreams. 93

151. While critiquing a thought recently shared with me. 93

Book 3. P. 12. 93

152. Unbeknown to those who knew.. 94

Book 3. P. 118. 94

153. I heard the warning. 94

Book 3. P. 135. 94

154. Snuggled up to falling rain. 95

155. Broken passage. 95

Book 3. P. 17. 95

156. I chiseled my memory into the cliff face. 96

Book 3. P. 127. 96

157. The transformational aura of a chance forgiveness. 96

Book 3. P. 91. 96

158. I look out the window into the darkness. 96

159. Under strong advice from a herd of nice mice. 97

160. Laughter mingled with evening breeze. 97

161. Shipwrecks along the coast Book 3. P. 110. 97

162. 816 full moons have passed my way Book 3. P. 58. 98

163. Closing my eyes. 98

Book 4. P. 56. 98

164. Absorbing fully the moment 99

165. I set the time to five-minutes before I would appear in your dream.. 99

Book 3. P. 33. 99

166. In a transformative haze. 99

167. This morning’s news. 100

Book 3 P. 49. 100

168. I try to imagine. 100

Book 3. P. 10. 100

Leigh. 100

169. Refresh reboot restart 100

Book 3 P. 87. 100

170. I heard on the news. 101

Book 3. P. 100. 101

171. The plot thickened  Book 3. P. 44. 101

172. Dreams tumbled in unison. 102

173. Waiting for change. 102

174. Heroes are nothing more than memes. 102

175. Morning yawned. 102

Book 3. P. 53. 102

176. The past crumbles. 103

177. To be lost on a path. 103

178. Through adaption. 103

179. Remove the distance. 103

180. Fantasies Dreams Hopes Wishes. 104

Book 3. P. 131. 104

181. Up before dawn. 104

182. I didn’t set out to be the legs of a table. 104

Book 3. P. 104. 104

183. Carol Ann part 1. 105

Book 2. P. 55. 105

184. Carol Ann part 2. 105

Book 2. P. 55. 105

185. Impossible to embrace past 106

186. Analytical contentment 106

-----------END OF YORKE PENISULA TRIP-----------BACK ADELAIDE------------- 106

187. Resting now.. 106

188. I saw a bird try to be different 107

Book 3. P. 28. 107

189. Error at the crossroads. 107

190. I wanted you to be more than a poem to me. 107

191. I tried to keep up with my youth. 108

192. Take away the motion of emotions. 108

193. I was stunned when I discovered Gods. 108

194. Too much pleasure. 109

Book 3. P. 75. 109

195. I thought it was just another average dawn. 109

Book 3. P. 15. 109

196. Ten minutes before I was born. 109

Book 3. P. 123. 109

197. Poetry is more than. 109

198. Broken narratives. 110

Book 3. P. 142. 110

199. My mum was confused when I was born. 110

200. I watched plants. 111

Book 3. P. 59. 111

201. While waiting on a new start book 3. P. 93. 111

202. We made so much of so little. 112

Book 3. P. 62. 112

203. Our love an accident amongst nature. 112

Book 3. P. 39. 112

204. Difficulty with starting. 112

205. Without letters. 112

206. Too short the dream.. 113

Book 3. P. 64. 113

Lyell McEwin Hospital * 207 – 2--  ******************************. 113

207. I began ten minutes before the end. 113

208. Filled my time with thoughts of you. 113

Book 3. P. 56. 113

209. Syncing tomorrow’s embedded memory. 113

210. Alarmed by sameness. 114

211. You sleep in my bed. 114

212. While reflecting on what was not my life. 115

213. I was so proud to be. 115

214. She waltzed into my room.. 115

Book 3. P. 13. 115

215. So close to end of life. 116

216. The reason I close the window?. 116

217. The joy of being here. 116

218. I offered my services to a fleeting shadow.. 116

219. Now that you are one with the wind. 117

Book 3. P. 5. 117

220. Never could ride life with a saddle. 117

221. It is not my choices. 117

222. Doctors set out 118

Book 3. P. 106. 118

223. Stalled Book 3. P. 25. 118

224. Expectations at the start of a rainbow.. 118

225. Without limitations. 119

Book 3. P. 08. 119

226. Colourful sounds Book. 4 P. 41. 119

226. Scanned brain for alien-irregularities. 119

Book 3. P. 8. 119

227. Love as an experiment 120

228. Subtracting differences. 120

229. Morning came early today. 120

Book 3. P. 88. 120

228. We were so superior 120

229. After realizing I had said it all 121

230. Enough room for the rain. 121

231. At the goal line. 121

232. Without your love. 121

233. Safe before birth. 122

Book 3. P. 138. 122

234. I dreamt we were two wheels. 122

Book 3. P. 112. 122

235. Juggle struggle. 122

236. Following particles through air 122

237. While making a graph. 123

Book 3. P. 8. 123

238. Hopefully there will not be a nuclear war 123

239. Thankfully trends change. 124

240. To be lost in the maze of love. 124

Book 3. P. 136. 124

241. Ritualistic fulfilled desire. 124

242. An over calculated moment 124

243. Galloping hope. 125

244. With no physical distance left between us. 125

Book 3. P. 140 Group. 125

245. With death. 125

Book 3. P. 140 Group. 125

246. I filled a mold with dreams. 125

247. Took time out 126

Book 3. P. 18. 126

248. I wanted to gamble responsibly. 126

249. I wrapped several memories. 126

250. I cast a dream at the crossroads. 127

Written: 12/05/16 Port Parham, South Australia. 127

251. Drive-through love. 127

Written: 12/05/16 Port Parham, South Australia. 127

252. Fanfare at the start of our love. 127

253. Settled. 128

Book 3. P. 6. 128

254. When time bended back. 128

255. Once back in order 128

256. Put on a disguise. 129

257. While looking forward to tomorrow.. 129

258. If it wasn’t for the same technique. 129

259. The day after I forgot my name she called me. 130

260. My father was a world-class explorer 130

Book 3. P. 19. 130

261. While waiting for life to load. 131

262. Morning laughed at night 131

263. You live in hope. 131

Book 3. P. 107. 131

264. We talked about times no more. 131

265. Raced through. 132

266. Great people. 132

Book 3. P. 96. 132

267. My life. 132

Book 3. P. 116. 132

268. Because morning. 132

269. God was created. 133

270. Clouds moved in. 133

271. Streets we once laughed and played in. 134

Book 3. P. 43. 134

272. I wanted to chart our moments. 134

Book 3. P. 73. 134

273. Silhouettes quickly dissolving. 135

Book 3. P. 87. 135

274. In perfect proportion. 135

275. Too tired. 135

Book 3. P. 139. 135

276. I came second. 135

Book 3. P. 51. 135

277. Frolicking cells in the bottom chamber 136

278. Chosen. 136

279. Dream snippets. 136

280. I thought my love for you was sustainable. 136

281. I had a significant consciousness-opening life-altering. 137

Book 3. P. 46. 137

282. Your life was my life neither no more. 137

Book 3. P. 140 Group. 137

283. Preparations. 137

284. In a disruptive moment Book 3. P. 16. 138

285. Along the ridge of my dreams. 138

286. In the least amount of time. 138

Book 3. P. 89. 138

287. As I thought it would be. 138

Book 3. P. 104. 138

288. Sky screamed. 139

289. A chocolate covered dream.. 139

290. Such drama. 139

291. Unfortunately each iteration. 139

292. Unable to locate. 139

Book 3. P. 15. 140

293. All that you could have been. 140

294. So many connections. 140

295. The plane crashed into the sea. 140

296.Only I knew it was my turn. 141

Book 3. P. 41. 141

297. I thought love had gone cold. 141

298. Love’s mask removed. 141

299. Genetic consciousness. 141

300. Waiting on a phone call from god. 142

Book 3. P. 141. 142

301. So surprised to be at the same. 142

302. In the future. 142

303. Random thoughts. 143

304. I traded love for desire. 143

305. I went missing. 143

306. Expectantly. 143

307. We do today. 144

308. Ideas replaced books. 144

309. A dream drought 144

310. Numb to now.. 144

311. The pedestal 145

312. By sleeping through today. 145

313. I downloaded today. 145

314. With an average of eleven memories. 145

315. With you as a basic ingredient 146

316. I did every single one. 146

317. While jotting down. 146

318. Without morning’s fickle startup. 146

319. I went to sleep looking at a photo of you. 146

320. By stretching the truth. 147

Book 4. P. 6. 147

321. I thought it was a metaphor about my heart stopping. 147

322. Losing becomes victory’s favourite. 147

323. A radical moment 147

Book 4. P. 31. 147

324, Too bare the winter 147

325. Farmers smiled. 148

Book 4. P. 24. 148

326. Proclamations absorbed. 148

327. I stumbled on an idea. 148

328. My proposal 149

329. I tried living life in the space between. 149

Book 4. P. 40. 149

330. I was on the wrong side. 149

331. The paranoid dawn. 150

332. Bouncing about 150

333. Thoughts of you casting shadows in front of each step. 150

334. Food for thought 150

Book 4. P. 64. 151

335. After gathering most of it all 151

336. Weeds in my garden. 151

Book 4. P. 20. 151

337. Words replaced feeling. 151

Book 5. P. 132. 151

338. “I will be right back”. 152

339. No attempt was made to record the change. 152

340. Creation began. 152

Book 4. P. 124. 152

341. Barely halfway. 152

Book 4. P. 106. 152

342. Such a distressed tree. 152

Book 4. P. 71. 152

343. Now she wants me: 153

344. While reframing today. 153

345. Lined up. 154

Book 4. P. 26. 154

346. Dissolving walls. 154

Book 4. P.47. 154

347. Deconstructed love. 154

348. If I could do it over 155

349. On my way to Shakespeare Book 4. P. 61. 155

350. Disappearing into the midst 155

351. A slow start 155

352. Abundance’s regrets. 155

353. Failed to understand. 156

354. While replaying a memory-film.. 156

355. We finally die. 156

356. Only one last 156

357. Not ready for the change. 157

358. The robot that was created. 157

359. Unexpectedly: 157

Book 4. P. 122. 157

60. Challenge misinterpreted. 157

Book 5. P. 103. 157

361. Threatened by the extinction of feelings. 158

362. Soon after life on earth. 158

363. What will be. 158

364. While watching words float by. 158

365. Humans were domesticated by cats. 159

366. To chance the sail Book 5. P. 90. 159

367. Mapped a way. 159

368. Dissatisfied with the laws of gravity. 159

369. What we lost gained momentum.. 160

370. Without magic. 160

371. I reshaped my life so it would fit 160

Book 4. P. 78. 160

372. Scribbled thoughts. 160

373. Times before. 160

374. All you could have been. 161

375. You and I 161

376. I do not care about living in a zoo. 161

377. Life like love lingers longer 161

378. My secret lovers. 161

Book 4. P. 111. 161

379. Re-invented memory. 161

379. I followed you to the end of my dream.. 162

380. I was so far from the truth. 162

381. I stretched my mind. 162

382. In the distance I saw my past 163

383. I took a day off from being me. 163

Book 4. P. 68. 163

384. Silence beckoned an evening calm.. 164

385. Spark of desire. 164

386. You cried I laughed. 164

387. Soon after I died. 164

388. So many theories. 164

389. We swept change away. 165

390. I lined my dreams up. 165

391. Without interpretation. 165

392. Life is. 165

Book 4. P. 34. 165

393. We remembered how it was. 166

394. So much easier to tell ourselves lies. 166

395. I downloaded karma recognition software. 166

Book 4. P. 117. 166

396. On a miscellaneous planet 166

397. On the final test of my life. 167

Book 4. P 4. 167

398. I scribbled my sentiments for you. 167

399. Heavy with sleep. 167

400. As if life does not continue. 167

401. I had so much. 168

402. I turned to a whispering wind. 168

403. Life neatly sorted folded placed. 168

Book 4. P. 101. 168

404. Having come to. 169

405. Rung dry. 169

406. Next life time if I come back as a shrub. 169

407. A chance for peace. 170

408. I looked you up  on the internet 170

409. While assembling an explanation. 170

410. The more I like this moment 170

410. I forget who I am.. 170

411. During a practice of total difference. 171

412. Cast out from a lingering memory. 171

413. Found love amongst a tear gas lit alley. 171

414. I dreamt of success long after failure. 172

415. I am a minor actor in my life. 172

416. With so little working this morning. 172

417. I traded now for then. 173

418. I moved into. 173

Book 4. P. 66. 173

419. Yesterday. 173

420. Your body. 173

421. I knew something had changed. 174

422. In a moment of anxiety performance. 174

423. Ripened fruit at the end of the alley. 174

424. In a dangerous speculation. 174

425. I watched outside my window.. 175

426. Frustrated with creation’s lack of desire. 175

427. Since you died. 175

Book 4. P. 119. 175

428. Too few pages turned quickly. 175

429. Wisdom floated out to sea. 176

430. “Is this all I lived for”. 176

431. Lost power 176

432. Now that the pressure is off 177

Book 4. P. 73. 177

433. I looked for a ring tone. 177

434. I looked for a ring tone. 177

435. Not being prepared for sudden passsions. 178

Book 4. P. 8. 178

436. Dimly the moment shines. 178

437. In a superstitious ritual 179

Book 4. P.80. 179

438. In a blended good-bad moment 179

439. We hold hands walking through the mall 179

440. Sensing a new scent 180

441. Left behind. 180

442. I started erasing. 180

443. I googled myself 181

444. I lay naked in the paddock. 181

445. In a transformative moment 182

446. Free-will is the biggest threat 182

447. In fear of re-incarnation Book 4. P.  46 In fear of re-incarnation  as a human the weeds in my garden refused to die. 182

448. While waiting for inspiration. 182

449. In a 3-D printed memory. 182

450. I found you on Facebook. 183

Book 4. P. 83. 183

451. Left behind. 183

452. Dream surfing. 183

453. Limited to not being. 184

Book 4. P. 108. 184

454. Without you. 184

455. Your touch. 184

456. We met by chance. 184

457.Always knew.. 185

458. Analysing systems of love. 185

459. After 68-years. 185

460. Lost in the ways of love. 185

Book 4. P.  81. 185

461. Youth is evolution. 186

462. I tossed my GPS out the window.. 186

463. No need to change. 186

Book 4. P.92. 186

464. Your love was a treasure trove. 186

465. Without today’s end. 186

466. Soft the ache. 187

467. Changed times. 187

468. In fear of letting go. 187

469. New expressions. 187

470. I was learning a lesson in survival 187

Book 4. P. 51. 187

471. We were watching the finals. 188

472. Chasing shadows. 188

473. Legends passed on. 189

474. Nothing said. 189

475. Missing the moment 189

476. I closed my eyes. 190

477. Impressed by imperfection. 190

478. While quietly laying still 190

479. Mistakenly I was chosen to be. 190

480. By making tomorrow four hours shorter 191

481. Rolling was a direction. 191

482. Tomorrow your birthday. 191

483. So much done. 191

484. Unexpected. 192

485. So quick the change. 192

Book 4. P. 100. 192

486. Clear skies. 192

487. Too short our time together 193

488. Frequently in doubt 193

489. Frequently freedom flies. 193

490. I finally arrived at that magical place. 193

Book 4. P. 94. 193

491. Unwanted sounds. 194

Book 4 P. 85. 194

492. Desire soaked by the rain. 194

Book 4. P. 87. 194

493. I was attempting to get warm.. 194

494. While waiting for scribbled thoughts. 194

Book 4. P. 90. 194

495. In an appreciable moment 195

496. First page left blank. 195

497. Dead people. 195

498. Wind swept memories. 196

Book 4. P.126. 196

499. The individual creative artist genius. 196

Book 4. P. 14. 196

500. Love’s quiet whisper 196

501. In a haphazard dream.. 197

Book 4. P. 74. 197

502. I lost you on the horizon. 197

Book 4. P. 53. 197

503. I waited outside for you at the bus stop. 197

Book 4. P. 13. 197

504. Silence echoes through this rainforest 197

Book 5. P. 136. 197

505. As a vegetarian cannibal 198

506. So environmentally correct 198

507. According to popular conventional conspiracy. 198

508. While counting the stars in the sky. 198

509. Forever frequently frightened. 198

510. “All my hopes, dreams, wishes, never to eventuate”. 199

Book 4. P. 95. 199

511. Thrilled by differences. 199

512. The government’s stimulus independence package. 200

Book 4. P. 131. 200

513. On the curved road of love. 200

Book. 4 P. 134. 200

514. As luck would have it 200

Book 4. P. 88. 200

515. The note in the fortune cookie. 200

516. Deep in the tangled. 201

517. Last exit on the freeway of your love. 201

518. I lived my life in a titled world. 201

519. Obsessed by the flicker 202

520. Such a trendy experience. 202

521. In the darkened whisper 202

522.Writing non-stop. 202

Book 5. P. 127. 202

523. I wanted to be like you. 203

524. In a complicated moment 203

525. My analysis therapist 203

526. As a critic of the natural progression. 204

527. I was hungry. 204

528. In a self-explanatory moment 204

529. In a delusional epic of want 204

530. You lost hope I lost you. 205

531. In a pause. 205

532. These years passing by. 205

533. Camouflaged loss. 206

534. Blinded by a smothering loss. 206

535. I splattered thoughts of you. 206

Book 4. P. 98. 206

536. Navigating foggy thoughts. 206

Book 4. P. 48. 206

537. In this futile race. 207

538. I lost your love on the altar of hope gone wrong I lost your love on the altar of hope gone wrong. 207

539. Annoyed by all that goes wrong. 207

Book 5. P. 146. 207

540. Frightened about life alone. 207

541. “Relief”. 208

542. Celtic survival music. 208

543. While laughing in the moment 208

544. Love is a game. 209

545. Within my virtual sacrifice. 209

546. I started selling love insurance. 209

547. Redirected fantasy. 210

548. In the distance. 210

549. I won a night with her 210

Book 4. P. 22. 210

550. Your body was an aircraft carrier 210

551. Nature’s Evolution. 211

552. Abolished demolished. 211

553. Thrilled by the obscurity. 211

554. An untamed wind. 211

555. Maddening in its eloquence. 211

556. 87% of my life. 212

557. Blown gasket 212

558. In an ordinary dream.. 212

559. To inhale ubiquitous nature’s surroundings. 212

560. In a symphonic orgasm.. 212

Book 5. P. 62. 212

561. While meditating on this moment 213

562. Unable to rest easily. 213

Book 4. P. 128. 213

563. In a random whispered secret 213

564. Remembering quiet 213

565. Listening to a foreign radio station. 214

566. ‘PLOT THICKENED’ ‘PLOT THICKENED’ 214

567. In a ripped moment 214

568. While observing thoughts. 215

569. After being off on holiday. 215

570. In a dwindling perspective. 215

571. Surprising in its implication. 215

572. During a memory leakage. 216

573. What a bummer 216

574. In a case of mistaken identity. 216

575. When I once lived in the flower garden. 216

576. In a disappointed moment 217

577. In a moment of lost intent 217

578. Got to a position. 217

580. The last chance I had to be successful 217

581. The odds of being me is one in seven-plus billion. 217

582. In great anticipation. 217

583. I went beyond all expectation. 218

Book 4. P. 15. 218

584. In all the excitement of being me again. 218

585. One of life’s great pleasures. 218

586. Reflective love. 218

587. I watched the moment 219

Book 4. P. 137. 219

28/07/16 - Perseverance Road, South Australia. 219

588. While watching a waiting moment 219

589. An evening’s taste of success. 219

590. The bubble I live in is available. 219

591. Once settled with the new rountine. 219

592. It is not the short time we spent together 220

593. With no time left love transported. 220

594. I downloaded one of those ads on Facebook. 220

595. All went to how we did not plan. 220

596. All through time. 221

597. I tripped over my words ad, South Australia. 221

598. Too long the fruit on the trees. 221

599. In a most un-creative plagiarizing moment 222

Book 4. P. 42. 222

600. In a losing battle. 222

601. Spent love. 222

Book 4. P. 29. 222

602. too short the thought 222

Book 5. P. 17. 222

603. Today went by so fast 222

604. In a desperate challenge. 223

605. “to quiet the summer”. 223

606. You could have heard my voice. 223

607. So easy to dream.. 223

608. 3-D printers can make so much. 224

609. I lost my compass on the path of love. 224

610. In a hastily conceived feeling. 224

611. We started slow.. 224

Book 4. P. 76. 224

612. So much better 224

613. Living life in a trance. 225

614. Captured freedom bottled and sold. 225

615. In an ill-conceived fantasy. 225

616. The banging, crashing, pounding. 226

617. In a most delicious moment 226

Book 4. P. 26. 226

618. In a most social moment 226

619. Constructed love. 226

620. The future never looked so bright 227

621. We took to the streets protesting the loss of love. 227

622. My desires captured. 227

623. I memorised the hills and valleys. 227

624. I smiled evening sky smiled back. 227

625. Quick capture the sun set 228

626. While living in la la land. 228

627. Humans are a result of creation. 228

628. Complications of the past made construction of today. 228

629. While putting my life on pause. 228

630. Love sailed in a century ago. 229

631. While standing still the world sped by. 229

632. Life is just a temporary pause. 229

Book 4. P. 133. 229

633. While beating my own non-Olympic record. 229

634. In a spherical theatrical rotation. 230

Book 4 P. 113. 230

635. So similar to today was to a day past spent 230

636. What was a barrier between yesterday and today. 230

637. While lining up dreams. 230

638. As if I would not count the years passed by. 231

639. During a borrowed sequence of past memories. 231

640. As if time were producible. 231

641. I put a box out to catch all the thoughts. 231

642. Love became so intoxicating. 232

643. Love with you. 232

Book 4. P. 5. 232

644. Thrilled by the obscurity of your touch. 232

645. Frequently lost on the horizon. 232

646. What is most enjoyable about the muddled confusion. 233

647.Feeling lucky to have lived so long. 233

648. Surprised by sudden sunrise. 233

649. In a most silly thought 233

650. Surrender was only part of the battle plan. 234

651. Row row your boat 234

652. As with any failure. 234

Book 4. P. 113. 234

653. So short this life. 235

654. Comets a better life than planets have. 235

655. In a recurring dream.. 235

Book 4. P. 20. 235

656. Waiting for disappointment 235

657. Today’s performance was so perfect 236

658. I am sorry you no longer miss me. 236

659. In a difficult scenario I forgot my role. 236

670. In an ill-swept memory. 236

671. Too funny such streams of dreams. 236

672. Impossible quickly flies. 236

673. Feeling suddenly patriotic. 237

674. My last thought before I died. 237

Book 4. P. 142. 237

675. Unable to stop. 237

676. Frequently waiting on the sideline. 237

677. While waiting for inspiration morning rose evening set 238

678. Embezzled love. 238

679. Melting into you. 238

680. Your sustained touch. 238

681. Not being different 238

682. Out of my depth. 239

Book 4. P. 105. 239

683. Life reduction. 239

684. Before you. 239

685. My life. 239

686. I waited for you on the corner 239

687. All I chose in every sport 240

688. So easy to love you. 240

689. I met my quota today. 240

690. When the curtain closes. 240

681. More than needed at my call 241

682. I knew today would be different 241

683. Frequently frightening futures without 241

684. The start of our universe. 241

685. As a creative love mapping technique. 241

686. I asked my doctor for a prescription. 242

687. Waiting. 242

688. In a routine life-altering. 242

689. Sail with me on this quiet breeze. 242

690. In a faraway galaxy. 242

691. Your touch. 243

692. I rounded up all my favourite dreams. 243

693. I tricked myself into believing. 243

694. Too many stories. 243

695. Unconcerned about the beginning of time. 244

696. In a most sexy moment 244

697. Always treating trending moments equal 244

698. I took a day off from being me. 244

699. I returned to a time before the clowns of sorrow.. 245

700. I lost my way when you locked the door 245

701. I looked up a list of people trending now book 4. P. 55. 245

702. Just saw on the internet 245

Book 5. P. 86. 245

703. The equation did not match. 246

704. In an unexpected sequence of events. 246

705. Time ran out but love stayed. 246

706. Very excited to see your reflection. 247

Book 4. P. 69. 247

707. While planning the future. 247

708. With a slight scent of love. 247

Book 4. P. 59. 247

709. Sensitive sensual sensations. 248

710. Alarmed by the constant terrible news. 248

711. A new to us planet 248

712. Flowers in the gutter washing toward the sea. 248

713. Tempting in its discovery. 248

714. The abstraction of the wind’s tormented self 249

715. In a most stressful moment 249

716. Excited by your departure. 249

717. So full the moments purpose. 249

718. In a non-illustratable breath. 250

719. In a shocking miscarriage of justice. 250

Book 4. P. 33. 250

720. Not knowing. 250

Book 4. P. 120. 250

721. Lined up against the wall 250

722. Your love became buried treasure. 251

723. In an incredible instance of a missed opportunity. 251

724. In a struggle of re-inventing myself 251

725. In a fast flowing fancy fantasy. 251

Book 4. P. 70. 251

726. In a short-term memory lapse. 252

727. In a strange change of plans. 252

728. For the short time the light was on. 252

729. Tomorrow I will go a new direction. 252

730. New stuff 253

Book 4. P. 84. 253

731. Embedded images of you. 253

732. In an easily forgotten moment 253

733. Along the edge of life. 253

Book 5. P. 116. 253

734. In a confusing moment 254

735. Circumventing surrounded surrendered dreams. 254

736. Embarrassed by who you thought I once was. 254

737. Without a conspiracy. 254

738. Without flow.. 254

739. I watched life pass by in a sun-reflecting bubble. 255

740. Troubled by the knowledge of multiple. 255

741. Love’s imitation of dawn’s final call 255

742. Umbrella of change. 255

743. I predicted you would live forever 256

744. Originally this change in pattern. 256

745. Whispers in the wind. 256

746. I look in the mirror 256

747. I don’t wish to know.. 256

748. While waiting for something to do. 257

749. While saving/hoarding so much for the future. 257

750. While waiting to grow old. 257

751. I waited all night to hear you sing. 257

Bk. 4 P. 11. 257

752. When you won me. 258

753. I borrowed some ideas from blooming flowers. 258

754. Perhaps mingled with maybe. 258

755. In youth I sampled love. 259

Book 4. P. 125. 259

756. In a sleepy dreamed filled moment 259

757. In a flawed romantic moment 259

758. Such a victory. 259

759. With the meltings. 260

760. Such a walk this morning. 260

761. While writing about my past 260

Book 4. P. 28. 260

762. From the excitement of what dream will I have tonight 261

763. Psychic theoretical narcissistic conspiracists with mixed agendas. 261

Book 5. P. 27. 261

764. From whispering digital readouts. 261

765. Unsure what I wanted to be remembered for 261

Book 4. P. 118. 261

766. Manipulated memories distilled and stored. 262

767. Shadowed by a foreign accent 262

768. In a sun-warmed moment 262

769.     “Global Warming”. 262

770. In an endless search I found what I had lost 262

771. My old world transformed. 263

772. Overwhelming was the thought 263

773. “Almost Cannibal”. 263

774. Too short the sleep. 263

775. Changed texture. 263

Book 4. P. 5. 263

776. In a time of rhyme. 263

777. In a too long ago vision. 264

778. Randomly selected sequences of love. 264

779. Surrealistic surprise. 264

780. All knowledge accumulated soon to be disproved. 264

781. Disappointed outcomes. 264

782. While searching for a happy thought 265

783. Creative chance changes captured a fleeting feeling. 265

784. In a most irritable moment 265

785. I wish I could have. 265

786. All together 265

787. Your smile. 266

788. Similar simple motions. 266

789. Lost in my garden looking for life. 266

790. Forgot to wait and went forward. 266

791. I thought I was being clear 267

792. Pretending to be flowers. 267

Book 4. P. 139. 267

793. I left a note of insignificance at the temple. 267

794. I never lost my way. 267

795. Too often gone. 268

796. Particularly those looking forward. 268

797. Tomorrow when I return to being me. 268

798. I thought I saw Elvis at the end of my street 268

Book 4. P. 43. 268

799. Saving the best for last 268

800. I taught my shadow.. 269

Book 4. P. 93. 269

801. While in orbit around your love. 269

802. So quick this short time has passed. 269

803. Flooded memories swept away. 269

804. I was put on the spot when morning asked. 270

Book 4. P. 16. 270

805. I changed the ending. 270

806. Laughter released. 270

807. Saw you again. 270

808. To calm the still held memory of you lingers. 271

809. If we could be. 271

810. Love is a mirage. 271

Book 4. P. 107. 271

811. So perfect chaos is leaving me. 272

812. Today ended like I knew it would. 272

813. I knew the end was near 272

814. While waiting time stopped. 272

815. Too plain the pain. 273

816. Watching changes. 273

Book 4. P . 91. 273

817. Lost at the corner under cover 273

818. Unlike today. 273

819. Without a lock. 273

820. No wonder 274

821. After tossing my hat 274

822. Unable to dance. 274

823. Dwindled to bite-size memory. 274

824. Changed switched direction. 274

825. Inspired by yesterday. 275

826. When we were wild. 275

Book 4. P. 25. 275

827. Freedom flew fast 275

828. I buried myself in the back garden. 275

829. There was always more to do. 276

830. In an alternative reality. 276

831. Lasting longer than a passing flash. 276

832. Flowers picked to day. 276

833. Unable to end I started over 276

834. I blended you with me. 277

835. In a shocking tale of memory collisions. 277

836. Unsure to why the direction we took. 277

837. Planned extinction. 277

838. Unlike most illusions. 278

839. In a slowly evolving progressive space. 278

840. Tomorrow they will take me apart 278

Book 4. P. 45. 278

841. There is so much to worry about 278

Book 4. P. 35. 278

842. Such a changed environment 279

843. As if now was the time. 279

844. Along a shortcut 279

Book 4. P. 54. 279

845. While lost in your narrative. 280

846. The past lay strewn across the present 280

847. Concerned with today’s appearance. 280

848. In a grand gesture of sympathetic climate change. 280

849. It has become perfectly clear 281

850. In a bouncing untethered clear sphere. 281

851. In an impossible scenario. 281

852. So totally confused. 282

853. Frustrated at the outcome to what could have been. 282

854. Frozen laughter shook the landscape. 282

855. I lost you in the rear-view mirror 282

856. Finally time to fill this blank book. 283

Book 4. P. 67. 283

857. While in la la land. 283

858. While waiting for the effect to wear off 283

859. As a lot less to much more. 283

860. Out of reach gives strength and motivation. 283

861. This morning the river of knowledge. 284

862. Forced completion. 284

863. As a final howl 284

Book 4. P. 38. 284

864. Too busy to match yesterday’s. 284

865. Morning tried to befriend me. 285

Book 4. P. 3. 285

866. As a black and white painter 285

867. I received a dangerous driving summons. 285

868. An un-assisted feeling of love over took a moment of doubt 285

869. While constructing a new religion. 286

Book 4. P. 19. 286

870. Far out into the depth. 286

871. Covered majestic peaks with dreams of 286

872. Being so ignorant for such a vital time. 287

873. Too many interpretations of the way it was. 287

874. At the grave of the unknown winner 287

875. I butchered the English language. 287

876. Unable to define what I defend. 287

877. So many declare themselves so different 288

878. I broke. 288

879. Now that the end is here. 288

880. I dream my life. 288

881. Out of a vat 288

882. In a definitive defining declaration. 289

883. Girl with curls swirls furls. 289

884. Knowing life has been spent 289

885. I closed the door 289

886. Whispers in the wind. 290

887. Who I was yesterday. 290

888. Too often the dead taunt me. 290

889. Choppy seas stormy life. 290

890. I went to the shop. 290

891. Shadows of love. 291

892. Shadows of love. 291

893. Fantasy plagued dreams. 291

894. I became lost in my journey. 291

895. With so few steps taken. 292

896.I lost a poem but gained a set of words. 292

897. No one called. 292

898. Green divided by blue. 292

899. We lined up in anticipation. 292

900. I wish I had spent more time knowing you better 293

901. Light touch. 293

902. Innocence on parade. 293

903. I promised you a magic carpet 294

904. The journey from dawn to sunset 294

905. In a gentler time the wind was playful 294

906. I keep going back. 295

907. With nothing left to interpret 295

908. I went to the shop. 295

909. I went to sleep hungry. 295

910. My father died aged 102. 296

911. I heard a herd of elephants. 296

Book 4. P. 32. 296

912. I overheard God speaking with a crippled beggar 296

Book 4. P. 18. 296

913. I write self-inflicted poems. 296

914. Being the last to hear the news. 297

Book 4. P. 23. 297

14/10/16 Melbourne / Re. Dylan & Nobel literature win Australian Centre for the Moving Image Federation Square Melbourne, Australia. 297

915. So often getting it wrong. 297

916. In an unsettled song. 297

917. Once so believable. 297

918. In a fickle trickle of passing infatuations. 299

919. Roasted love. 299

920. In a limited fashion. 299

921. The rivers passed me by. 299

922. Disappointed at the array of colours. 299

923. What needs wild animals have. 300

Book 4. P. 102. 300

924. I leapt forward in time. 300

925. In a slow progress of time. 300

926. While erasing non-sensible. 301

927. Upon a jingle juggling jungle journey. 301

Book 4. P. 112. 301

928. A weed became the voice of my garden. 301

929. Such feelings. 301

930. Each day’s ritual consisting of changes out of control 302

931. Limited to silence. 302

932. A quick thunderstorm.. 302

Book 4. P. 91. 302

933. A far flung favourite feature. 302

934. I fell to sleep. 302

935. Freed from falling forward. 303

936. I reached beyond where I could imagine. 303

937. In an ill-conceived notion of self-importance. 303

938. Hopefully today will be remembered. 303

939. I spent so long setting down foundations. 304

940. Watching winners become losers. 304

941. As unfamiliar territory loomed across the horizon. 304

942. Easily the wind blows true. 304

943. I heard a youthful voice. 305

944. After viewing my favourite conspiracy site. 305

Book 4. P. 37. 305

945. Last time together 305

Book 4. P. 17. 305

946. Extremes merge blurry mirages. 306

947. Change has no patience. 306

948. I am the tree in the forest 306

949. I was in flight 307

950. Acting like a warrior king saint 307

951. Quick decision. 307

952. We sacrificed routine on the altar of change. 307

953. Trying to predict the future. 308

954. Instructions lost to where to being. 308

955. Finished. 308

956. Phases without end. 308

957. Unappreciated. 309

958. We pushed through these hard times. 309

Book 4. P. 86. 309

959. Glazed over passing memory. 309

960. So easy to forget 309

961. Memory drifting. 309

962. Little worthwhile was said. 310

Book 4. P. 96. 310

963. I tripped and fell 310

964. I upgraded my happiness to bliss. 310

Book 4. P. 151. 310

965. Funny patterns flash shattered shadows. 310

Book 4. P. 103. 310

966. There was never another way. 311

967. Hold the moment 311

968. Sorry to see you leave. 311

969. I cast myself forward. 312

970. When the weeds in my garden. 312

Book 4. P. 132. 312

971. I watched snails racing across my garden. 312

971. So many steps yet left 312

972. Sitting on my special cloud. 312

973. I knew the way freedom seemed such a simple task. 313

974. We all lined up. 313

Book 4. P. 103. 313

975. Wonders wild were lost 313

976. At the end of the moment 313

977. I gathered together my five favourite friends. 314

Book 4. P. 146. 314

978. I fear that by stopping. 314

979. Such good news. 314

981. Unable to move forward. 315

982. I stocked up on magical memory moments. 315

983. I got halfway through a shortened thought 315

984. Rapidly rotating random love. 316

985. I have nothing more to remember you by. 316

986. The weeds in my garden. 316

Book 4. P. 27. 316

987. While pretending to be. 316

Book 4. P. 127. 316

988. We tried following the wind. 316

989. In a playful serenading performance. 317

990. On my journey from your toes to your lips. 317

991. I saw you in my kitchen window.. 317

Book 4. P. 60. 317

992. So different 318

993. While counting the stars in the sky. 318

994. Chance without choice. 318

995. I hung onto this month. 318

996. Wondering where you went 319

997. The stats are in  Bk 4. P. 62. 319

998. Continued stopped continued. 319

999. From most to least 319

1000. Replaced now with then. 320

1001. Mistakes filtering through so much perfection. 320

1002. Laid here thinking how great it would be. 320

1003. Back up plans. 320

1004. Today passed by without incident 320

1005. Unable to lead. 321

1006. On a non-creative day. 321

Book 4. P. 153. 321

1007. Fed up with my greeting the dawn with. 321

Book 4. P. 152. 321

1008. Bouncing meanings landed. 322

1009. Excited by the news of innovation. 322

Book 4. P. 116. 322

1010. Left behind. 322

1011. Inconsistent dreams. 322

1012. In an empty corner of time. 323

1013. Collections laying alongside the street 323

1014. I was improving daily so rapidly. 323

1015. Wonderful whereabouts. 323

1016. With the end of humanity. 324

1017. Observation for the moment 324

1018. We told stories. 324

1019. Inside outside. 324

1020. Unbelievable choices. 324

1021. While thinking of stores to write. 325

1022. Another great start to the day. 325

1023. Unable to fathom what we wanted. 325

1024. Knowing the difference. 325

1025. Settled confusion. 326

1026. In an unpredictable moment 326

1027. I cheered for the losing side. 326

1028. To make today different 326

1029. In the alley behind the local robotic brothel 326

1030. We could have been fantastic together 327

1031. Fortunate for my imagination. 327

Book 4. P. 135. 327

1032. Long before there was an after 327

1033. We were in a hurry. 327

1034. Concerned tomorrow would bend over 327

1035. Shocked by the unbelievability. 328

1036. No matter the chaos. 328

Book 4. P. 136. 328

1037. 328

1038. In search of a happy thought 329

1039. All so new.. 329

1040. Goodnight to the morning. 329

1042. The once was the way. 329

1043. Too sleepy to conquer the world. 329

1044. Too short the time. 330

1045. I reached upward. 330

1046. Found songs. 330

1047. First one here. 330

Book 4. P. 153. 330

1048. Squeezed too much. 331

1049. Morning compromised. 331

1050. Tip-toed through her garden. 331

1051. Not sure what I feel is in-line. 331

1052. Winds blew my ripped-up memories. 332

1.      Like any good audience. 332

Book 3. P. 7. 332

2.      Being with you. 332

3.      You had a choice. 332

4.      Those beliefs that you defended so fiercely all your life. 332

Book 3. P. 140 part of a group. 332

5.      I still call my six-foot thirteen-year-old. 333

6.      Anger toward you to create a villain. 333

7.      I tried to duplicate the me. 333

Book 3. P. 29. 333

8.      Chilly chilly Pass the spring please Book 3. P. 92. 333

9.      I enjoy entertaining my fantasies. 333

10.        I counted on you to raise the flag. 334

Book 3. P. 31. 334

11.        And when they said it was going to rain. 334

Book 3. P. 49. 334

12.        I wrote your name. 334

13.        I like the way you look. 334

Book 3. P. 111. 334

14.        Magic was in your eye. 334

15.        It wasn’t my wanting you so. 335

16.        Like any man playing with his trucks. 335

Book 4. P. 135. 335

from webpage. 335

17.        Another morning waking. 335

18.        When I whispered. 336

From webpage http://www.neuage.org/picture_poems/drinking.html 336

19.        I got so angry. 336

20.        “Wall to wall dreams. 337

 

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1.    Celebrates come and go

 

Celebrates come and go

Passing past

Our fading horizons

Pleasing moment’s entertainment

Soon replaced by the next

Fleeting famous one

But you and I

To one another

we are always

celebrates celebrating

All we are

Opening and closing

Windows into worlds we view

As passing pasts to a world

We will never share

As they pass us

Faster than we can imagine.

January 12 2016

 

2.    I merge yesterday’s

I merge yesterday’s

scribbled thoughts

With photoshopped images

of today

So tomorrow can recall

the past

if then sucks now

needing replacements

from merged befores

12/01/16

 

3.    Island of make-believe

Book 2 p. 87

Sitting on the beach

       Island of make-believe

She passed by speaking French

       I was speaking gibberish

Our feet became entangled

In the most foreign way

Language never was a barrier

Movement hinders time

But not in the sand

Wave after wave swept us out to sea

Landing on rocks never imagined

Waking in my hammock on the beach

Hearing a distant muffled voice

My wife saying

“Were you having a dream dear?”

Bus Kep to Phnom Penh 1/31/16

 

4.    Corner of Ten before twelve and ten after midnight

Book 1 P. 30

I was standing at the corner of

Ten before twelve and ten after midnight

One foot in yesterday the other in today

Looking for signs of tomorrow

Watching traffic by-passing

my grid-locked life

If only I could remember the password

To retrieve my deserted life

I would join others

In their detour of my life.

I can see through the thickets of time

Mountains climbed

When I looked forward toward the future.

But did not see now

     Valleys loved in now covered in thorns

      Rivers of sunken dreams

      Memories fading

               Stolen by false beliefs

Empty and forgotten

       Eyes open

       Everything new

How exciting today will be.

28/01/16 on bus Phnom Penh to Kep, Cambodia

5.    Looked for a new line

Looked for a new line

To test an old story

Seasoned echoes showed me

As the last peasant on the border

Of love and hope.

How could I tell a new generation

my story when their online story passes by

at the rate of a thousand eyes per posting?

My life like my server

Too slow

With no views

Everyone likes their own posts

No one sees my sorry-ass avatar

‘An image of me three-life-times ago’

When I was the first peasant on the corner

Of love and hope

Now I just ramble

And become lost

In everyone’s confusion.

1/30/16 Kep Cambodia

6.    Erased yesterday’s thoughts

Erased yesterday’s thoughts

Clogged mind

Needing a new data plan

Abbreviated longings in a world

Of disposable beliefs, fleeting cyber heroes,

And dissolving avatars

I seek to juggle

Everything with nothing at all

Stop the bus

Drop me off in a rural dream

Pass past pollution so I can transcend now

And merge with

A newly last week discovered celestial body

That I will be in a distant dream.

Bus Kep to Phnom Penh 1/31/16

7.    The chimes of times

The chimes of times

Quickly replacing

Tomorrow’s dreams

Of us being free

Like we were

Before chimes of times

Longing to forget

Block now

And futures too

January 12 2016

8.    Re- writing history

Re- writing

History

Of myself

Vanquishing my loser- self

Championing the victorious

New nation of me

So future times

Will celebrate my winning self

Once I awaken

From the slums of me.

Kep to Phnom Penh 1/31/16

9.    Universal love

Universal love

Like any other inner-galactic

Sporting trophy

Is an OK award.

I hope someone receives one

So we can see what it looks like.

1-31-16 Kep to Phnom Penh

10.                   I wanted my poem to last

Book 2 P. 99

I wanted my poem

To last longer than

Two or three ‘likes’

In a fast passing digital

Whirling dervish social swirl

Of on-line insignificance

So I had my poem

Tattooed on my thigh

In Khmer.

Foolish me

She spelt the word

Transcendence wrong.

Bus to Phnom Penh 1/31/16

Make page of images

Text = life is

 

Sit com

‘Bitches and Bastards’

Retired school teachers start

11.                   I wish I had thought of that

Book 2 P.99

I wish I had thought of that

I said to a rising sun

Covering naked island girls

With blankets of warmth

On shifting sands

That was once my life.

3 February 2016 Phnom Penh

12.                   Applause at landing

Applause at landing

I could hear them so clearly

Were they happy to see me

How did they know?

A gathering of the elite

The applause grew louder

Drums

Then a band

I could hear them as if they were on the same plane as me

I looked out the window

We were just touching down

I did not see crowds of people

But I could hear them

I was so excited

Felt so important

My moment finally arrived

I felt a tug on my arm

‘wake up dear

Take the headphones off we are landing”

It was someone else arriving on stage in my music

Not me in the dream of me

And once again

I arrived without applause

But glad for whatever comes next.

February 09 flight to Bangkok

13.                   Two bytes short of a perfect poem

Book 2 p. 34

Feeling so much pressure

Replaces the best I could do

Leaving me two bytes short

Of a perfect poetic thought

Bus to chiang mai 13/02/16

14.                   Downloaded your love

Downloaded your love

Implanted your touches

Embedded your fantasies

Freedom forever

Never being me again

Bus to Chiang Mai 13/02/16

15.                   Recycled dreams

Book 2 P. 18

Recycled dreams

Environmentally safe

You and I

On a distant galaxy.

Kampot, February 5 2016

16.                   Quietly love consumes

Quietly love consumes somber truths

washing away liberal deficiencies wasted on youth

as the desires consummated in melting moment’s passions

produce life-long wants to return to when freedom

was an organism lasting for months

wasteful fantasies wished for but never relived.

21/01/16 Chiang Mai

17.                   Drawn Conclusions

Drawn conclusions

Interrupted creativity

Deconstructed parables

Myths overturned

I believed in us

History did not

Walking alone

On a deserted beach

Conclusions interrupted.

21/02/16 Chiang Mai – our apartment

18.                   Blended visions

Blended visions

Fluorescent sounds

Echoed feelings

Melting dreams

Taste of you

So easily imagined

Chiang Mai 21/02/16

19.                   I hid in the alley

I hid in the alley as crowds chanted

“free the dead”

Knowing I would not need to wait much longer

To be free too!

Chiang Mai 21/02/16

20.                   My dreams spilt out

My dreams spilt out

Creating puddles of fast flowing colours

a tsunami

Drowning out my wishful thinking

Chiang Mai 21/02/16

21.                   Riding away

Book 2 P. 71

Riding away never knowing where

The dream always the same

You at the end

Photo/Written: 21/02/16 Chiang Mai, Thailand

22.                   So excited to hear you say yes

Book 2 P. 54

So excited

To hear you say yes

Again

If only I could stop waking

From these dreams

I would believe you

21/02/16

23.                   Lined up

Lined up

As if a pains free day

Equals a manifest of freedom

I fail in my bid

To understand what comes next

And throw myself

Into the lion’s den

To acquire the pain

I so do deserve

21/02/16

24.                   Love is a magician

Love is a magician

Making me disappear

Each time it comes my way

21/2/16

25.                   Free of beliefs

What I enjoy most

About being dead

Is being free of beliefs.

January 12, 2016 Phnom Penh

26.                   I became another year older

I became another year older

It was not my birthday

I wore a new set of clothes

Though I was naked

I breathed fresh air deeply

I was in space

I counted my blessings

Because I was dead

January 12, 2016 Phnom Penh

27.                   Will my poems remember me

Will my poems remember me
After I die
Like no one else will

February 6 bus to Kampot

28.                   To dream again

To dream again like when I was an orphan
To hope again like when I had
So little for my children
To thank creation
Like when I was offered tokens of love
To believe again…
Sweating now in a void
Coughing in a vacuum
Cringing at my end
Wasted life
No way to do it again
Except to lie to myself
“yes you did well
Good on ya
Your ashes will be added to dustbowl
Sweeping these last days of a once
Feasible life
Away.

February 6 bus to Kampot

29.                   Reflected echoes of pleasure

Book 2 P. 144

The joy of this moment
Reflected echoes of pleasure
Of a night before

24/02/16 Chiang Mai

30.                   At the shrine of the unknown god

At the shrine of the unknown god
I place a portrait
Of myself
To enhance
My unknownness

24/02/16 Chiang Mai

31.                   Too short the thought

Book 2 P.148

Too short the thought
no explanation
possible
limited
possibilities
love finally

24/02/16 Chiang Mai

32.                   I followed the instructions

I followed the instructions
“how to become lost in love”
reflections of you
smudged memories
as mist settled
over a lost dream
of a restless past.

24/02/16 Chiang Mai

33.                   Past flashes pass

Past flashes pass
“crash bang” sang time
I recall what saw after all
sum total
composite composition
this moment’s future
reinvented past
pieced together
for tomorrow

22/02/16 Chiang Mai

34.                   Mechanical dreams

Mechanical dreams
sprayed into our minds
no longer left to wonder
newly created me
such a good citizen
blended into
such a mix of you and then
now
me.

24/02/16 Chiang Mai

35. Calisthenics of love

I met her the morning after winning the Olympic gold medal for
the calisthenics of love
A solitary figure shadow dancing
alongside a dreamless alley
lighted only by her breathing

My vision was disconnected when
monks from yesterday’s temples
disrupted then interrupted me
as they caressed a sacred cow
chanting my names in broken dialects of nonsense
They looked like Halloween pumpkins rotting in the sun
lined up for a full moon festival.

I always get confused between religious and secular orgasms
I pushed away the robed intruders
and touched the Olympic winner

But I was terribly wrong
my delirious perceptions failed me 
there was no love no chanting pumpkin monks
I was just waking sober on yesterday’s crossroad
a foreigner lost once again
in a distant mist
hugging a stop sign.

25/02/16 Chian Mai

35.                   New page new book knew life

New page new book
knew life
few knew.
This moment so grand.
If only could recycle
it often
to become
a permanent now

Then all I would know
would be what I knew.

26/02/16 business class to Singapore

36.                   Finals

Book 2 P. 17

Final
no more
close the door
open next
passages
death
birth
blank
future
the miracle of change
free to leave
free to enter
the future
wild as love’s first scent

27/02/16 Singapore flight business class Singapore to Melbourne

37.                   Amongst the ashes

Amongst the ashes
of past dreams
I found the will
to live another moment
and enter a new dream

27/02/16 Singapore flight business class Singapore to Melbourne

38.                   Love a final background

Love a final background
in my dying wishes

27/02/16 Singapore flight business class Singapore to Melbourne

39.                   Sun broke through

Sun broke through
cleared away clouds
your touch
now so easy to inhale
your scent
so easy to feel
your whispers
so easy to understand
now
before cloud-covered-hope returns

27/02/16 Singapore flight business class Singapore to Melbourne

40.                   Home – islands of memories

Home
island of memories
flying over
distant thoughts
vanishing
home now
above these clouds
pointing toward the sun
avoiding looking
at the ground below
my city, my street, my trees
my home
passing over
let me stay here
in the clouds
on this flight to elsewhere

27/02/16 Singapore flight business class Singapore to Melbourne

41.                   Scientifically

Scientifically
we are not sure
if we are coming
or going
proof and theories are in flux
beliefs changing
However within the sphere
between
coming and going
scientifically we know
we are not standing still
or are we

27/02/16 Singapore flight business class Singapore to Melbourne

42.                   Today ended

Today ended
like everyone before
in excited anticipation
of what comes next
all that we are
so much more
tomorrow
we will be

27/02/16 Singapore flight business class Singapore to Melbourne

43.                   I changed

Book 2. P. 145

I changed but no one noticed
I changed but I looked the same
I changed I forget who I once was
now I am a statue in my chamber
blended yesterdays
waiting on nuclear storms to vanish me
so I can be born again
as me

01/03/16 45 Southey Road Elwood

END OF SIX WEEKS AWAY

44.                   The journey’s end

Book 1 P. 92

The journey’s end
proven successful
not by dreams fulfilled
but by distance travelled
and stories left behind

3/03/2016 147 Perseverance Road

45.                   Simple said in few words

Ten words 50 characters with spaces

Simple said in few words
simpler done with a touch

Waking in your scent

3/03/2016 147 Perseverance Road

46.                   I thought my love for you was a virus

Book 2 P.44

I thought my love for you was a virus
now deleted
I am unable to reboot my life without you

3/03/2016 147 Perseverance Road

47.                   Yesterday’s sketch

Yesterday’s sketch
wind traced motionless memories
outlining transparent centres
filled with meaningless reflections
of tomorrow kneeling undressed
beckoning fulfillment
“take me” I sing out of tune
“I am naked too”
but chaotic echoes laugh in the wind
saying my name upside down and backwards
in muted three-dimensional sounds
laughing in the wind.
So I get on to a bus
and cuddled up to strangers
who see me as an online outline
for a joke they want to play on a digital lover
No one colours me in
leaving me to start another day blankly

3/03/16 on bus to hospital to see Narda

48.                   I tried to escape

Book 2 P. 113

I tried to escape the next memory
by pretending a favourite one would be next
not the one glaring at me for recognition
BUT
Morning’s magical mystical mist
made me be me
out of context without content
Just another cardboard cutout
along this winding dreamless cliff
where life pushes me over knowing what happens next
will be tomorrow’s yesterday’s memory

3/03/16 Royal Adelaide seeing Narda

49.                   We set the record

Book 2 P. 154

We set the record
no winners ever again
losers
just a forgotten hashtag
at the end of time
equality set us apart
from history’s division
neither us
nor them
we have become
perfected segments
of a work in progress
a future completed whole
when each of us competes
for nothing at all

3/03/16 147 Perseverance Road

50.                   If you had waited

If you had waited to end your life
until after mine had ended
I would never have known
that I knew almost nothing at all
about you
and these past thirteen years
would have unfolded kindly
an unwrapped you
celebrating life that you tossed away
before we got to know
all you could be

3/03/16 147 Perseverance Road

51.                   While floating downstream

While floating downstream
avoiding
rapids, falls, obstructions, extinction
I stretched imagination
to its breaking point
letting it burst forth
a rusty damn leaking
floods of sequential thoughts
drowning out crowed ideas
I tried to swim
but my arms and legs were wrapped
around a miscellaneous lover
leaving me no explanation
to why climate change rambles
past a cremated earth
that is no longer a topic of love forgotten
or why my dreams like my thoughts
are so fragmented, broken, breathless
and not held together by the confusion
I float through life upon.

3/03/16 147 Perseverance Road

52.                   On my way to now

On my way to now
I ran out of time and space
The moon rose
clouds formed
rain fell
I lay down in a field
to rest from nothing at all
if I awake tomorrow
I will continue my search
for time and space
and all I will do
with my new found reason to breathe

03/03/16 147 Perseverance Road

53.                   No one saw my creativity

No one saw my creativity
as a reflection of a dream
they never had

04/03/16 147 Perseverance Road

54.                   I won the surprise prize

Book 2 P. 58

I won the surprise prize
Another morning
to mangle
with my positive thinking
new-age reasoning
and frozen beliefs
of radicalized sameness
Hello yesterday again

Photo: 19/02/16 Kok River National Park, Chiang Rai, Thailand
Written: 04/03/16, Vista, South Australia 147 Perseverance Road

 

55.                   Your love a placeholder

Book 2 P. 56

Your love
a placeholder
in a digital
image editor
@ the outskirts of my life

04/03/16 147 Perseverance Road

56.                   She had the right-of-way

She had the right-of-way
so I landed in the gutter
and waited for rains
to wash me away

04/03/16 car park Tee Tree Plaza

57.                   Nice body I said to the Ford

Nice body I said to the Ford
only to have a Chevy
slap me with a discrimination notice
for being such a blatant Leo

04/03/16 bus stop tee tree plaza

58.                   Each one of them stopped me in my tracks

Each one of them stopped me in my tracks
to tell me what was best for me
so like everyone else
I created a God to follow
so I could be saved too
and do what is best for me

04/03/16 147 Perseverance Rd

59.                   Obscure as I may be

Book 2 P. 141

Obscure as I may be
without me
I would never be

So lost in your symbolism

04/03/16 147 Perseverance Rd

60.                   I changed my vegetarian diet

11 words 61 characters with spaces

I changed my vegetarian diet
to have saturated tastes of you

04/03/16 147 Perseverance Rd

61.                   Muted revolution

Muted revolution

Change without sound
Change without heroes
Change without colours
Change without us

We did not hear
We did not follow
We were colourblind
We got left behind
Spare change at the dawn of the end of creation.

04/03/16 147 Perseverance Rd

62.                   I stumbled on my last poem

I stumbled on my last poem
meaning aborted
pro-poem groups
stabbed me
with empty words
leaving me
to fossilize as unread
alone and defeated@ Gutenberg’s last stand

04/03/16 147 Perseverance Rd

63.                   I used the wrong font

Book 2 P. 110

I used the wrong font
to describe our love
making our text-life
misinterpretable

04/03/16 147 Perseverance Rd

 

64.                   I you them

I You Them
nothing at all
to re-post
re-tweet
rumours of beliefs
dreamed of
made redundant
by hackers changing tomorrow’s headlines
saying stop believing to be free.

04/03/16 147 Perseverance Road

65.                   Copied transparences

Copied transparences
of your love
as imprints on my cells
your love sees through me
translation not needed
if only you had stayed
not traded your life
to be the invisible love
I cannot explain
but so often feel
though you are dead
you still live in my empty wanders
through this life

05/03/16 147 Perseverance Road

66.                   I believed it would work

I believed it would work researched, explored, tasted, failed
started again
deconstructed
reconstructed
obstructed
I would succeed
they turned and left
not knowing I succeeded in being alone

05/03/16 147 Perseverance Road

67.                   Poetically yours

Poetically yours
I claimed:
for you
flowery verbiage
selected meanings
windy imagery
but nothing else
you will always live
in notebooks and sketches
the real you
I no longer touch
or wish to
your ashes
covering past memories
never forgotten

06/03/16 147 Perseverance Road

68.                   She fucked the world

10 words 52 characters

She fucked the world
because she wanted more than me

06/03/16 Royal Adelaide Hospital

69.   As long as you see me

As long as you see me
being invisible to seven billion others
is OK

06/03/16 Royal Adelaide Hospital

70.                   Time lost me

Book 2 P. 114

Time lost me
in the valley of make believe

06/03/16 Royal Adelaide Hospital

71.                   Vanquished to a minor space

Vanquished to a minor space
Deserted by the best in me
Forgotten during a time of remembrance
I roll over and play dead
in someone else’s’ dream

07/03/16 147 Perseverance Road

72.                   Where did you go

Book 2 P.

 

Where did you go
my wonderful child?
all the world you wanted
your dreams could only come true
to be a pitcher for the New York Yankees
would be your life you said when you turned ten
we worked every day after that for your dream to be true
In Australia few played baseball
they loved cricket we never tried
they loved surfing we tried once and almost drowned
they loved their footy we looked the other way
But you were to be a baseball star nothing else for you
seasons blended years of dreams grew
you signed and flew to Dodgertown

To me you were still my wonderful child
Age 17 was still the dreaming age for your friends
but to you it was life realized
I missed you those seasons away
I tried to track you so far away but I was lost in my own world
and your life was just a random glimpse I retrieved from the Internet
I missed your changing moods of youth
I missed throwing the ball with you every morning and evening
Seasons of your away I counted them knowing we would return
to father and son and dreams of the future coming true
Season One, Two, Three
We drifted apart but I believed it was only your becoming a man
and me trying to stop stumbling through my own life
You became confused
baseball and love were clashing they were on different continents
different dreams in hopes of coming true
You had just turned twenty
The day you left the Los Angeles Dodgers no one knew you were gone
flying to Sydney to try and save a youthful love
I too was in Australia that weekend finishing my PhD
a long hard earned dream in my world that you never knew I was doing
I was returning to New York on Monday
The message came to me two days earlier on Saturday
13th August 2003
My wife, who you never got to know, put her arms around me
“Leigh is dead”
I fell, disappeared into night, thirteen years later I still wait for you
You ended your life without saying goodbye
I held you at your birth, raised you with Sacha for eighteen years
your mother somewhere else far off in the shadows of our life
fighting herself in her own tormented dreams
I saw you again the afternoon of your death
your fifteen story fall stopped you from looking like you
your Topps Rookie Baseball card in your pocket


Where are you now?
Do you wish you had stayed?
or perhaps there is no more at the end of our life
All left is a broken dream stared at by us, the left behinds
A father waiting to see one more time

Thirteen years later I awake this morning
you once again in my mind
What would your life look like if you stayed?
A baseball star?
Grandchildren for me?
Movie Star?
Sports announcer?
Alive?
All the possibilities of life
wonderful child
the one who will never grow old
always never older than just turned twenty-years-old

07/03/16 147 Perseverance Road

73.   In the often time of failure

In the often time of failure
I succeed in
I found early success in the morning sunrise
shining on me and no one else

08/03/16 147 Perseverance Road

74.                   Stretched across the horizons

Stretched across the horizons
            riches of past dreams
                         spent before morning absorbs night before
rumours of past and future lives
Dreams raining promises of us
being together again
But no
just wishful thoughts that life could ever be
anything more
than it is
stretched across
hobbled hollowed horizons without harmony

08/03/16 147 Perseverance Road

75.                   So many ways to tell the truth

Book 2  P. 177

So many ways to tell the truth
I lied to morning to see
if she would notice
Looks like it will be
another stormy day

11/03/16 Adelaide  147 Perseverance Road

76.                   I reversed engineered your love

I reversed engineered your love
as morning broke out
in rhythmatic breaths
of wanting more
Often I seem to know
when you are near
          your scent
          your whisper
          your longings
Desire always was universal
love just an add-on
a pop-up ad
an afterthought
to creation’s haphazard methods
of self-discovery
But you were one I could create
duplicates of
for when the world
no longer could breathe
miscalculations
leaving us breathless
desiring more
when none was available.

09/03/16 Adelaide  147 Perseverance Road

77.   We dream that we are awake
We dream that we are awake
making sleep
the only viable response
to where we were yesterday.

09/03/16 Adelaide  147 Perseverance Road

78.                   To late the start

To late the start
letting go dreams
where to wake?
rushing toward a windowless future
closed too often
I took now as the truth
Silly me
left behind
by time and space
with nowhere to start.

09/03/16 Adelaide  147 Perseverance Road

79.                   Too few

Too few
for so many
determining what to appease when
masking where
but how
then there was none.

09/03/16 Adelaide  147 Perseverance Road

80.                   I was yesterday’s youth

12 words 62 characters

I was yesterday’s youth
misunderstood by whom
I became fifty years later.

09/03/16 Adelaide  147 Perseverance Road

81.                   So excited to be your shadow

So excited to be your shadow
waking in your dream
reflecting your laughter
dancing with your memories
Dying with you
damn!
I don’t want to be
your shadow
anymore.

11/03/16 Adelaide  147 Perseverance Road

82.                   Thought I would never be satisfied

Book 2 P/ 114

Thought I would never be satisfied

·        wanted at least two more moons

·        longer days

·        bigger planet

·        less people

·        more recognition

·        longer to live

·        three times more mornings in a year

·        more resources

But your love satisfies and erases all other wants
dreams tonight perfect
once again.

11/03/16 Vista  147 Perseverance Road

83.                   We connect at a higher level

We connect at a higher level
top of the morning
wrapped together
beyond earthly logic.

11/03/16 Vista 147 Perseverance Road

84.                   With forgetting yesterday

With forgetting yesterday
today became worthwhile
and tomorrow like yesterday
forgettable
And the last seed
to be Planted
becomes what survives
when often the birds
have eaten all the rest
in this
the only moment
there ever will be.

12/03/16 Vista 147 Perseverance Road

85.                   I watched the weeds bully my lawn

Book 2 P. 171

I witnessed weeds bully my lawn
so I started a grass fire
it spread to the neighbour’s paddocks
to an uninhabited-sacred temple
to an ancient forest
a medieval town
to an important city
to my glorious end
oops!

13/03/16 Vista  147 Perseverance Road

86. Missed the moment

Bk 2 P. 84

Missed the moment

·        Breaking moment

·        Breaking news

·        Breaking evening

Took off the brakes
rolled into dreams
new moment here I am
so much more alive

13/03/16 Vista  147 Perseverance Road


87. stopped moving forward
I stopped moving forward
world moved backwards
now caught up to each other
standing still waiting for the next big bang
you and I creating new worlds
no one can change.

16/03/16 Vista, South Australia  147 Perseverance Road

88. Rarely satisfied

6 words 46 characters with spaces

Rarely satisfied
morning
keeps starting again.

16/03/16 Vista, South Australia 

89. It is only a matter of time

It is only a matter of time
before the end
Before time
no end in sight
you and me wrapped only in our scent

16/03/16 Vista, South Australia 

90. Dawn’s relatives

Book 2 P. 86

Dawn’s relatives

·        Mist

·        Rainbow

·        Time

·        Clouds

·        Music

·        Love

·        Storms

·        Life

·        Death

·        Light

·        Darkness

·        Us together

·        Us apart

Me and dawn’s family
sometimes at odds with one another

Like today once again.

16/03/16 Vista, South Australia 

91. Went into competition

7 words 43 characters with spaces

Went into competition
with myself
And lost

18/03/16 Vista, South Australia 

92. Mimicking creation

9 words 43 characters with spaces

Mimicking creation
you and I
& the big bang

18/03/16 Vista, South Australia 

93. Overcrowded galaxy

Book 2 P.84

Overcrowded galaxy
      no space
              to stretch my wings
      no room
              for you to love me
      nowhere
              to dream

Photos: 27/12/2005 St. Chapelle, Paris, France, Me 2012 Shanghai, hands = White Temple, Chiang Rai, 21/02/16 Written: 18/03/16 Vista, South Australia 

94. Sun rose as a mistaken identity

Book 1 P. 124

Sun rose as a mistaken identity
desperate to veil
our night
before
before
day realized
we were on the run from our foreign past
Disguised passions
playing out in the zoo of life
Caged freedom
laughed @ by a % of #YouTube fans
& put on trial by hackers of life
in the mistaken identities
we often find ourselves in

 
Written: 18/03/16 Vista, South Australia 

95. Desire perpendicular to dreams

Book 2 P. 78

Desire’s perpendicular dreams
confused my momentary momentum
when trying to use an umbrella
to harness this strong wind
Blown away by your love
Cyclone Goddess of the Coastal-Morning-Rise.

Written: 19/03/16 Vista, South Australia 

 

 

96. Walked into a wall

Walked into a wall
thinking the door’s shadow cast
was the way to you
Bruised now by inconsistent vision
and misinterpreted thoughts
I will limp into the future
believing it is the past
and thankful that I left reality
in the bin
with the other
rubbish.

Written: 19/03/16 Vista, South Australia 

97. Earth

Book 1  P.07
Earth
just an experiment
by mice
(evolved mice)
from another
*-system
to see how we would react
to various conditions
love, too much, non-beliefs, hate, not enough, beliefs
and an assortment of other variables
including
how we look after mice
I think we are in trouble

Written: 20/03/16 Vista, South Australia 

98. To quote my lower self

To quote my lower self
I think my higher self is full of shit

Written: 20/03/16 Vista, South Australia 

99. When you were a star

Book 2 P. 172

When you were a star
and I your shadow
the future was an exciting place
to visit
Now it is the past
You no longer a star
I no longer your shadow
and the moment has no bridge
between past and future or now
Dreams so far off
I wish I never had them to begin with
shadows and stars
and all that could have never been
swept away
like you did with your life

Written: 21/03/16 Vista, South Australia 

100. On the way to greatness

Book 2 Part of a group P. 16

On the way to greatness
I took a nap
no one noticed
so my dog took on greatness
got a hashtag
went viral
and I went back to sleep
how perfect is that

Written: 22/03/16 Vista, South Australia 

101. Creation tried a different technique

Creation tried a different technique
now all life
ended

Written: 22/03/16 Vista, South Australia 

102. Everything I do is outdated

Book 2 Part of a group P. 16

Everything I do is outdated
ten minutes before I do it

Written: 22/03/16 Vista, South Australia 

103. Snippets of facts

Book 2 Part of a group P. 16

Snippets of facts
mingled with surrendered dreams
makes truth obsolete
and your love surreal

 Written: 22/03/16 Vista, South Australia 

 

104. Thawed love

Book 2 Part of a group P. 16

Thawed love
frozen logic
life explained

Written: 22/03/16 Vista, South Australia 

105. Step by step

Step by step
no idea why
where I lead myself
always a mystery
Perhaps the next time
will take me back
to where I began
then I will see where I am headed

Written: 23/03/16 Vista, South Australia 

106. There are things I am not sure of

There are things I am not sure of
said yesterday
to tomorrow
but if you come back
I may be of assistance

Written: 24/03/16 Vista, South Australia 

107. Surrounded sunrise surprise

Surrounded sunrise surprise
as if a prize
a trophy even
naked on the beach in my dream
melting away
before I could have a taste
But the thought lingers and haunts my day
that if only once
there would be a sunrise surprise
that would be real
for longer than a passing thought
I would be surprised

Written: 24/03/16 Vista, South Australia 

108. The first should be last

The first should be last
and the last should stay last
Leaving first
as a place holder
for when at last
I get there

Written: 25/03/16 Vista, South Australia 

109. When finally, I had nothing left to say

When finally, I had nothing left to say
I listened until I became deaf from all of what was being said
Now I can only hear my thoughts
echoing off of my lack of understanding
as they absorb
any notion I ever had of making sense
before dawn shows me to the world
as just another lunatic
on the corner of deliberate
and I have no idea how to stop
what I did not have to say

Written: 25/03/16 Vista, South Australia 

110. I like the way the pressure is finally off

Book 2 P. 119

I like the way the pressure is finally off
to make ourselves

ü  attractive

ü  appear clever

ü  act wealthy

ü  educated

ü  friendly

when we are dead

Written: 25/03/16 Vista, South Australia 

111. Stories of past times gone

Book 2. P. 7

Stories of past times gone
forgotten by all
only me left

to forward memories
Faded years of narratives
1911, 1090, 1915, 1912
my horizon covered with postcards
from the long-ago dead
family past almost forgotten
And from the 1980s
my son’s early computer games
outliving him but not me
I hold onto the past
so tomorrow will have
memories

Written: 26/03/16 Vista, South Australia 

112. People of earth

People of earth
developed and designed
to reflect
the defects
of designed development

Written: 26/03/16 Vista, South Australia 

113. Once again set adrift

Once again set adrift
by runaway
emotions
a victim
of someone else’s
narrative

Written: 26/03/16 Vista, South Australia 

114. Without translation

Without translation
we cannot know
the mind of creation
which is why we don’t

Written: 27/03/16 Vista, South Australia 

115. Worked through the playful part

Worked through the playful part

o   Love

o   Spending

o   Experiments

o   Explanations

But stumbled on all the rest

o   Love

o   Spending

o   Experiments

o   Explanations

Written: 27/03/16 Vista, South Australia 

116. Sort of a theme here

Sort of a theme here

Took the easy way out
past midnight
left @ dawn
right @ you
escaped into flight
flying untethered
through life
into the open spaces
of my gone wild dreams

Written: 27/03/16 Vista, South Australia 

117. No! Not me

No! Not me
I heard myself say as doors closed
surrounding myself
with
an atmospheric pressure
minimizing the space I was dreaming in

 No! Not me
wake me up
I can no longer breathe
my mind shattered from disillusionment
There is no time to lose because time
no longer exists

Written: 27/03/16 Vista, South Australia 

118. I hid in my prehistoric disguise

I hid in my prehistoric disguise
but the joke was on me
no one looked
as they trampled my dreams
like so many school children
running through a rose garden
blood pouring out
from the thorns
drowning me
before I had a chance to change
my disguise

Written: 27/03/16 Vista, South Australia 

119. god copied and pasted our solar system into another galaxy

Book 2 P.139

god copied and pasted our solar system into another galaxy
with the hope to watch a copy of me stumble and fall
like I do here
on the simulated new earth planet
for a bit of a giggle
but it was a flawed duplicate of me
that merged two success viruses
leaving out the multiple failure ones
Now I am the go-to-human
in a distant galaxy.

‘sucked in god’

Written: 28/03/16 Vista, South Australia 

120. Based on what I never did before

Book 2 P. 140

Based on what I never did before
with hunger
               (almost desire starvation)
I reached into
               then beyond
                              possibilities
                              foreign territory
               not imaginable
               not survivable
                              too nebulous
               for comprehension
Then the phone rang
Wrong number
I forgot what I was thinking about
               such a trajectory of useless thoughts

Written: 28/03/16 Vista, South Australia 

121. Starting tomorrow

Book 2 P. 151

Starting tomorrow
yesterday will be forgotten
gamblers only winners
lovers forgivable dreams
losers cloud-based storage fillers
wishes scientifically disproven
energy created and destroyed
our brains uploaded to disease-riddled mice
But for now
I will just explore today
reflected in your touch
unfolding in your scent
dissolved by your desires

Written: 29/03/16 Vista, South Australia 

122. I use to know what I would do next

Book 2 P. 183

I use to know what I would do next
All so predictable
the wonders of tomorrow
no more than an equation
notes written in my diary
alerts in my calendar
scribbled notes uploaded to the cloud
bookmarked in social media
names tattooed on my thighs
poetry left in my will to a third-world charity
But that was the past
now I make plans
then delete them
right after
Such a thrill
Like being in love
for the first time
over and over

Written: 29/03/16 Vista, South Australia 

123. Like any award-winning film

Book 2 P. 180

Like any award-winning film
morning’s performance
constantly outshines evening
Though often evening gets honourable mention
and noon is somewhat questionable
like when I was adopted

Written: 02/April/16 Vista, South Australia 

124. Too many letters

Too many letters
not enough words
left explanations
of you, us, me
scrambled

Written: 02/April/16 Vista, South Australia 

125. The day I died

Book 1 P. 11

The day I died flowers leapt out of their beds

Animals born                    Discoveries made                           New love unexplained

A distant star exploded and spewed cosmic dust

Stories shared   Dreams came true

The day I died

was full of life                   hope

                                             fulfillment

Though not for me

126. I traded my happiness for your love

I traded my happiness for your love
you offered me
a thrift-store copy
a good for two, coupon
used and discarded
tattered and worn
lost and burnt
So I took my happiness back
Lucky me
it was still partially intact
so I could die with a smile too

Written: 03/April/16 Vista, South Australia 

127. Memory of who we were when

Memory of who we were when
drifting by on a fearless wind
taking me forward
memory still attached
tattooed in my mind
pieces from a puzzled past
falling from the wind’s furious fanciful frightening flight
I reach to collect what I can
But I forget too easily
how it all fitted together
the process never mattered
sections of time did
memories in the breeze
of we who we were when

 

Written: 04/April/16 Vista, South Australia (first in caravan)

128. Aligned

Book 3 P. 45

Aligned
everything in place
so I turned
went the other direction
scattering
all beliefs
of the order of things

Written: 05/April/16 Vista, South Australia

129. I thought we were retired

Book 1 P. 9

I thought we were retired
sun-setting people
our day most done
stories told
past put on a shelf
future empty
like at our birth
rushing through life
now here we are
too busy
to know
why it was we retired
and the sun still has yet to set

Written: 05/April/16 Vista, South Australia

130. First impression

First impression
like morning and me
captured love at first sight
last impression
like fastly developed night and me
lost love
too dark to see
too cold to feel
too deep to hear
death is warm
life unknown
but I will try again
if tomorrow comes

Written: 07/April/16 Vista, South Australia

131. Each new day a mystery

Each new day a mystery
like
what is discoverable
behind a new
lover’s smile

Written: 07/April/16 Vista, South Australia

132. At the height of foolishness
At the height of foolishness
I fooled myself into believing in myself
False doctrines of how I should be free
        naked along the shore
        making love in the alley
        floating amongst the clouds
        laughing in a youth long past
now that I can dream again
I can believe in me
at the height of foolishness

Written: 08/April/16 Vista, South Australia

133. Leaf on a branch

Book 2  P. ?

Leaf on a branch
               outside my window
               inside my sight
out of control
landing pad for flies
dew, rain, snow
changing colours
without desire
exhaling
Is there free-will involved
We cut the branch
making room
for more of ourselves
the leaf never complains
I sweep it into the trash

Who remembers
the life of that leaf
or its ancestors
or its fate
Does the leaf
have an afterlife
to look forward to
or like me
just is forgotten
if ever noticed
to begin with

Written: 08/April/16 Vista, South Australia

134. Watching time slip away

Book 1 P. 7

Watching time slip away
out the door
down the drive
around the corner
onto the freeway
past town
over the river
into the Outback
disappearing through the night
like love firstly found

Written: 08/April/16 Vista, South Australia

135. A reckless wind

Book 2 P. 53

A reckless wind
tempting the sleeping river
whispering of changes
        solitude’s stillness invaded
The river tried to ignore
feeling powerful in its calmness
         transparent resistance
                   protests giving in to inevitable change
The wind had strength
the river had power
the land was barren
no harvest in sight
The reckless wind
became obsessed with the river
tearing it from its ancestral bed
Flood destroying
Bridges picturesquely rearranged
Trees leaping into a radicalized river
        torn from their birth place drowning in sorrow
Stars hid behind clouds
         refusing to bear witness
Foolish towns lost their now non-existence

I too once was strong
I swept through life
       a reckless wind
             only the brave could wave
                     everyone else turned another way
Now the river and I are calm
I see my reflection in the water
The wind just a cool breeze
        like a lover’s vanishing touch
The past a storm
A story to tell
      riding the current to I don’t know where

 
Written: 09/April/16 Vista, South Australia

136. I took a detour

Book 4 P. 7


I took a detour
of your exploding love
tonight alone

Written: 10/April/16 Vista, South Australia

137. The feeling was mutual

The feeling was mutual
I felt bad for feeling good
I felt good for feeling bad
A glass fell off of the table
I looked at the ceiling
A knock at the door
                reminded me of a dream
                I recently had run from
A distant voice
                 called the name
                 of whom I was long ago
I did not answer
Failure has tried to tricked me
                   often with incredible success
I was too confused to notice
The feeling was mutual
but I do not know with whom

Written: 10/April/16 Vista, South Australia

138. Historically your touch

Historically your touch
a healing refrain
without substantial substitution
unexpected
possibly eternal
though believable
lightened my moment
became my shadow
and infused possibilities
into my movement
without precedent
so I could again today
embed
your historical touch
in this quickly passing moment

139. I lost my creative function

Book 3. P. 71

I lost my creative function
so I went to the zoo
had a great ape
type out on my new electronic device a poem for you
afjdoivjineo[0j a0jfa   pafdjoil  pjiom]ep-0i040v=-oakf
but it was too esoteric for me to understand
so I bought a computer program
that would write poems
but it only spat out how many 1’s and 0’s it had
in a most narcissistic fashion
tonight alone

Written: 11/April/16 Vista, South Australia

140. I changed my diet

I changed my diet
so I would not keep repeating the same metaphors
similarly
I wore a new tie as a disguise
to trick my dreams
into believing in me
so I could walk in the Outback
And go back to walk in
like changing seasons
with a conman
for a moment’s magic
your love for me appearing again

Written: 13/April/16 Vista, South Australia

141.  It was not clear at first

It was not clear at first
how set goals
Would find an audience
to my accomplishment
Now I see
it was barely a step
without end
toward nothing at all

Written: 14/April/16 Vista, South Australia

142. I changed my calendar to fifteen years ago
Leigh

I changed my calendar to fifteen years ago
You had just turned 18 and on your way to stardom
an exciting career pitching for the LA Dodgers
I set my clock for six AM to be sure I got you
to the airport in time
for the flight
Adelaide to Sydney to Los Angeles to Dodgertown in Florida
Years of work and dreams wrapped in a package
for you to unwrap once you were there
A year later I went to see you
you felt alone
not sure of hour past dreams
being what you wanted anymore
I returned to Australia believing everything was good
you returned too
another year later
telling no one you had left the Dodgers
one morning to fly to Sydney to rekindle lost love
who found you in the morning
fifteen floors below on the street
And still now all these years after I still in my mind
see you going off your hotel balcony
your life passing you by in those final two seconds
Did you see me in sorrow for you
all these years after staring at my calendar
on the wall
with the day you first left
circled

Written: 15/April/16 Vista, South Australia

143. Fitting moments

Fitting moments
large ones into small containers
small moments into large containers
contraction
expansion
quantity vs. quality
a bundle of love
for an explosive passing moment
vs. a little love
for so long
the Big Bang
proof of a moment
of released love
while galaxies living too long
die of boredom
and become Black Holes
ripping apart
fabrics of time
for us to express our desire in

Written: 15/April/16 Vista, South Australia

144. Letting loose the last grasp on reality

Book 3 P. 78

Letting loose the last grasp on reality
I floated away
like a whispering wind
disturbing a sleepy rainbow
into suddenly
letting its colours
bleed into the desert
changing the mundane
into lust

Written: 16/April/16 Vista, South Australia

145. Waiting for the next big bang

Waiting for the next big bang
starting over
forgetting all that was before
billions of years down the hatch
but until then
one more saturation of you
with you will do

Written: 16/April/16 Vista, South Australia

146. I spent sixty-eight years

Book 3. P. 67

I spent sixty-eight years
seven months
six days
eleven hours
twenty-two minutes
in preparation for this moment
I Googled, read books, meditated
ask common and non-common people
in social media and on the street corner
about this moment
But now here
standing naked in the alley
I have no idea what to do

Written: 18/April/16 Vista, South Australia

147. I was put on to life supportive system

Book 5. P. 41

I was put on to life supportive system
You in my life

Written: 18/April/16 Vista, South Australia

Camping trip to York Peninsula

148. Reflection perfection of morning

Book 3. P. 141

Reflection perfection of morning
another dream
so I no longer will sleep
freedom
over life itself

Written: 18/April/16 Port Parham, South Australia

 

 

149. If only there was time and space

Book 4. P. 96

If only there was time and space
for the seven billion people of earth
to each receive the attention
that they deserve
I could stop hiding in the shadows
so I could be me for all to see
for just a moment
on this merry-go-round
that I fall off of so often
before being noticed

Written: 19/April/16 Black Point, South Australia

150. Where the sea meets my dreams
Where the sea meets my dreams
I set sail for turbulent waters
to break a cycle of painful tranquility
And surely enough of course
I was rewarded with a tsunami
of non-retractable change
that strengthened my resolve
to never be calm again

Written: 19/April/16 Black Point, South Australia

151. While critiquing a thought recently shared with me

Book 3. P. 12

While critiquing a thought recently shared with me
by a woman who had just swum ashore
I was struck by the similarities
of our childhoods
How we had both
emerged from clamshells
in the midst of a midnight mist
of a full-moon in Pisces
with important concepts to share
I had intended to share my insights
with the mayor and other insignificant folks
Surely wisdom is only allowed to a select few
and it is the duty of us
who ooze wisdom
to embed others with it
But like all of us who have come up from the cove
in clamshells
I was given medication that confused me
while being placed in a padded cube
which I was unable to swim free of
Once again I am here stuck in cyberspace with no chance of land

Written: 19/April/16 Black Point, South Australia

152. Unbeknown to those who knew

Book 3. P. 118

Unbeknown to those who knew
along the shore
of less and more
past the unforgiving cliffs
where ancestors cry out only if
I would acknowledge what they gave
before my mother left me in a cave
to live on dreams and smoothies of organic kelp
I then would stop pleading for help
and new solar panels so my veggie-mixer would work
But at the end of the day a jerk is a jerk
And I will always be one of the few
unbeknown to those who knew

Written: 20/April/16 Black Point, South Australia

153. I heard the warning

Book 3. P. 135

I heard the warning
“do not orgasm next to an open flame”
I coughed and proceeded anyway
On the jetty a dayglow sign blinked
“do not dive into love”
but I did
next to the sign
“no dumping”
she left me to rot
Being rebellious
I have learned life rarely gives a pause
to heed
before life’s demolitions
have left me
whimpering and whining
without merit
or any signs of regret

Written: 20/April/16 Black Point, South Australia

154. Snuggled up to falling rain

Snuggled up to falling rain
rooftop dancers
whisking away
built up yesterdays
I once feared the rain
now it enlightens me
pools of reasoning
drowning dreams of illusions
it keeps falling
I keep rising
somewhere we will merge
beyond umbrellas wayward warning.

Written: 20/April/16 Black Point, South Australia

155. Broken passage

Book 3. P. 17

Broken passage
next line swept away
the nature of nature
leaving us with a story undeveloped
no manual given
plug in turn off count to ten
when I was young
and had no sense
of purposeful direction
I developed a taste for the unknown
sprained emotions
tempered with recycled beliefs
there was no room for the absurd
that would come later
when I was force fed
tainted interpretation
so I live in the moment
the one that came before
when royalty seemed possible
perhaps even enlightenment
would be mine to surrender
morning came early this autumn
I listened to harmony synchronized
without reason
believing in the next line would repair
a broken  passage for me to follow
knowing my fate is to endlessly ramble
and to lose myself in useless narratives

Written: 21/April/16 Innes National Park, South Australia

156. I chiseled my memory into the cliff face

Book 3. P. 127

I chiseled my memory into the cliff face
only to have time and erosion
break it down into sand
where dogs and children peed on it
leaving nothing for future memories
to attach to

Written: 20/April/16 Innes National Park, South Australia

157. The transformational aura of a chance forgiveness

Book 3. P. 91

The transformational aura of a chance forgiveness
cleared predictive change
letting fly free
karma’s twisted hold on a mistaken identity
releasing the weight of the past
so I can truly start anew
thanks again to yesterday’s dream
made manifest

Written: 21/April/16 Innes National Park, South Australia

158. I look out the window into the darkness

I look out the window into the darkness
and see a stranger fading
the stranger looks back through the window
and sees my life
surrounded by darkness
Neither one of us perceiving the light
within the other
gradually replacing
celebratory shadows

Written: 21/April/16 Innes National Park, South Australia

159. Under strong advice from a herd of nice mice

Under strong advice from a herd of nice mice
the annual bush fire fate
delayed destruction
to a more convenient time
Soon after tourists stopped camping
and leaving cheese flavoured beliefs
Then burn they did
flames uniting with the sun
cooking remnants of past indiscretions
along with the final words to this thought

Written: 22/April/16 Innes National Park, South Australia

160. Laughter mingled with evening breeze

Laughter mingled with evening breeze
the world in flames
tonight forgotten
laughter masks reality
laughter mocks sorrow
laughter heals the broken desire
tonight ripped free
from its tortured past
nothing left to do
but laugh with you
too

Written: 22/April/16 Innes National Park, South Australia

161. Shipwrecks along the coast
Book 3. P. 110

Shipwrecks along the coast
but not mine
your love
is my lighthouse
letting me
touch the rocks
but never enough
to smash apart
Sailing so calmly through our life
(most of the time)

Written: 22/April/16 Innes National Park, South Australia

162. 816 full moons have passed my way
Book 3. P. 58

816 full moons have passed my way
leaving me to wonder
how many new moons
will my life yet to know

Written: 22/April/16 Innes National Park, South Australia

163. Closing my eyes

Book 4. P. 56

Closing my eyes
I reached into the past
a grab bag of experiences
only to pull out
the same one as yesterday

·        was it fate

·        is it luck

·        will it be my undoing

 

ü  Should I run

ü  maybe hide

ü  stand and cheer


If I did yesterday again
would today then be tomorrow
if so
I will have my eyes open
and choose which experience
to redo
perhaps
the one of when we first met
discarding caution
social norms
running naked
into the future
with no limiting limitations
what a time
we will have
being free again

Photo/Written: 23-April-16 Innes National Park, South Australia

164. Absorbing fully the moment
Book 3 P. 84
Absorbing fully the moment
The point
in having no future
is to have a future
with no point
future flying free pointlessly

Written: 23/April/16 Innes National Park, South Australia

165. I set the time to five-minutes before I would appear in your dream

Book 3. P. 33

I set the time to five-minutes before I would appear in your dream
there was a southerly breeze changing the course of my hair
so artistically sculptured to a western direction
but I knew you would not care
I polished my thoughts to reflect the best of you
ironed the wrinkles out of my past errors
embedded memories of a past-life
when I was more than a common hero
and photoshopped an image of a saint over
a  hologram of who I was yesterday
Your dream was short swift and accurate
You sat up smiled at me took me in
all my desires fulfilled

In your dreams

Written/Photo: 23/04/16 Innes National Park South Australia

166. In a transformative haze

In a transformative haze
secrets of life were redefined
discoveries assembled
evolution halted
beliefs cast to the wind
and we awoke
to the sounds
unrecognizable to all but the silent
to Those who were prepared
to take the next wave of creation
past the muddled hum of
the current crucified on earth

23/04/16 Innes National Park

 

167. This morning’s news

Book 3 P. 49

This morning’s news
missed the story
of my transcendence
Today
Unknown
Again

23/04/16 Innes National Park

168. I try to imagine

Book 3. P. 10

Leigh

I try to imagine
what you would think of me
wearing your clothes
thirteen years after you died
would you laugh
think I was ill of mind
silly by all standards
or would you wish
you had decided to stay alive
so you could wear
them instead

23/04/16 Innes National Park

169. Refresh reboot restart

Book 3 P. 87

Refresh
reboot
restart
“why not”
said the morning
“today over again”

Written: 23/04/16 Innes National Park

170. I heard on the news

Book 3. P. 100

I heard on the news
how two black holes merged together
What I wondered though
was whether it was love or just a passing fling
deep in space
Should we celebrate their union
or shame them
Because once they were different galaxies before converting to black holes
or perhaps just ignore them and concentrate on the trivia
we call life on this planet
this solar system
this galaxy
which too one day will be swallowed by a black hole looking for love deep in space

Written: 23/04/16 Innes National Park

171. The plot thickened
Book 3. P. 44

The plot thickened
as the story began
you and I
before the start of Act One
exiting the stage
to the applause of no one at all
and the cheering
of a plant dying in the corner
We waved
and emptiness waved back
So we did an encore
The empty seats seemed pleased
If it had it all to do again
I would have tipped my hat
and removed my pants
but until then
I will be content
that you noticed me
before taping me
to the ceiling

Written: 23/04/16 Innes National Park

172. Dreams tumbled in unison

Dreams tumbled in unison
out of their container
trapping me in another blur of reality
while sequences of colours
dissolved my initial waking
so I went back to sleep
tumbling
back into your dreams

Written: 24/04/16 Innes National Park

173. Waiting for change

Waiting for change
change went on
disregarding directions requested
no motive known
no way to prepare
no result welcomed
change is creation
made manifest

Written: 24/04/16 Innes National Park

174. Heroes are nothing more than memes
eight words
Heroes are nothing more than memes
without chains

Written: 24/04/16 Innes National Park

175. Morning yawned

Book 3. P. 53

Morning yawned
would anyone notice
flowers bloomed
would anyone notice
birds sang
would anyone notice
the mysteries of nature unfolding
people digitally engaged
no one looked up
so nature stopped
and everyone died

Photos/Written: 24/04/16 Innes National Park

176. The past crumbles

The past crumbles
as fast as this moment
and then the future (crumbles)
All that is built
but a passing monument
for us to see
those before us who lived and died
like those who follow
will to us

Written: 24/04/16 Innes National Park

177. To be lost on a path

To be lost on a path
is to find one’s freedom
beyond any path

Written: 24/04/16 Innes National Park

178. Through adaption

Through adaption
we become one
another shooting star
through this local moment

Written: 26/04/16 Corny Point, South Australia

179. Remove the distance

Remove the distance
between childhood and old age
taking out the middle years between
touch that moment as if nothing between
so easy to do
just a leap and a jump
a whistle and a song
all that was between
never happened
then and now and no in-between
glad to be a child again
and no one can see
cut out all between
now and then
in this quiet moment between


Written: 26/04/16 Corny Point, South Australia

180. Fantasies Dreams Hopes Wishes

Book 3. P. 131

Fantasies Dreams Hopes Wishes
what an exciting life
a tree does have

Written: 26/04/16 Corny Point, South Australia

181. Up before dawn

Book 3. P. 22
Up before dawn
a well-planned day
No time left
for the sun to rise

Written: 26/04/16 Corny Point, South Australia

182. I didn’t set out to be the legs of a table

Book 3. P. 104

“I didn’t set out to be the legs of a table
for stupid jokes
and beer to be spilt over me at the pub”
said the driftwood to the sea
after a tidal wave brought it
along with the pub
back into the sea
“But now I am happy for the experience
and insights of human nature
I gleamed”
said the driftwood to the sea
as bodies of the locals
floated by
with no jokes left to tell

Written: 26/04/16 Corny Point, South Australia

183. Carol Ann part 1

Book 2. P. 55

Carol Ann part 1
I remember you
what you said
dreams of a better life for us
the future would be so much better
It was the 1960s
the world was becoming better too
that new dawn we were all headed to
where flee it to
Our future never came
you drifted away
I rushed forward dragging too much baggage
blinded by what I thought would be
Your life
the envy of all
until your mid-twenties
when you faltered and wilted
then you died
Today more than forty-five years later
I think you are here
almost within reach
I want to call, text, like your profile
see your latest video
even go retro and send a letter
I know we look different
I am almost sixty-eight
a few grey hairs
not as fast
thinking is about the same
And you
dead for way too long
But I remember you well
always almost within reach

27/04/16 Yorke highway, South Australia

184. Carol Ann part 2

Book 2. P. 55

Carol Ann part 2

We put a frangipani into a pond
at the Honolulu Airport
1969
Locals told us we would return together
with our flower floating in the water
but we never did
Or do we
Me in my mind
You somewhere way beyond
this physical world
meeting often at the Honolulu Airport

27/04/16 Yorke highway, South Australia

185. Impossible to embrace past

Impossible to embrace past
Impossible to embrace future
Embracing now
Never before Never again

27/04/16 Yorke highway, South Australia

186. Analytical contentment

Analytical contentment
swept over
what could have been a boring lifetime
providing an escape from caged freedom
so illusions of happiness
could run out of the gate
in a fit of analytical contentment

Written: 26/04/16 Corny Point, South Australia

-----------END OF YORKE PENISULA TRIP-----------BACK ADELAIDE-------------

187. Resting now

Resting now
after travelling through past memories
exhausted actually
I could barely keep up with myself at times
Where did I get all that energy
Did I really believe what I said
to have love come my way
to get hired into jobs I had no idea about
raise children by myself when I was still in the clouds
How did I manage to get from one experience to the next
Am I alone in my memories
No one from all those decades remembers me
those few who are not dead
do not respond
Only I want to have anything to do with the

me of then
yesterday me
today me
tomorrow me
All of us best of mates
Until the end

Written: 27/04/16 Adelaide, South Australia

188. I saw a bird try to be different

Book 3. P. 28

I saw a bird try to be different
to be a non-conformist
try the path less traveled
not follow the flock
change an evolutionary flight
It crashed into a tree
all the other birds looked and laughed
then crashed into trees themselves
How stupid birds really are

Written: 27/04/16 Adelaide, South Australia

189. Error at the crossroads

Error at the crossroads
confusion around the corner
lost my way
unable to be able
sabotaged by storm clouds
Forgot your name
so I called someone else
Always the way
lost at the crossroads

Written: 27/04/16 Adelaide, South Australia

190. I wanted you to be more than a poem to me

I wanted you to be more than a poem to me
lasting longer than some fading verbiage
stumbling across a scrap piece of thought
Structure and rhythm I dreamt of
shaping a vaguely tumultuous future
So I traded my wavering mind for a small pile of gambling chips
Then lost them too
Now I forget why
I ever wanted you to be more
than a poem

Written: 27/04/16 Adelaide, South Australia

191. I tried to keep up with my youth

I tried to keep up with my youth
but it rushed ahead
then went through a broken door
I was blocked from
So I sat down in an alley
to grow old
Wondering how my youth
was doing on the other side
of the broken door that had slammed shut
so long ago

Written: 27/04/16 Adelaide, South Australia

192. Take away the motion of emotions

Take away the motion of emotions
and we would have a much smoother journey
though maybe not
as interesting

Written: 28/04/16 Adelaide, South Australia

193. I was stunned when I discovered Gods

I was stunned when I discovered Gods
were using my jokes, profile, and life events
as their own
in other galaxies
(as if I won’t find out)
But what could I do
when they always
have the last laugh

Written: 28/04/16 Adelaide, South Australia

194. Too much pleasure

Book 3. P. 75

Too much pleasure
leaves no room
for dessert
Looks as if it will be
gravel, sticks, and sour times
again
tonight

Written: 28/04/16 Adelaide, South Australia

195. I thought it was just another average dawn

Book 3. P. 15

I thought it was just another average dawn
but with more than seven billion people
having each a different perspective
about the dawn
this one in particular
may not have been
to each and everyone
just another average dawn
as it was to me at my birth

Written: 28/04/16 Adelaide, South Australia

196. Ten minutes before I was born

Book 3. P. 123

Ten minutes before I was born
I realized I wanted to stay
in the womb
so I did
and fantasized a whole life outside
Now I am happy I stayed forever
in my mother’s womb

Written: 29/04/16 Adelaide, South Australia

197. Poetry is more than

Poetry is more than
a thought rearranged
jumbled words sounding fancy
some dumb-ass being praised for word combinations
Poetry is me being tattooed on your thigh
in antique gold ink

Written: 29/04/16 Adelaide, South Australia

198. Broken narratives

Book 3. P. 142

Broken narratives
sequential verbiage
textual vibration
Thoughts In Patterns
autumn colours of my mind
seasonal unfoldment at the end of time
reflected patterns
melting patterns
frozen patterns
life summed up then released in
Thoughts In Patterns

Written: 30/04/16 Adelaide, South Australia

199. My mum was confused when I was born

My mum was confused when I was born
thinking I was a garden gnome
and put me outside with the birds
next to miscellaneous artificial plants
I grew and learned and started down the road
Before long I heard my mum ask the neighbours
where was her garden gnome
no one knew
I left
went south
then three other directions soon after
If there was another direction
I surely would have tried it because the others were crap
as I wandered and discovered stuff
it was clear
I was not a garden gnome
which of course never mattered
Yesterday at a bankrupt garden centre
I found no other gnome looking like me
so my mum’s confusion must have been based
on nothing at all
just as all my decisions  since
have been
and now I know why

Written: 02/05/16 Adelaide, South Australia

200. I watched plants

Book 3. P. 59

I watched plants
mostly weeds
grow between the blocks
holding my life together
Out of my ears, nose, mouth, and etc.
A result of staying in the same mindset
for too long
Looking forward to change
freeing me of
the briars and weeds
holding me back
Hello New World

Written: 02/05/16 Adelaide, South Australia

201. While waiting on a new start
book 3. P. 93

While waiting on a new start
morning spun a story of intrigue
to a quickly passing promiscuous night
Disregarding an opportunity for surprise

·        Cycles maintained routine

·        Routines left town

·        Seasons blushed


and a flirtatious moon hid behind
a brothel of loveless clouds
However due to a computer glitch
morning’s story
became lost in the cloud
The night returned
and morning went off
to reflect
an unfinished poem

Written: 02/05/16 Adelaide, South Australia

202. We made so much of so little

Book 3. P. 62

We made so much of so little
there was enough light from your touch
to find a path
through this turbulent life

Written: 02/05/16 Adelaide, South Australia

203. Our love an accident amongst nature

Book 3. P. 39

Our love
an accident amongst nature
you and I
two bubbles
crashing
moments before
the end of time
together

Written: 02/05/16 Adelaide, South Australia

204. Difficulty with starting

Difficulty with starting
Difficulty with maintaining
Difficulty with closure
otherwise today has all the makings of a meltable moment

Written: 03/05/16 Adelaide, South Australia

205. Without letters

Without letters
words collapse
Without words
meaning bleeds
Without meaning
touch breaks
Without touch
life shatters
Without letters
we cannot start again

Written: 03/05/16 Adelaide, South Australia

206. Too short the dream

Book 3. P. 64

Too short the dream
left me alone
to face a moment
raw in its infancy
Written: 03/05/16 Adelaide, South Australia


Lyell McEwin Hospital * 207 – 2--  ******************************

207. I began ten minutes before the end

I began ten-minutes before the end
races run and lost
erased dreams
blessings counted in single digits
fools fooled me
often
I have no regrets
and may be excited
at the end
to begin again

Written: 05/05/16 Lyell McEwin Hospital, Cardiology Unit, Elizabeth, South Australia

208. Filled my time with thoughts of you

Book 3. P. 56

Filled my time with thoughts of you
forgot who I was
now I am you
loving me
How good is that

Written: 05/05/16 Lyell McEwin Hospital, Cardiology Unit, Elizabeth, South Australia

209. Syncing tomorrow’s embedded memory

Syncing tomorrow’s embedded memory
and yesterday’s online memory
with today’s online post
no one liked it
Now lost in a digital night mare
of a conspiratorial hack
screaming
new-age (Neuage) slogans
at my gravesite

Written: 05/05/16 Lyell McEwin Hospital, Cardiology Unit, Elizabeth, South Australia

210. Alarmed by sameness

Alarmed by sameness
evolutionary exchanges laid dormant
beneath frozen Surfaces
until we are ready
to let go so long
sameness and progress
to a level of oneness
life was created for

Written: 05/05/16 Lyell McEwin Hospital, Cardiology Unit, Elizabeth, South Australia

211. You sleep in my bed

You sleep in my bed
when it was me who was dying
You dreaming
I can see by your smile that I hope it was about me
I stare out the hospital bricked-up windows
We are still alive
Nurses and doctors lined up
interlocking smiles
checking their timetable
waiting to escape in an disco-ambulance
searching for new blood to play in
I am writing your name on my arm
in case I blackout
again
and forget who I am
I will let you sleep
they have taken too much of my remaining good karma
to leave me alone
I sit here I don’t need a bed
I will just vaporize if the world ends
You will never know sleeping so peaceful
in a world
I am locked out of
once again

Written: 05/05/16 Lyell McEwin Hospital, Cardiology Unit, Elizabeth, South Australia

212. While reflecting on what was not my life

While reflecting on what was not my life
I watched success wash over islands of my barren life
I heard cheering at my disappearance
I felt the love from the masses for whom I should have become
But out of fear lost myself in foreign virgin forests
Why I embrace darkness now is to avoid
reflection

Written: 05/05/16 Lyell McEwin Hospital, Cardiology Unit, Elizabeth, South Australia

213. I was so proud to be

I was so proud to be
the person I would never be
I threw myself a party
surrounded myself with stuffed animals
sent invitations to my award ceremony
to all my favourite dead family and friends
Got naked in front of my finest oriental mirror
Liked dead celebrities’ profiles
and sent myself a surprise present
which I can’t wait to open
once I die

Written: 05/05/16 Lyell McEwin Hospital, Cardiology Unit, Elizabeth, South Australia

214. She waltzed into my room

Book 3. P. 13

She waltzed into my room
short red dress
gathered together high over a tattooed left leg
(was my name there or was it an image of a youthful me)
blouse revealing twin peaks of past memories
Beckoning smile at the end of my bed
I waved back
rubbed my eyes
put on my glasses
revealing my hospital bed
nurse in white
needle in her hand
searching for a vein in a vein me
I sighed
closed my eyes and fell to sleep
counting the hours to my death

Written: 05/05/16 Lyell McEwin Hospital, Cardiology Unit, Elizabeth, South Australia

215. So close to end of life

So close to end of life
so close to not thinking of you
so often
So close to end of life
you won’t see me
but I will see you one more time
at the last spark of my final breath
So close to end of life
our ashes to be mixed together
as I always knew
We will be cast to the wind
together

Written: 05/05/16 Lyell McEwin Hospital, Cardiology Unit, Elizabeth, South Australia

216. The reason I close the window?

The reason I close the window?
I like the way love comes rushing through
my open door
To have an escape
would leave me alone
in the cold

Written: 05/05/16 Lyell McEwin Hospital, Cardiology Unit, Elizabeth, South Australia

217. The joy of being here

The joy of being here
there
anywhere
Pretending where I am
is really a step out
of a destressing dream
I was having difficulty giving away
at the Our Once-Lonely-Virgin of our Lord and
Saviour
of Broken Dreams
thrift shop

Written: 05/05/16 Lyell McEwin Hospital, Cardiology Unit, Elizabeth, South Australia

218. I offered my services to a fleeting shadow

I offered my services to a fleeting shadow
on my wall
though in hindsight
after falling off of my high horse
and looking up
I realized
it was really myself attempting an escape
from wishful thinking
which dissolved when the sun rose
and showed me in my final lunacy moment

Written: 05/05/16 Lyell McEwin Hospital, Cardiology Unit, Elizabeth, South Australia

219. Now that you are one with the wind

Book 3. P. 5

Now that you are one with the wind
each cool breeze I feel is you
Surrounding me
with your love
I thought had gone forever

Written: 06/05/16 Lyell McEwin Hospital, Cardiology Unit, Elizabeth, South Australia

220. Never could ride life with a saddle

Never could ride life with a saddle
clinging on
trying to keep my feet
from touch ground
avoiding banging into clouds
So far so good
if it all ends
I will never know

Written: 06/05/16 Lyell McEwin Hospital, Cardiology Unit, Elizabeth, South Australia

221. It is not my choices

It is not my choices
are so great
just you liking the same
makes each
the pick of the moment

Written: 06/05/16 Lyell McEwin Hospital, Cardiology Unit, Elizabeth, South Australia

222. Doctors set out

Book 3. P. 106

Doctors set out
to change the terrain of my body
Put in various devices
Chop and change
Graffiti my soul
Reorder my structure
Send me back out
being someone else
I needed to escape
so excuse me
curled up on your sofa
pretending I am a cat in heat

Written: 06/05/16 Lyell McEwin Hospital, Cardiology Unit, Elizabeth, South Australia

223. Stalled
Book 3. P. 25

Stalled
standing in the rain
flowers happy
I am drenched
Neptune in Pisces
Everything as it should be
except for me
Attempting to use leaking good-karma
as an umbrella
to preserve a fleeting memory
washing away in the rain

Written: 06/05/16 Lyell McEwin Hospital, Cardiology Unit, Elizabeth, South Australia

224. Expectations at the start of a rainbow

Expectations at the start of a rainbow
positioned to remain captive
If only we could meet
at its end
All between would be
a perfect storyline

Written: 06/05/16 Lyell McEwin Hospital, Cardiology Unit, Elizabeth, South Australia

225. Without limitations

Book 3. P. 08

Without limitations
morning whispered warnings
of a passing time
so we would have an empty pocket
to store it in
for later use
after the storm

Written: 06/05/16 Lyell McEwin Hospital, Cardiology Unit, Elizabeth, South Australia

226. Colourful sounds
Book. 4 P. 41

Colourful sounds Surrounded touch This path we chose
step-by-step
wrapped in a moment
Package deal
You and I exploring
without question
whatever we could breathe in

Written: 06/05/16 Lyell McEwin Hospital, Cardiology Unit, Elizabeth, South Australia
A rainy afternoon in Halls Gap Grampians Victoria
Book 4 'Thoughts in Patterns'

http://neuage.org/e-books/

226. Scanned brain for alien-irregularities

Book 3. P. 8

Scanned brain for alien-irregularities
Hat of wires
collecting electrical information formations
Eyes open
I saw a room of machines
and a cardboard-cutout technician
Eyes closed
waves of light
In a blurry distance coming into focus
you and me on a golden-scented shore
Every time I almost captured a focused snapshot of us
I had to open my eyes in preparation
for the next test
When the tests were finished
I asked the cardboard-cutout technician
if he witnessed what we were doing

on the distant whispering gold-scented dunes
But he showed screens of graphs
Wavy lines with no images of us
What good was the test
It was not able to interpret my brain waves
How faulty technology really is

Written: 06/05/16 Lyell McEwin Hospital, Cardiology Unit, Elizabeth, South Australia

227. Love as an experiment
Love as an experiment
with it
without it
no other variables
statistics clearly favour
with

Written: 07/05/16 Lyell McEwin Hospital, Cardiology Unit, Elizabeth, South Australia

228. Subtracting differences

Subtracting differences
we are the same
If only other nations could do the same
by now
we would all have our heads in the clouds
not just me

Written: 07/05/16 Lyell McEwin Hospital, Cardiology Unit, Elizabeth, South Australia

229. Morning came early today

Book 3. P. 88

Morning came early today
verifying
I was still alive

Written: 07/05/16 Lyell McEwin Hospital, Cardiology Unit, Elizabeth, South Australia

228. We were so superior

We were so superior
to all around us
that our reflection
in an illusion-smudged mirror
turned away and blushed
too

Written: 07/05/16 Lyell McEwin Hospital, Cardiology Unit, Elizabeth, South Australia

229. After realizing I had said it all

After realizing I had said it all
I learned another language
so at least the same I say
would sound different

Written: 07/05/16 Lyell McEwin Hospital, Cardiology Unit, Elizabeth, South Australia

230. Enough room for the rain

Enough room for the rain
Enough room for your love
Enough room for dreams
this bubble holds it all
if it bursts
another big bang
all starting again
like we do each time we touch

Written: 07/05/16 Vista, South Australia

231. At the goal line

At the goal line
I scored with you
Fans looked skyward
wishing for rain
but we endure
against all odds
And when I awake
I expect
an instant replay

Written: 07/05/16 Vista, South Australia

232. Without your love
Without your love
I would be just another scarecrow
in the veggie patch
But now look at me
glowing through
darkest night

Written: 07/05/16 Vista, South Australia

233. Safe before birth

Book 3. P. 138

Safe before birth
Safe after death
the space in between
a bit frightening

Written: 07/05/16 Vista, South Australia

234. I dreamt we were two wheels

Book 3. P. 112

I dreamt we were two wheels
on a bicycle
with experience
taking us out
for a noontime spin

Written: 07/05/16 Vista, South Australia

235. Juggle struggle

Juggle struggle
jungle love
balanced landscapes
alternatives abound
draw the curtain
on a simple life
time to fly free
of this comic life
Superheroes cosmic strife
so difficult being a saint (scan envelope from Chialeah)
as I struggle in this life
of who I should be at the start
of this fading new-age

Written: 07/05/16 Vista, South Australia

236. Following particles through air

Following particles through air
does each have consciousness
A universe not seeing the bigger picture
you and I dashing through life
creating pockets of resistance
blowing particle universes out of their orbit
drifting fates
free will not a concept
for a long time
And what does our touch do
in the bigger picture
Two particles colliding
drifting
riding on waves
of light
bending in direction we cannot observe
from our minute place in the bigger picture
of the small picture we are yet a bigger picture
viewable only
by the small particle
at the start of this story

Written: 07/05/16 Vista, South Australia

237. While making a graph

Book 3. P. 8

While making a graph
of highs and lows
of touch and love
I spilt coffee
on my paper
blurring
smearing
smudging collidable data
So touch and love
equational summaries
were indistinguishable
So excuse me for needing to start again
this morning
with so much touch and love
It really is data
for my research
Written: 08/05/16 Vista, South Australia

238. Hopefully there will not be a nuclear war

Hopefully there will not be a nuclear war
as I would lose many of my
two or three e-book readers
Showing how deeply I care for
the needs of others

Written: 08/05/16 Vista, South Australia

239. Thankfully trends change

Thankfully trends change
with often times
thankless trends
taking their place
Take morning for instance
without love
the trend to turn to night
would be unexplainable

Written: 08/05/16 Vista, South Australia

240. To be lost in the maze of love

Book 3. P. 136

To be lost in the maze of love
haze of love
days of love
Is the path
of being found
in love

Written: 08/05/16 Vista, South Australia

241. Ritualistic fulfilled desire

Ritualistic fulfilled desire
love’s proof
of a spoof
confirmed

Written: 09/05/16 Vista, South Australia

242. An over calculated moment

An over calculated moment
storms unexpected
love thundering by
last gasps before surrender
Surgery of the lower dream channel
Inserted implants
to mute wayward thoughts
Now it only rains
clouding memory
short-circuiting
an over calculated moment

Written: 09/05/16 Vista, South Australia

243. Galloping hope

Galloping hope
dawn’s charade
before mid-day
melting transitions
no one to be left
to realize dawn’s game
left fading
at the doors of tomorrow
too soon to limp away

Written: 09/05/16 Vista, South Australia

244. With no physical distance left between us

Book 3. P. 140 Group

With no physical distance left between us
death made you
always at my
fingertips

Written: 09/05/16 Vista, South Australia

245. With death

Book 3. P. 140 Group

With death
you forgot me
but not me
you

Written: 09/05/16 Vista, South Australia

246. I filled a mold with dreams

I filled a mold with dreams
and put it onto
the front porch
so neighbours
would see
that there was more to me
than meets
their eyes

Written: 09/05/16 Vista, South Australia

247. Took time out

Book 3. P. 18

Took time out
to get
to know myself
sixty-eight years later
I still don’t

Written: 10/05/16 Vista, South Australia

248. I wanted to gamble responsibly

I wanted to gamble responsibly
took your love
for granted
Woke this morning
during the discovery phase of
the slight reality
I call my life
and found I had lost
But not to worry
loss is but a reminder
of what I could have had
so I bask in a memory
that was once
a reminder

Written: 10/05/16 Vista, South Australia

249. I wrapped several memories

I wrapped several memories
in glow
others in neon
some random ones in shadows
Surprisingly
during a routine
operation
the wrappings dissolved
leaving me with
raw memories
none of which mattered

Written: 11/05/16 Vista, South Australia

250. I cast a dream at the crossroads

I cast a dream at the crossroads
drifting out to sea
bouncing toward town
climbing up the mountain
twisting around your love
At the crossroads
dreams became fragments
I stayed
Nothing was retained

Written: 12/05/16 Port Parham, South Australia

251. Drive-through love

Drive-through love
much more stable/in-depth/profound
than

·        Cyber-love

·        Back-room-pub-love

·        Jungle-love

·        Mile-high love with a foreign speaking stewardess

·        Ritualistic-love

·        Dance-floor love

·        Zombie-love

But never as honest 
as alley-cat-love

Written: 12/05/16 Port Parham, South Australia

 

252. Fanfare at the start of our love

Fanfare at the start of our love
and all these years later
continual
orchestrated
symphonic moments
celebrating our touch
at each direction
we become

Written: 12/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

253. Settled

Book 3. P. 6

Settled
unfamiliar with this colour
not sure about this sound
do not understand
this feeling
living a life
unexplainable

Written: 12/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

254. When time bended back

When time bended back
on to itself
folded memories
twisted space
and atoms grew with
the thought of love
I heard echoes of your whispers
vibrate through both past and future
simultaneously
making now
forever more
without ending or beginning
By following the end to its beginning
the essence of love
was captured then released
to create a perfect
spiral cycle
with you and me
in its midst

Written: 12/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

255. Once back in order

Once back in order
morning’s obsession
with evening
sparked an endless
discussion
of how direction
enslaves
and why with what follows
is a bias of nature’s
orderliness
Leaving chaos
confused and randomness
at odds with itself

Written: 12/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

256. Put on a disguise

Put on a disguise
went incognito
grew a bead
changed my hair to polka dot
funny glasses
got a new name
tried some new-age thinking
became a vegetarian
moved to Australia
drove a fancy bike
had children
planted a garden
Still my karma found me
recognized me
Tonight sleepin’ in the alley
hungry for dreams
never to come true

Written: 13/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

257. While looking forward to tomorrow

While looking forward to tomorrow
today came and went
and I missed it
Looking forward
to tomorrow
to do today again
because I missed it

Written: 13/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

258. If it wasn’t for the same technique
If it wasn’t for the same technique
I would not be able
to make the same mistakes
over and over
surprising my critics
and leaving me bewildered

Written: 13/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

259. The day after I forgot my name she called me
The day after I forgot my name she called me
I did not know
now in old age
I would be reminded
about a youth I lived and now
would probably remember
if only I could recall my name
and why she is calling me
or whomever I am
with a muffled voice
blowing past me
on this wicked wind
of distorted memory

Written: 13/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

260. My father was a world-class explorer

Book 3. P. 19

My father was a world-class explorer
He discovered my mother
raised the flag
staked a claim
sounded a salute
But like all great explorers
there were other places to conquer
‘Why set up a settlement
leave her to the next explorer’
my dad probably often said
So my dad went forth eventually
quite soon after I came along actually
to start colonies in other lands
My mother did too
Life without me
After tiring of being an orphan
I too became an explorer
looking for mum
looking for dad
looking for life
Along the way to Never-Finding
I discovered a lot
all of which I passed on to No-One at all
So she would not spend time following
the same path as me
with never a result too

Written: 14/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

261. While waiting for life to load
While waiting for life to load
morning to re-boot
the virus of last night to be removed
I planted a garden
of new hope
mulched with dreams of a better time
You and I before you died

Written: 14/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

262. Morning laughed at night

Morning laughed at night
‘now is my time’
as night snuck
away
under a cloud of suspected secretive suspension silently

Written: 14/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

263. You live in hope

Book 3. P. 107

You live in hope
I live in dreams
together
cares of the world
beyond our free to love touch
always knowing
tomorrow
will be so much finer

Written: 14/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

264. We talked about times no more

We talked about times no more
we can have
As if we could
step into the past
and never get to where we are now
Reminiscing
and talking about
where we would be in the future
Which would never have been
here

Written: 14/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

265. Raced through
Raced through
No stopping
Focused
Fading distant start
Clear the finish
So exciting
Only issue
What to do
When there

Written: 14/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

266. Great people

Book 3. P. 96

Great people
have time to be great
We common people
are too busy

Written: 15/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

267. My life

Book 3. P. 116

My life
a shrine
to
the unrealized dream

Written: 15/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

268. Because morning

Because morning
has no one to please
no one to judge
no one to doubt
everyday
so original

Written: 15/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

269. God was created
God was created
to blame
to praise
to fear
to thank
to request
to love
to hate
To morrow
we will create ourselves
so the God we created will have
someone
to blame
to praise
to fear
to thank
to request
to love
to hate

Written: 15/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

270. Clouds moved in

Clouds moved in
unexpected rain fell
sunny prognosis now
you through
an open door
protection
from anything
nature
sends our way

Written: 16/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

271. Streets we once laughed and played in

Book 3. P. 43

Streets we once laughed and played in
changed
New buildings
different traffic patterns
foreigners filling sidewalk cafes
not there when we were
Memories of us together momentarily replace
the present unwelcomed scene
I try to focus on them
Horns beep  People yell
I am in the middle of the street
laughing and playing with you
But then we’re not
I limp to the sidewalk
tears blur my vision
If only you had not taken your life
I could text you
email you
Facebook you
about being caught
standing in the middle of a busy street
thinking about
a moment we had shared so long ago
and again today

Written: 16/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

272. I wanted to chart our moments

Book 3. P. 73

I wanted to chart our moments
To navigate past Saturn’s stubbornness
and Mar’s desires
Planets merged we didn’t
Futures without prediction
Making it up as we go
So much easier without a chart

Written: 17/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

273. Silhouettes quickly dissolving

Book 3. P. 87

Silhouettes quickly dissolving
along this horizon
replaced repetitions
of misplaced harmonies
Shadows grew
dreams diminished
peacefulness fell
discord arose
what a time to party
When balance has no rhythm
and life merges
with silhouettes upon our horizon


Written: 17/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

274. In perfect proportion

In perfect proportion
clouds filled the space between moments
covering
you and I running through the sky
invisible to judgement
by an ill-tempered
approaching storm

Written: 18/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

275. Too tired

Book 3. P. 139

Too tired
to even dream
of love

Written: 18/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

276. I came second

Book 3. P. 51

I came second
in a race
with myself
What a disgrace
for a shadow

Written: 18/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

277. Frolicking cells in the bottom chamber

Frolicking cells in the bottom chamber
of my heart
Not sure if it is from
thoughts of you
shock from not seeing you
or just the faulty vales
I have
that the doctor is shoving
a pacemaker in to ameliorate

Written: 18/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

278. Chosen

Chosen
this for that
here not there
freedom over slavery
yesterday over slavery
yesterday replaced today
the best choice
ever

Written: 18/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

279. Dream snippets

Dream snippets
spliced together
packaged
carried away
in a wind
for me to navigate
an unpopular tomorrow through

Written: 18/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

280. I thought my love for you was sustainable

I thought my love for you was sustainable
until I awoke
You were not there
and my pillow was on fire
I ran out the door
swam to a neighbouring island
saw you swimming out to sea
Now stranded
I have only a few coconut shells
to spell out my demise
on this deserted beach

Written: 19/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

281. I had a significant consciousness-opening life-altering

Book 3. P. 46

I had a significant consciousness-opening life-altering
Self-enhancing
epiphany
But she passed
Before I could remember
who I was

Written: 19/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

282. Your life was my life neither no more

Book 3. P. 140 Group

Your life
was my life
Neither no more

 

Written: 19/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

283. Preparations
Preparations
every detail
nothing left to chance
perfection in the making
no one informed us
we slept in
morning came
we didn’t applaud
the dawn of a new age
we missed it

Written: 19/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

284. In a disruptive moment
Book 3. P. 16

In a disruptive moment
love
sailed away

Written: 20/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

285. Along the ridge of my dreams

Along the ridge of my dreams
I galloped away
from wakefulness
fearing discovery
I was not a warrior
would end my reign
of this life
I live amongst the clouds on the ridge

Written: 20/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

286. In the least amount of time

Book 3. P. 89

In the least amount of time
yesterday
catapulted
over today
tomorrow reborn

Written: 20/05/16 Vista, SA

287. As I thought it would be

Book 3. P. 104
As I thought it would be
A scenic lineup
of drifting thoughts
pasted together
as my life
at my last breath
to recall in a dream
in some future life

Written: 21/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

288. Sky screamed

Sky screamed
River chuckled
Highways rambled
The way to you
difficult
The way without you
impossible

Written: 21/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

289. A chocolate covered dream

A chocolate covered dream
ruined
any chance of a diet
of realism
you not with me

Written: 21/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

290. Such drama

Such drama
If only change was calmer
I would welcome
what I cannot control
and be free
of this quickly
evolving life

Written: 21/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

291. Unfortunately each iteration

Unfortunately each iteration
disproved the one before
scrambling
my reasoning
as I lay in the alley
Believing I was
sunning myself on the beach

Written: 22/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

292. Unable to locate

Book 3. P. 15
Unable to locate the key to success
failure slipped out a side door
and visited me
so as not to go
into tomorrow
alone

Written: 22/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

293. All that you could have been
All that you could have been
never having a chance
at any
leaving life by choice so young
so we
the left behinds
could only imagine
all you
could have been

Written: 22/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

294. So many connections

So many connections
We talk
about nourishment
I would rather eat a handful of strawberries
Leave the connections
to the unconnected masses
Being disconnected
and full
is plenty
and all I could ever want

Written: 22/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

295. The plane crashed into the sea

The plane crashed into the sea
Do we mourn our loss
or celebrate
their freedom
from an imprisoned earth

Written: 22/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

296.Only I knew it was my turn

Book 3. P. 41

Only I knew it was my turn
sun rose
sun set
I waved
The seagulls took my turn
no one saw
so I will wait
until it is my turn again
three-lifetimes hence
on a distant
solar system
so great are my chances
If only I could wait

Written: 23/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

297. I thought love had gone cold

I thought love had gone cold
but it was just my coffee
left over from a time before
and a cool breeze
coming down from the hills
causing a shiver
I had not foreseen

Written: 23/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

298. Love’s mask removed
Love’s masked removed
dissolved longings
detoured hurdles
freed logic
and left me wanting
more

Written: 23/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

299. Genetic consciousness

Genetic consciousness
spliced with caveman desire
begat a myth
revolution
you and me
and every story
possible

Written: 23/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

300. Waiting on a phone call from god

Book 3. P. 141

Waiting on a phone call from god
checked my email
twitter Facebook
messenger
snapchat
Instagram
as well as 73 other apps
Nothing
Next month
when I go back outside
I will see if god is using smoke signals
to tell me I exist

Written: 24/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

301. So surprised to be at the same

So surprised to be at the same
when all had
assumed
to be at so different a places
More like a reflection of once before
than a shadow of what could be
So thank you
this moment
for letting now be so perfect once again

Written: 26/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

302. In the future

In the future
when everyone else
forgets today
I won’t
and will do it again

Written: 26/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

303. Random thoughts

Random thoughts
hidden amongst fading memories
each a surprise of once were possibilities
Some nourished
others packaged
and sent off to sail on foreign ideas
the best saved to appear
as tokens in the breeze
at the end of time
not long after yesterday

Written: 26/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

304. I traded love for desire

I traded love for desire
what a traitor
emotions are

Written: 26/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

305. I went missing

I went missing
no one noticed
after running circles
around maybe who I was
the sky settled
rain cleared
I found a mountain lake
with my reflection
I dove in
and found myself naked at birth
again

Written: 26/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

306. Expectantly

Expectantly
nature stopped
humans didn’t
life no more

Written: 26/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

307. We do today

We do today
which tomorrow
will quickly reinvent
to learn change-adaption
as the future will not embrace
today or yesterday
but only then

Written: 26/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

308. Ideas replaced books

Ideas replaced books
on the shelf
leaving dust to settle on
somewhere else
less narrative

Written: 26/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

309. A dream drought

A dream drought
created a perfect reality moment
A world so clear
in a most surreal fashion
where dreams and reality meshed
surrounding me in a mist
of first born scents

Written: 26/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

310. Numb to now
Numb to now
Pain a while ago
They cut me open
Played with my heart
Inserted
defibrillator-pacemaker
who knows what else
I tried to focus on a past dream
when my heart was poetic
nothing came and went
Not sure about the nature of the physical
Time to chill
But I want to dance
that is the nature of the physical
Take good drugs
to make bad pain float away
The best part of life
is the escape from life

Written: 27/05/16 Lyell McEwin Hospital, Cardiology Unit, Elizabeth, South Australia

311. The pedestal

The pedestal
we placed today upon
dissolved into tomorrow
with variants of rainbows
capturing our imagination
creating a new pedestal enhanced day

Written: 29/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

312. By sleeping through today

By sleeping through today
I forgot an opportunity
to do it over again

Written: 29/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

313. I downloaded today

I downloaded today
as an app
from the tomorrow store

Written: 29/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

314. With an average of eleven memories

With an average of eleven memories
per hour
the past got bundled into one
travel into tomorrow-sized package
So we could travel in first-class
on an economy budget
all the way through the mountain pass
of another dreamless night
alone

Written: 29/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

315. With you as a basic ingredient

With you as a basic ingredient
I feasted upon a royal
banquet
of endless pleasure

Written: 29/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

316. I did every single one
I did every single one
leaving none behind
Now I stand in awe
watching others
pick up after me
laughingly proclaiming
‘he missed this one’

Written: 29/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

317. While jotting down

While jotting down
notes of how to rule the world
I noticed that testing was not allowed
while driving
so I stopped
knowing the loss the world would receive
but felt proud
I had followed the rules

Written: 29/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

318. Without morning’s fickle startup
Without morning’s fickle startup
everyday would start the same
without interpretation

Written: 29/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

319. I went to sleep looking at a photo of you
I went to sleep looking at a photo of you
so it would appear in my dream
as once-we-were

Written: 29/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

320. By stretching the truth

Book 4. P. 6

By stretching the truth
I managed to believe
more than I had ever before

Written: 29/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

321. I thought it was a metaphor about my heart stopping
I thought it was a metaphor about my heart stopping
until I awoke from surgery
and felt the mechanical tools
plugged into my heart to keep it going
long after love has gone cold

Written: 29/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

322. Losing becomes victory’s favourite
Losing becomes victory’s favourite
pastime
as gutters and alleys
fill with the unforgiven
and memories of you

Written: 29/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

323. A radical moment

Book 4. P. 31

A radical moment
discovered the purpose
of a reason to disrupt
an ordinary space
in time

Written: 30/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

324, Too bare the winter

Too bare the winter
shivering
in embarrassment
that Eden is covered in snow
and the Outback
left naked
to face dawn’s
suspicious smile

Written: 30/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

325. Farmers smiled

Book 4. P. 24

Farmers smiled
as skies grieved
and cloud tearfully
covered the parched land
with healing rain

Written: 30/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

326. Proclamations absorbed

Proclamations absorbed
directions desired
leaving us
to dispute wisdom
as a guiding factor
of creation’s evolution
We could have not listened
gone forward
as if our vision
was warranted
But with the herd
we trampled
any chance of creative direction
and limped defective
into a future
scripted by the self-appointed
elite
who stole our birthright
and left us
sniveling along the side

Written: 30/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

327. I stumbled on an idea

I stumbled on an idea
that left me as a bruised and battered
narrative
with no concluding storyline
to these non-rhythmic chapters I live
and worse still
no troubadours in sight
to carry on such a tale

Written: 30/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

328. My proposal

My proposal:
Cover telephone towers with chocolate
              top with organic cherries
Recognize my saintliness
Take the dogs surfing
Paint fences tree colour
Educate dead politicians
Let children destroy silence
And make dotted lines legal
Anything else would prove a conspiracy
of rulership by aliens
creating  an environment unsustainable

Written: 30/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

329. I tried living life in the space between

Book 4. P. 40

I tried living life in the space between
two dots
Then the rain washed away
one of the dots
and twisted the space I lived in
Preventing
my imaginary world
from turning back on
the street lights
so I could see
my life dissolving
in the loo

Written: 30/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

330. I was on the wrong side

I was on the wrong side
to learn the right thing
Proving learning
has little value

Written: 31/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

331. The paranoid dawn

The paranoid dawn
hid from an alien night
trying to embed
a past memory
of unfulfilled desires
while she slept
cloudy day ahead

Written: 31/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

332. Bouncing about
Bouncing about
Ricocheting off of what could be
Thrown against
too many what ifs
Cast into seas of doubt
Torn by thorns
born of fears
So excuse me
for not following
or believing
while I lay here
in the karma of my ancestors
who no longer worry about anything
except that I may redo
what they undid
in an ancient dream

Written: 31/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

333. Thoughts of you casting shadows in front of each step

Thoughts of you casting shadows in front of each step
I take
wondering where
you are leading
Whether I will ever catch up
or always
just out of reach
as you were
just before you tossed your life away

Written: 31/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

334. Food for thought

Book 4. P. 64
Food for thought
left me hungry
and malnourished

Written: 31/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

335. After gathering most of it all

After gathering most of it all
together
I created a hole
as a receptacle
and waited for a UFO
to neutralize my efforts
so I could donate it to the local museum
as a Halloween prank

Written: 31/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

336. Weeds in my garden

Book 4. P. 20

Weeds in my garden
often dream of becoming
beautiful flowers
picked and placed on the Queen’s table
Silly plants
they have no concept
of reality
and should stop pretending
as they choke to death on my weed-killer spray

Photo/Written: 31/05/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

337. Words replaced feeling

Book 5. P. 132

Words replaced feeling
Saturday’s magicians
played a hoax
on Sunday’s love
making me feel OK
to be without us
again today

Written: 01/06/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

338. “I will be right back”

“I will be right back”
evening screamed
running behind
a nuclear sequence
Evolution will start again
then evening will return
to party
millions of years from now
with no memories of us

Written: 01/06/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

339. No attempt was made to record the change
Now being lost
is the new being found

Written: 01/06/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

340. Creation began

Book 4. P. 124

Creation beganwith a series of sticky notes
stuck to the wall of time
Now as they lose
their stickiness
we will have to figure
how to keep
things going without instruction

Written: 01/06/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

341. Barely halfway

Book 4. P. 106

Barely halfway
through the start
the end waits
laughing at our indiscretions

Written: 01/06/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

342. Such a distressed tree

Book 4. P. 71

Such a distressed tree
every morning complaining
to me
about never achieving fame
not having any Facebook friends
no recognition
not having enough water
not able to rest because of shrieking birds
being jealous of the neighbour’s flowering tree
the day she lost her leaves
and on and on
day after day
so I chopped the tree down
used it in my fireplace
to warm myself as I sought fame
social media friends, and quenched my thirst
with fancy cheap champagne

Written: 01/06/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

343. Now she wants me:

Now she wants me:
whispering romantic lyrics
catching me seeing her
in the corner of my eye
scent my path
with THAT perfume
hums our favourite jingle
laughs at my jokes
If only she had continued
instead of killing herself
thirty-years-ago
I would be more attentive
to her innuendos

Written: 01/06/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

344. While reframing today

While reframing today
morning swept away dreams
leaving only us to glow
together
at the edge of time

Written: 02/06/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

345. Lined up

Book 4. P. 26

Lined up ready to go
cleared paths
no hindrances
the marathon began
social media was a buzz
one-by-one
the grass started to grow

Written: 02/06/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

346. Dissolving walls

Book 4. P.47

Dissolving walls no hints of resolution
When I was a child I had a plan
to free the forest
I too would escape soon after
following a path yet to be determined
I may have taken a detour
before I had learned to read the signs
Somehow I became lost
I can hear beyond me being all still
a muffled sound
quieted by an abstract wind
“this way mate”
I turn then it changes direction
Nothing is predictable
though now that the walls are crumbling
I may yet remember my plan
to become free of this life
I and the forest are tethered to

Written: 02/06/16  Vista, South Australia
Photo: July 2009 Castello Estense, Ferrara, Italy

347. Deconstructed love

Deconstructed love
values minus feeling
shaped enhanced in extruded desires

Written: 03/06/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia


348. If I could do it over

If I could do it over
I would have had my eyes open
when you dug a hole and went into it
just to see what direction
you would come out of

Written: 03/06/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

349. On my way to Shakespeare
Book 4. P. 61

On my way to Shakespeare
I wrote something else
An unremarkably broken-sonnet in its own right
but quite contentious
in its obscurity
for future generations
to easily forget

Written: 03/06/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

350. Disappearing into the midst

Disappearing into the midst
we could all see through the dream
leaving us all on the horizon
naked in thought

Written: 03/06/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

351. A slow start

A slow start
but eventually
excitement grew
to overtake
such a sluggish start
to our awakening love

Written: 03/06/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

352. Abundance’s regrets

Abundance’s regrets
no one left
to re-performance with

Written: 03/06/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

353. Failed to understand
Book 4. P. 58
Failed to understand
Now the conjunction
of Moon to Saturn
You to Me
Us to Them
has no bearing on my life
or whether tomorrow will rain
Leaving non-us to cry in the dawn

Written: 03/06/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

354. While replaying a memory-film

While replaying a memory-film
in slow motion
I saw how our first kiss
swept away all thoughts
and filled this time capsule of then
with volumes of fulfillment
replayable
again
today

Written: 03/06/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

355. We finally die

We finally die
when we have filled our memory bank
with all we can carry
into our next non-life

Written: 03/06/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

356. Only one last
Only one last
left
all else
must come before

Written: 03/06/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

357. Not ready for the change

Not ready for the change
making the change
so much easier
to experience

Written: 03/06/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

358. The robot that was created
The robot that was created
to replace me
went on strike
leaving me
with it all to do
again

Written: 03/06/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

359. Unexpectedly:

Book 4. P. 122

Unexpectedly:
Needs faltered

Desires crumbled

Dreams took flight

All plans set aside in haste

So excuse me

Any resemblance to making sense

Ushered out by the mist

Now I laugh freely in non-committal fashions
blindly ignored by the passing elite
but highly sought after by my Higher-Self
as an antidote to whom others deem I should be

 

Written: 04/06/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

60. Challenge misinterpreted

Book 5. P. 103

Challenge misinterpreted  

Left the victorious asleep
on the side-line of dismantled hope

 

Written: 04/06/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

361. Threatened by the extinction of feelings

Threatened by the extinction of feelings
Archaeologists stored them away
for a future time
when love will be lost
to all

But observed by youthful robots at the museum
of once-upon-a-time

Written: 04/06/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

362. Soon after life on earth

Soon after life on earth
was recognized as a novelty
in our local galaxy
it was packaged, marketed, and sold
at a little known random market
in an alley between two dying star systems
to the left of Andromeda
and that is why we are all
still alive

Written: 04/06/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

363. What will be

What will be
could have been
if only time
was more malleable
so as to curl over itself
then inside out
and reverse
what could have been
to what will be

Written: 04/06/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

364. While watching words float by

While watching words float by
I snatched a few that were incoherent
so I could write
this sonnet

Written: 04/06/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

365. Humans were domesticated by cats

Humans were domesticated by cats
long before dogs
came along
to spark
religious intolerance
in those while believed they were in control

Written: 04/06/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

366. To chance the sail
Book 5. P. 90

To chance the sail
horizon line readjusted
love on the deck
desire burns free
shore distant memory

Written: 04/06/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

367. Mapped a way
to restart with secret labels
hidden beneath smouldering rocks
where I could stumble over
if at the end
Then the rain fell and my map washed a way
Now every day
I imagine where I would be
if I had not started

Written: 05/06/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

368. Dissatisfied with the laws of gravity

Dissatisfied with the laws of gravity
believing they were part of a larger conspiracy
set in motion
by intelligent rodents of an alien planet
the protesters jumped off of a cliff
to prove their conspiracy theory
and became food for rodents
So their theory was proven to be true

Written: 05/06/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

369. What we lost gained momentum

What we lost gained momentum
without reflection
as the miracle of change-booted moments
blew away in the wind

Written: 05/06/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

370. Without magic

Without magic
swirling colours
have no chance
to solidify into solid constructs
to live our lives in

Written: 05/06/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

371. I reshaped my life so it would fit

Book 4. P. 78

I reshaped my life
so it would fit through a crack in the door
Now on the other side
the applause I hear was not for me
so I slid back through the door
so as to have a quiet refrain
in the rainy shadows of now forgotten
this misshaped life

Written: 05/06/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

372. Scribbled thoughts

Scribbled thoughts
portraits of us
washed away in the rain

Written: 06/06/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

373. Times before

Times before
mixed with times after
a perfect recipe
for a Saturday dinner-party
alone

Written: 06/06/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

374. All you could have been

All you could have been
baseball star, model, actor, writer
all round great dude
handing me grandchildren on weekends
All you could be
more than ashes in a box
holding up my computer monitor
Leaving me lost in all that
could have been

Written: 06/06/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

375. You and I
a shocking new age conspiracy
leaving secret societies
gasping for air
in a backroom of our dreams

Written: 06/06/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

376. I do not care about living in a zoo
as long as no one else
believes they are too

Written: 06/06/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

377. Life like love lingers longer

Life like love lingers longer
properly nourished

Written: 06/06/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

378. My secret lovers

Book 4. P. 111

My secret lovers
are my memories
I sneak out and visit
when no one is aware

Written: 07/06/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

379. Re-invented memory

Re-invented memory
Today so different
Now I can be who I could have been
if I had been different
than who I am now

Written: 07/06/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

379. I followed you to the end of my dream
Now awake
I try to get back
to where you were
going
Rushing off beyond my reach
Always close
but never touching you
who once shared with me the space
of the living
but now just distant areas
of my dreams
so unreachable

Written: 07/06/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

380. I was so far from the truth
I almost believed in myself
twisted tales of the way it was
is
just a reminder to stay clear of the truth
when it is blocking a healthy lie
such as
the sun rises each day
to light our way
lighten our way
when in fact
there are no correlations

Written: 07/06/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

381. I stretched my mind

I stretched my mind
to the breaking point
trying to imagine
life before
life after
me
Now in Nano-chunks
my mind floats through random spaces
over broken horizons and into elastic times
hopefully
gradually regrouping
within shattered boundaries
of wishful desires
unfulfilled

Written: 07/06/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

382. In the distance I saw my past
Book 4. P. 44
In the distance I saw my past
rushing toward me
to be repackaged
recycled
regretted

Written: 07/06/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

383. I took a day off from being me

Book 4. P. 68

I took a day off from being me
What an interesting error
No one knew who I was
Dogs that I thought were friendly
now growled
The postman took one look
then put my mail in the neighbour’s box
My wife asked who was
the stranger at the table
My children rang the police
Mirror cracked, my pacemaker stopped
My chickens stopped laying eggs
Social media shunned me
The FBI, CIA, secret societies and others
tracking me
stopped
It has been a good day
I may try this again
tomorrow

Written: 08/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

384. Silence beckoned an evening calm

Silence beckoned an evening calm
to become master of change
and for the wind to rest for a duration
In response the calm was shattered
like love swept youth
and as in antiquity
wind swept clear all that was present

Written: 08/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

385. Spark of desire

Spark of desire
frees innocence
of timid existence
whereas flame of desire
ignites unstoppable
passion
Excitement in my life

Written: 08/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

386. You cried I laughed
often
seldom in sync
rain               sun
mountain    beach
How love held us together
same as what holds
the cosmos together

Written: 09/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

 

387. Soon after I died

Soon after I died
you texted me
that I was the one for you
Thanks dear

Written: 09/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

388. So many theories
beliefs reasons
to choose from
Mix a few
shake together
merge beat and blend
They work on getting others
to believe the same to agree
sponsor donate
praise follow
anything other than to be forgotten
ignored
pushed aside
as I am

Written: 09/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

389. We swept change away

We swept change away
marvelling at continuation
of conformity
in such fractured
times we live in

Written: 10/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

390. I lined my dreams up

I lined my dreams up
end to end
and followed them into space
now I don’t want to come back

Written: 10/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

391. Without interpretation

Without interpretation
we understood one another’s meanings
speaking only
the language of desire
accentuate by dreams gone wild

Written: 10/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

392. Life is

Book 4. P. 34

Life is
as unpredictable as love found
on an adjancet
bar stool

Written: 10/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

393. We remembered how it was

We remembered how it was
so differently
that we created new memories
of how it was
So much better
than the original

Written: 11/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

394. So much easier to tell ourselves lies

So much easier to tell ourselves lies
as long as we get others to believe
them
and the others repeat
the tales to u
so we can believe
in our newly created version of ourselves
and stand naked at the seashore
yelling at the waves
that now is the time to believe

Written: 11/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

395. I downloaded karma recognition software

Book 4. P. 117

I downloaded karma recognition software
to see if I could avoid paying off
when I left you alone in the alley
but the app store
said it was hacked into by yesterday’s desire
and to stay in the cloud
for further updates

Written: 11/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

396. On a miscellaneous planet

On a miscellaneous planet
humans created god
with so many names
that eventually the created god
got confused and left
leaving the planet to wander
endlessly through my life

Written: 11/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

397. On the final test of my life

Book 4. P 4

On the final test of my life
I died
never knowing whether I passed
or failed

Written: 12/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

398. I scribbled my sentiments for you

I scribbled my sentiments for you
when the tide was out
Now your message washed away
under a full moon
flooding the shore
wiping out all hope
of you ever knowing
sculptured words for you
washed away in a rising tide

Written: 12/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

399. Heavy with sleep

Heavy with sleep
memories blurred by passing passions
not answerable in this state of mind
waiting for future moments
fulfilment in the making

Written: 12/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

400. As if life does not continue

As if life does not continue
we lived it to the fullest
climbing to the top of tomorrow
then letting it slip away
without care or remorse
another time come and gone
another life come and gone
another dream come and gone
never knowing whether life continues or not

Written: 13/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

401. I had so much

I had so much
to do
today
that I stayed in bed
Went back to sleep
Dreamt of you and me
laying wrapped together
Hidden in a clamshell
on the beach
sand imbedded
with nothing but love
to do

Written: 13/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

402. I turned to a whispering wind

I turned to a whispering wind
for guidance
What direction
Who to believe
What is the message
Why bother
Without results now unsure
We all fall down

Written: 13/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

403. Life neatly sorted folded placed

Book 4. P. 101

Life neatly sorted folded placed
Drawers Closets Shelves
Age comes
Years gone
All tossed into boxes
Carted away
Memories all
that are left
No one left
to care
All the years’ collections off to the dump
Landfill
for future inhabitants
to build homes upon
and begin their temporary life’s
passing collections

Written: 14/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

404. Having come to

Having come to
the
or at least
a
conclusion
that without now
then could never be
we tossed out yesterday’s theories Written:

14/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

405. Rung dry

Rung dry
ran dry
dried up
floating away
nothing left
Wave as I pass by
I am a shadow
Just a streak of light
always in the corner of your sight
We will be one
when it all disappears

Written: 15/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

406. Next life time if I come back as a shrub

Next life time if I come back as a shrub
I hope to have
less to say
than I do now

Written: 15/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

407. A chance for peace

A chance for peace
blinded us
to a chance to evolve
through
revolution

Written: 15/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

408. I looked you up  on the internet
I looked you up on the internet
in hopes of reuniting with a shared memory
All I could fine
were pages I had uploaded
long ago
of moments we knew
back before you died
taking with you
future memories
possibilities

Written: 15/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

409. While assembling an explanation
While assembling an explanation
to share
for a reason to exist
the slowly eroding mountain
crumbled into the sea
taking millions of years of thoughts
with it

Written: 15/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

410. The more I like this moment

The more I like this moment
the more it becomes the past
faster moving into the next
no place left for yesterday

Written: 16/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

410. I forget who I am

I forget who I am
start thinking I am you
listening to me
telling one of my stories
that I surprisingly lived through
only to have you remind me
you are dead and I need to stop being you
and pay more attention
to being me

Written: 16/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

411. During a practice of total difference

During a practice of total difference
not counting synchronicity
city streets united
becoming a country road
for escaping long lost freedoms
to fly away
once and forever upon

Written: 17/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

412. Cast out from a lingering memory

Cast out from a lingering memory
she was
street food
organic freshly picked
foreign taste
Excited by this decaying city
surrendering love
@ the end of a new-moon lit dead-end street
to the chorus of hallelujah
at the church social
(of Our Lord of Lost Virgins Night)
Appetites appeased I went to the night market
to look for more
but it was closed
another night off to bed hungry without love

Written: 17/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

413. Found love amongst a tear gas lit alley

Found love amongst a tear gas lit alley
during the riots of virgins
We were
passing passion protesters
striking for love
loving for change
demanding desire
to fill our needs
The fault-line shifted
We were swallowed by moments gone wild
Though no one saw us exploding in the distance
beyond this impossible times
made manifest
in a haze of tears

Written: 17/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

414. I dreamt of success long after failure

I dreamt of success long after failure
gave me the finger
and even though
I know dreams do not come true
I laughed at how successful
at failure I was

Written: 17/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

415. I am a minor actor in my life

I am a minor actor in my life
My shadow the major performer
hiding from the applause
of deafening stillness
that my life has become

Written: 17/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

416. With so little working this morning

With so little working this morning
today was put into a box
stored in a gulley
past the river bend
to be re-visited
after a new saviour
is self-proclaimed
to twist us back
into starting over again

Written: 18/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

417. I traded now for then

I traded now for then
and then for before
and on and on
Like any good card trader
So I could
group all together
and burn with the
ashes of yesterday

Written: 18/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

418. I moved into

Book 4. P. 66

I moved into
a self-reflective
outwardly-cloudy
burst-free bubble
and bounced past the world
of importance
without caring

Written: 18/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

419. Yesterday

Yesterday
when I was so much younger
I took a hold of the sky
today I see only clouds
now the situations
is tired
only rain constantly dampening what could have been
Written: 18/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

420. Your body

Your body
a treasure map
riches full
lifetime
pleasure

Written: 19/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

421. I knew something had changed

I knew something had changed
when I awoke
Everyone was alive
except for me
I waved
no one saw me
I said remember me
no one heard
I did ghostly things
everyone walked on

Written: 20/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

422. In a moment of anxiety performance

In a moment of anxiety performance
morning closed ranks
with the night before
delaying the onset
of today

Written: 20/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

423. Ripened fruit at the end of the alley

Ripened fruit at the end of the alley
tasted too often
to give pleasure again
Me the passing stranger
not knowing she was ripe fruit
until my desire
laid unfulfilled
on the broken pavement

Written: 20/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

424. In a dangerous speculation
In a dangerous speciulation
I assumed
she would last longer
than the evening’s frost
Another ice age
without repentance

Written: 20/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

425. I watched outside my window

I watched outside my window
day die
but I didn’t
here inside
filling empty spaces
to pass through my window
so a new day
can be created

Written: 21/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

426. Frustrated with creation’s lack of desire

Frustrated with creation’s lack of desire
a new universe filled with me
erupted into being
and put the current universe
filled with you
into a balloon
and sent it a drift
What a colorful universe now exists.

Written: 21/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

427. Since you died

Book 4. P. 119

Since you died
I never go to the door
answer the phone
 check my Facebook, Twitter, Instagram
wake from my dreams
Knowing you will not be there

Written: 21/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

428. Too few pages turned quickly

Too few pages turned quickly
fast past
life blurs
sputters
then ends
with rain-washed memories
flooding
then drowning
any possibilities of saving
Life summed up in too few pages
now gone
forever

Written: 21/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

429. Wisdom floated out to sea

Wisdom floated out to sea
in a leaking vessel
leaving all on land
amazed
at how dumb they were
and how wise
the sea’s inhabitants were

Written: 21/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

430. “Is this all I lived for”
“Is this all I lived for”
said the flower
soon after bees and birds
drained treasures
from her
then was picked by some dude
and given to another
in hopes of getting laid
“if I had known this I would never have blossomed”
Said the once proud flower
now crumbled and stomped on
at the foot of the sweat soaked bed

Written: 21/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

431. Lost power

Lost power
darkness descending
not sure of renewal
this is it
no chance of return
lined up
all fall down
But wait
life returns
another chance
to start over
excitement sputters
sparkles
ignites
rushing forward
a small ray of starting
bursting through
another world
new to explore

Written: 22/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

432. Now that the pressure is off

Book 4. P. 73

Now that the pressure is off
I can reveal
I am not me

Written: 22/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

433. I looked for a ring tone

I looked for a ring tone
for my phone
of when you whispered fifty years ago
‘together we’ll always be’
but you slipped into death
I did not have a phone in my pocket
just an image of you
then
and though I hear you
still whispering to me
on full-moon nights in my sleep
I am unable to capture
your voice
Or any part of you
to play on my phone
now so long past
when I believed
your whisper
was true

Written: 22/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

434. I looked for a ring tone

I looked for a ring tone
for my phone
of when you
whispered fifty years ago
to me in a rainstorm
‘together we will always be’
but you died long ago
I did not have a phone in my pocket
at the time
and though I hear you
still whispering in my sleep
I can never capture
your voice
to play on my phone
now so long past
when I believed
your whisper
would last longer
than the rainstorm
we had been in
that washed you away
Threw me upon the banks
of a flooded past

Written: 22/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

435. Not being prepared for sudden passsions

Book 4. P. 8

Not being prepared for sudden passions
openly displayed
beneath her arms
Bed of leaves
Deflowered desire
Cries of fulfillment
The tree leaned
whispering to the wind
‘next time
I am coming back as a human’

Written: 23/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

436. Dimly the moment shines

Dimly the moment shines
surrounded
engulfed
by random nothingness
history records selected spaces
filled with forgotten reason
to why the moment
should shine at all

Written: 23/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

437. In a superstitious ritual

Book 4. P.80

In a superstitious ritual
trees outside my window
chant my name each dawn
and gently bow toward me
Believing by doing so
I will not use them for firewood
So far their belief system
is working
But if it gets much colder
they will be sacrificed
at the winter solstice
for my salvation

Written: 24/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

438. In a blended good-bad moment
In a blended good-bad moment
flames destroyed
past memories
and warmed
frozen memories
so we could remember
what we had forgotten

Written: 24/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

439. We hold hands walking through the mall

We hold hands walking through the mall
Laugh at one another’s jokes
Point out items in store-front displays
I order two plates of food
at the diner
Yours goes untouched
because you died long ago
and I am left
talking to a memory of you
in front of me
that no one else
can see

Written: 24/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

440. Sensing a new scent

Sensing a new scent
a swarm of bees
attacked the burglar
disguised as an apple blossom
as he put on the queen’s crown
to turn a quick trick
at the church social
Running through the vestibule
and climbing the bell tower
as it rang for mass
the burglar’s Screams
were synchronized with the bell toll
so no one heard
the flight of the bumble bees
and their discordant hums
in harmony with the burglar’s pain
and the death of the apple blossom
as it wilted without redemption
on another average
typical regular Tuesday afternoon

Written: 24/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

441. Left behind
Left behind
imagination simplified
hallucinations identified
this transformative
moment
left behind
for another time

Written: 25/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

442. I started erasing

I started erasing
all the lame positive sayings on Facebook
pasted over images
of dogs and cats
in hopes
to decommission
irrational emotional
unhappy people
who count likes
to their stupid sayings
as a currency
of fools gone holy
So far this week
I have managed to erase
five of my own
including me

Written: 25/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

443. I googled myself
I googled myself
to discover more about me
After putting in my name
and creating
an anonymous multimodal biometric authentication for face and voice recognition
I clicked enter
only to find Wikipedia entrees
on common household vermin
and how they can easily be trained
to leave
Now that I know myself
I will start a foundation for others
to find themselves too

Written: 26/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

444. I lay naked in the paddock
I lay naked in the paddock
gazing forward in time
to twenty-five years after I died
and saw no one
who remembers me
which because
it was only a few years
before the end of all life on earth
didn’t really bother me
too much anyway

Written: 26/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

445. In a transformative moment
In a transformative moment
I duplicated
the flight of a butterfly
to embed into my DNA
for my escape
when I awake from myself

Written: 26/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

446. Free-will is the biggest threat

Free-will is the biggest threat
to evolution

Written: 26/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

447. In fear of re-incarnation
Book 4. P.
 46
In fear of re-incarnation  as a human
the weeds in my garden
refused to die

Written: 26/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

448. While waiting for inspiration
While waiting for inspiration
morning came and Went
blue skies highlighting
snow-capped mountains
Animals ran around
Evening sunset
changed sky’s colours
I fell to sleep
waiting for inspiration
Perhaps tomorrow
I will have some

Written: 27/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

449. In a 3-D printed memory

In a 3-D printed memory
of when we first met
I found the line needed
to take you home
then tried to use it again now fifty-years later
But it was just a 3-D printed memory
of when we first met
without you really being there

Written: 27/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

450. I found you on Facebook

Book 4. P. 83

I found you on Facebook
fifty-years after
we ran naked through a tropical sunset
repeatingly loving in the surf
declaring forever we should be lovers
My memories are shattered by
who you are now
your red-neck beliefs
feral looking children
your criminal looking 4th husband
your failed dieting attempts
your 3rd world refugee living conditions
your stupid shared videos of cats and dogs
and your total lack of remembering
who I am and our once long-ago freedom
 to quench our desires

Written: 28/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

451. Left behind

Left behind
discard dreams
all the possibilities
left for someone
else to know
to be anything else
never to know
so excepting
without exception
nothing else
to know

Written: 28/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

452. Dream surfing

Dream surfing
across surfaces
settling upon
the one
of you and me
not being in a dream

Written: 28/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

453. Limited to not being

Book 4. P. 108

Limited to not being
anything else ever
the flower wilted
in despair

Written: 28/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

454. Without you

Without you
dreaming of me
I do not exist

Written: 28/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

455. Your touch

Your touch
so long ago gone
woke me
from a distant dream
of us
laughing at the edge
of infinity
with nowhere
to land

Written: 29/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

456. We met by chance
We met by chance
such a wonderment we thought at the time
Magic made manifest
To meet again
would only disappoint
We are almost not who we were
when we thought we would be the same
in the future
as we were then
The moment came and went
encased in golden memory
To repeat then now
would be to turn the magic to dust
blown away by the dusk

Written: 29/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

457.Always knew

Always knew
even before being born
it would end like this
But what I never knew
is what happens next

Written: 30/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

458. Analysing systems of love

Analysing systems of love
in order to upgrade
to the next version

Written: 30/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

459. After 68-years

After 68-years
living in an imaginary world
I have decided to become a superhero
to save a dying planet
disguised as an imaginary me

Written: 30/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

460. Lost in the ways of love

Book 4. P.  81

Lost in the ways of love
we were a couple
of honey bees
going for gold
on a plastic flower

Written: 30/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

461. Youth is evolution

Youth is evolution
on trainer’s wheels

Written: 30/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

462. I tossed my GPS out the window

I tossed my GPS out the window
after crashing
on a detour
whilst navigating
your life

Written: 30/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

463. No need to change

Book 4. P.92

No need to change
now that freedom has emerged
from hiding
beneath the rubble of despairing
sameness

Written: 30/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

464. Your love was a treasure trove

Your love was a treasure trove
lost at sea
drifting away
from the island of me
and all other
chances of my fulfilment

Written: 30/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

465. Without today’s end

Without today’s end
tomorrow
could never be

Written: 30/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

466. Soft the ache

Soft the ache
of pleasure’s
random departure

Written: 30/June/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

467. Changed times
Changed times
miracle magicians
stretched beliefs
we all fall down
curtain call
no applause
life can so much fun

Written: 01/July/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

468. In fear of letting go

In fear of letting go
I built a barrier of past memories
backed up by
possibilities from left over dreams
discarded on the way
to a new life

Written: 01/July/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

469. New expressions

New expressions
old stories
recycled memories
life continuous

Written: 01/July/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

470. I was learning a lesson in survival

Book 4. P. 51

I was learning a lesson in survival
Passing her in the supermarket aisle
I was taken by colours
The colour of her lipstick
matching come-hither-eyes
and the morning’s aching skies
rising over the alley behind the market
we suddenly found ourselves in
Out of reach of the store’s security camera
Groceries spilt across the broken pavement
Solids and liquids streaming down hill
toward a cresting sea
Naked we left it all behind
and swam toward tomorrow
I lost you on a neighbouring island
to a lost deprived indigenous tribe
releasing then engulfing you with scents of longing
In despair I let myself become rescued
by female Christian-head-hunters sailing
into a misty sweat filled sunset
As we fought the headwinds of change
I learned my lesson of survival
shopping in the local
supermarket on a national holiday

Written: 02/July/2016 Balaklava, South Australia

471. We were watching the finals

We were watching the finals
Triple overtime to win
Scores locked together
Reminding me of our life
Never knowing
whether I would score
one more time
before the end or not

Written: 02/July/2016 Balaklava, South Australia

472. Chasing shadows

Chasing shadows
through a tear in time
circular falling
reaching out
to hold onto anything at all
spinning too quickly
to change this moment’s
trajectory
Until I too become a shadow
no one will chase

Written: 02/July/2016 Balaklava, South Australia

473. Legends passed on

Legends passed on
passing by
building blocks
constructed life
chunks of pleasure
strands of sorrow
modules of others
Mended
Embedded
Generations
tumbling over
one another
to the point of being me
and I never cared
as I sloppily reinvent myself
as an ancestral ghost
saying boo
to me
in my dreams

Written: 04/July/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

474. Nothing said

Nothing said
life in a bubble
never saying
anything more
than selecting phrases
Living quietly
in the toy box
fearing analysis
imaginary playmates
so real
inside this bubble

Written: 04/July/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

475. Missing the moment

Missing the moment
in order to redo a previous
one again
to redo
in this missed moment

Written: 04/July/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

476. I closed my eyes

I closed my eyes
and watch words go by
in random languages
then grabbing several
I assemble them
into geometric shapes
to build a new home
But I am always a foreigner
with no explanation
possible
for when I open my eyes
only to see it all dissolve

Written: 04/July/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

477. Impressed by imperfection

Impressed by imperfection
life evolved to destroy itself

Written: 04/July/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

478. While quietly laying still

While quietly laying still
the rain bounced off of my head
making crashing sounds
onto the ground
below
echoing against time
and other failures
of nature

Written: 04/July/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

479. Mistakenly I was chosen to be
the closing act
to a circus experiment
in the midst
of my cactus garden

Written: 04/July/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

480. By making tomorrow four hours shorter

By making tomorrow four hours shorter
today
I will have
more time with you

Written: 05/July/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

481. Rolling was a direction

Rolling was a direction
long before the hill
became an obstacle
After
Everything went so fast
the path forward
so obvious
the path back impossible
stopping was never an option
A million years from now
still I will be rolling
long after there will be anyone
left to testify

Written: 05/July/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

482. Tomorrow your birthday

Tomorrow your birthday
I may give it a miss
sleep through the day
dream of what should have been
so as not to be there
on the day of your birth
in hopes of not thinking
of when you left
but only of when were here

Written: 05/July/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

483. So much done

So much done
celebrations in place
now here
journey’s start forgotten
to do it again
never
ending at the proper time and place
all consuming
conclusion’s joy

Written: 06/July/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

484. Unexpected

Unexpected
flying past moment
observing
then the change
gradual at first
then engulfing
never same again

Written: 06/July/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

485. So quick the change

Book 4. P. 100

So quick the change
I did not realize
until after
I was no longer me

Written: 06/July/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

486. Clear skies

Clear skies
open moments
passing thoughts
filling empty
collisions of matter
manifesting as new experiences
for evolution’s new change
you and I laughing in the rain
two out of sync particles
forgotten
and left alongside
the highway
eroding
rusting
beneath clear skies

Written: 08/July/16 Dukes Highway, Victoria

487. Too short our time together
Too short
too breaking
as a memory
that has lived longer
than you did

Written: 08/July/16 Dukes Highway, Victoria

488. Frequently in doubt

Frequently in doubt
often in fear of failure
comforted with being ignored
dreading change
never wishing to be picked
the rose bush
concentrated on sharper thorns
rather than blossoming
like other convicts did

Written: 08/July/16 Dukes Highway, Victoria

489. Frequently freedom flies

Frequently freedom flies
past what is possible
with no chance
to hold its slipperiness
while time dwindles
to a standstill
imprisoned at last
with me finally able to stop
and breathe

Written: 09/July/16 Mt. Franklin Reserve, Victoria

490. I finally arrived at that magical place

Book 4. P. 94

I finally arrived at that magical place
with a mind
empty of thought

Written: 09/July/16 Mt. Franklin Reserve, Victoria

491. Unwanted sounds

Book 4 P. 85

Unwanted sounds
Harmony of door open
close
open close
mingled with northern wind’s chants
in a time of wanted silence

Written: 10/July/16 Mt. Franklin Reserve, Victoria

492. Desire soaked by the rain

Book 4. P. 87
Desire soaked by the rain
though passion’s fire
burns unquenched

Written: 10/July/16 Mt. Franklin Reserve, Photo: Daylesford Train Station, Victoria

493. I was attempting to get warm
I was attempting to get warm
avoiding snow covered memories
Trying to conjure up melting thoughts
Visions of us as naked shadows
in a tropical dream
Wind and hail grasping at me
I cannot run
The forest is too haunted by failed lovers
gone before
I shiver awake
Coldness breaks silence
I scream
Frozen words
crash to the ground
There is no alternative
but to burn in coldness for eternity

Written: 10/July/16 Mt. Franklin Reserve, Victoria

494. While waiting for scribbled thoughts

Book 4. P. 90

While waiting for scribbled thoughts to make sense
of my feelings for you
I grew old
You looked
the other way
Tomorrow became lost
When the train left the station
no one saw me
to wave a wand over my scribbled thoughts
so too
I could understand them
As if magically life could possibly
make sense at the end of it

Written: 11/July/2016 Williamstown (Melbourne) Australia

495. In an appreciable moment

In an appreciable moment
waves of humanity
spread out across the planet
destroying all
leaving a barren planet
for distant alien incarnating vegetation
to begin a new cycle
of evolution
with you and me
being the first stalks of life

Written: 11/July2016 Williamstown (Melbourne) Australia

496. First page left blank
First page left blank
empty of purpose
before traffic, building
sky, eternity, forgetfulness
after creations failure
all pages to follow
transcriptions of what was
rather than
what should have been
soon back to that blank first page
with everything else
promptly erased

Written: 12/July2016 Williamstown (Melbourne) Australia

497. Dead people
Dead people
never get to see us alive
racing through life
to be dead people
unable to see others racing
through life too

Written: 12/July2016 Williamstown (Melbourne) Australia

498. Wind swept memories

Book 4. P.126

Wind swept memories
left me blank

Written: 12/July/2016 Williamstown (Melbourne) Australia

499. The individual creative artist genius

Book 4. P. 14

The individual creative artist genius
no longer looked upon in awe
as the rise of connectivity
with our group creative artist genus
consciousness
churning out robotic social media
blandness
now at the end of this
once creative human cycle

Written: 13/July/2016 Williamstown (Melbourne) Australia

500. Love’s quiet whisper
Love’s quiet whisper
cast out upon
a final moonless breeze
before we shut our hearing
to avoid an echo
destined to direct attention
away from
what could have been
if only we had learned to sigh
rather than scream
in the evening breeze

Written: 13/July/2016 Williamstown (Melbourne) Australia

501. In a haphazard dream

Book 4. P. 74

In a haphazard dream
I awoke in a foreign state
of beingness
you lying next to me

Written: 14/July/2016 Williamstown (Melbourne) Australia

502. I lost you on the horizon

Book 4. P. 53

I lost you on the horizon
of a perpendicular dream

Written: 14/July/2016 Williamstown (Melbourne) Australia

503. I waited outside for you at the bus stop

Book 4. P. 13

I waited outside for you at the bus stop
outside this dirty coal mining town
Storm clouds gathered
Memories scattered
In the drooling distance
you were dancing with
an imaginary youthful you
When the bus came
I died
Never knowing if you were real
If you were on the bus
or whether I wrote this or not

Written: 14/July/2016 Burnt Bridge Reserve, Lake Tyers, Victoria, Australia

504. Silence echoes through this rainforest

Book 5. P. 136

Silence echoes through this rainforest
where even the memory of your breath
no longer whispers
Replaced by newly
fallen leaves
racing toward another dawn
without you and me on them
loving

Written: 14/July/2016 Burnt Bridge Reserve, Lake Tyers, Victoria, Australia

505. As a vegetarian cannibal

As a vegetarian cannibal
having you for my evening meal
meant
having you for breakfast again
too

Written: 15/July/2016 Candelo, NSW, Australia

506. So environmentally correct
So environmentally correct
recycled love
making the earth
warmer for all us

Written: 15/July/2016 Candelo, NSW, Australia

507. According to popular conventional conspiracy

According to popular conventional conspiracy
theory
Your evaporating love for me
is the source
of my decay

Written: 15/July/2016 Candelo, NSW, Australia

508. While counting the stars in the sky

While counting the stars in the sky
I was interrupted
by my lack of a belief
system
to believe they existed

Written: 15/July/2016 Candelo, NSW, Australia

509. Forever frequently frightened

Forever frequently frightened
I sought condolence
in a passing pay package
or your hourly love
using an expired credit card
Now in debt and on the run
I hide beneath the bridge
looking for an escape
from desire’s hold on me
knowing I never will

Written: 15/July/2016 Candelo, NSW, Australia

510. “All my hopes, dreams, wishes, never to eventuate”

Book 4. P. 95

“All my hopes, dreams, wishes, never to eventuate”
cried the fly as she met her end
@ the centre of horizontal
& vertical in the web
of my digital fly zapper
“Never to my calf”
the cow being herded into a truck
for the slaughterhouse
“will I be known”
she moaned
“Will my family miss me”
the solider wrote in a final scribble
never knowing that his letter
would be obviated with the town’s destruction
“What a fucked up planet”
god exhaled
before extinguishing the solar system

Written: 16/July/2016 Princess Highway, NSW, Australia

511. Thrilled by differences

Thrilled by differences
the corn and the apple
left the garden for a time of passion
@ a junction of the river and tomorrow
With no way to be judged
they were left free to engulf
an engaging moment
and dance differences away
in a peculiar twist
that had no reason beyond their existence

Written: 16/July/2016 Berry Showgrounds Camping Area, NSW, Australia

512. The government’s stimulus independence package

Book 4. P. 131

The government’s stimulus independence package
woke desires on July four
brought me to your door
passion unwrapped on the kitchen floor
Morning cried out for more
With your recycled love I am no longer poor
thanks to the government’s stimulus package

Written: 17/July/2016 Berry Showgrounds Camping Area, NSW, Australia

513. On the curved road of love

Book. 4 P. 134

On the curved road of love
blended memories folded distances
into a quiet moment
where I escaped my crowded self
and let go into
this peaceful space
I now call my life

Written: 17/July/2016 Berry Showgrounds Camping Area, NSW, Australia

514. As luck would have it

Book 4. P. 88

As luck would have it
life waited for me
while I slept
so I could replace dreams
with this yet to be revealed
adventuresome day

Written: 17/July/2016 Berry Showgrounds Camping Area, NSW, Australia

515. The note in the fortune cookie

The note in the fortune cookie
proclaimed this to be
my day of luck
so I started my campfire
with the lit piece of wisdom
where we unwrapped ourselves
as one
in the warmth of this
my lucky day

Written: 17/July/2016 Berry Showgrounds Camping Area, NSW, Australia

516. Deep in the tangled

Deep in the tangled
scattered fragmented
universe of my twisted thoughts
I was able to assemble something
resembling a picture
of what life could have been
if not of me
where peacefulness mingled with spicy love
and random saneness would be my adventures
rather than the confused state
I live in at the end of this broken alley
However the picture shattered
leaving me the way I always have been
Lost looking for you

Written: 17/July/2016 Berry Showgrounds Camping Area, NSW, Australia

517. Last exit on the freeway of your love

Last exit on the freeway of your love
lost way
no return
no waiting
no you
tonight
looking for a new freeway

Written: 17/July/2016 Richmond Club Camping Ground, NSW, Australia

518. I lived my life in a titled world

I lived my life in a titled world
bent axis broken planet
out of alignment
spinning aimlessly
through the cosmos
as if we really mattered

Written: 17/July/2016 Richmond Club Camping Ground, NSW, Australia

519. Obsessed by the flicker

Obsessed by the flicker
hope
clung on
while chance ran amuck
leaving perhaps
or was it maybe
to change
the direction
in which
we were headed

Written: 17/July/2016 Richmond Club Camping Ground, NSW, Australia

520. Such a trendy experience

Such a trendy experience
Follow someone
that is not me
in hopes others than me
will recognize
how trendy they are

Written: 18/July/2016 Richmond Club Camping Ground, NSW, Australia

521. In the darkened whisper

In the darkened whisper
of your vanishing smile
I saw the love
I could have had
if I had not been me

Written: 18/July/2016 Richmond Club Camping Ground, NSW, Australia

522.Writing non-stop

Book 5. P. 127

Writing non-stop through the night
stopping only
for an adjective
I had dropped
and broken
alongside a noun of a non-descript fashion
crushing it
with a mistake

Written: 18/July/2016 Richmond Club Camping Ground, NSW, Australia

523. I wanted to be like you

I wanted to be like you
public admiration
massive Twitter followers
so many wanting you
awards, prizes, money, magazine covers
first class travel
lovers waiting
Life passing me by
wanting to be you
until I read this morning
in the comics
that you had died from
an overdose of life too fine
Now I no longer want to be you
But I do not know how to be me
as I spent most of my life
wanting to be you

Written: 18/July/2016 Richmond Club Camping Ground, NSW, Australia

524. In a complicated moment

In a complicated moment
I melted
surround by high quality chocolate
and rotting strawberries
Now no one
will listen to me
or any of my simple ideas
in this sophisticated world
beyond my understanding

Written: 18/July/2016 Richmond Club Camping Ground, NSW, Australia

525. My analysis therapist

My analysis therapist
told me to talk
to my vegetables
after bathing
dressing and preparing
before eating them
in order to destress them
and get them to believe
that they are more significant
than the organic vegetables
at the metaphysical food co-op
that mimic superiority
but are in actual fact
made of plastic, paper, recycled holistic resign
to appear perfect

Written: 18/July/2016 Richmond Club Camping Ground, NSW, Australia

526. As a critic of the natural progression

As a critic of the natural progression
of superior vs. bullshit
I was ex[pected to cast my vote
in favour of what
would come next
then the rain fell
evolution was washed away
and I drowned
in the mundane
with no one to share
my critiqued awareness
with

Written: 18/July/2016 Richmond Club Camping Ground, NSW, Australia

527. I was hungry

I was hungry
with the culture of greed
that left others in debt
and me with nothing
as I ended with more

Written: 18/July/2016 Richmond Club Camping Ground, NSW, Australia

528. In a self-explanatory moment

In a self-explanatory moment
I became silent
and the parade went on
without me

Written: 18/July/2016 Richmond Club Camping Ground, NSW, Australia

529. In a delusional epic of want

In a delusional epic of want
questions were raised
expectations lowered
jokes exchanged
and reality avoided
creating a pause
during love making
in the back of the shed
early morning of the queen’s birthday

Written: 19/July/2016 Ibis Hotel, Olympic Park, Sydney, Australia

530. You lost hope I lost you

You lost hope I lost you
13 years ago
your life ended
so did mine
but the sun still rises
people move on
life multiples
but not in my imprisoned mind

Written: 19/July/2016 Ibis Hotel, Olympic Park, Sydney, Australia

531. In a pause

In a pause
remarkable in its sequence
of augmented reality
I grasped a fleeting taste of your love
foreign taste
awakening senses
not felt since
Neanderthal spiritualists
sacrificed thoughts of original love

Written: 19/July/2016 Ibis Hotel, Olympic Park, Sydney, Australia

532. These years passing by

These years passing by
just patches
particles
mending together
the time I last saw you
with the times
I no longer will
remember who you were before the pain
of losing you disappears

Written: 19/July/2016 Ibis Hotel, Olympic Park, Sydney, Australia

533. Camouflaged loss

Camouflaged loss
disguising what I feel
with sacraments
at a surrendered alter
with a purging flame
for forgetting
all I wanted
replacing then with now
in the mistaken fantasy
I would forget

Written: 19/July/2016 Ibis Hotel, Olympic Park, Sydney, Australia

534. Blinded by a smothering loss
like love to me
the rose bush
lay uprooted
along the sidewalk
being trampled
by all
who too were blind

Written: 19/July/2016 Ibis Hotel, Olympic Park, Sydney, Australia

535. I splattered thoughts of you

Book 4. P. 98

I splattered thoughts of you against patches of emptiness
hoping for enhanced fulfilments
in ancient discoveries
revealing our once
happy togetherness

Written: 20/July/2016 Ibis Hotel, Olympic Park, Sydney, Australia
Photo: 23/July/2016 Plushs Bend, Renmark, South Australia

536. Navigating foggy thoughts

Book 4. P. 48

Navigating foggy thoughts
of your fading memories
on this endless road
to where we will
never meet
at its end

Written: 20/July/2016 Hume Highway, New South Wales, Australia

537. In this futile race
through life
foreign landscapes
devoured all directions
leaving me
wasted alone
empty highways
to delusional destinations
where ex-lovers taunted
shadows of my past desires
in a race
with no finish lines

Written: 20/July/2016 Hume Highway, New South Wales, Australia

538. I lost your love on the altar of hope gone wrong
I lost your love on the altar of hope gone wrong
you were humming the words of a forgotten song
in the vestibule I waited as my desire covered the floor
rain outside flooded in beneath the hollowed door
as the tower bell rang in tune with your ravaged cries
the memories short and to the point dies

   CONTINUE MAKE MORE BETTER

Written: 20/July/2016 Hume Highway, New South Wales, Australia

539. Annoyed by all that goes wrong

Book 5. P. 146

Annoyed by all that goes wrong
I fastened balloons to my wings
and floated away
letting my problems fall to the ground
and land on others
in their crushing way

20/07/2016 Barbour Park, Gunning, NSW, Australia

540. Frightened about life alone

Frightened about life alone
the orchard welcomed and loved the weeds
until they grew stronger and squeezed life from her
so at the end when she wilted
losing her flower
she died alone
too

20/07/2016 Barbour Park, Gunning, NSW, Australia

541. “Relief”
After falling in love with a cartoon character
selling podiatry insurance
on the late night mystery channel
I sold the rights to my life
to a transient used-car minister
and became a cartoon too
in hopes of wooing the object
of my affections
only to discover
my lovely cartoon character
was now a prostitute in the cloud
which shattered my moral obligations
and left me
to abuse myself
in a secret ritual
beyond the grasp
of social media correctness

20/07/2016 Barbour Park, Gunning, NSW, Australia

542. Celtic survival music
echoed through the flooded valley
of lost love drowning
eroding and soaking my novel I was writing
I lost the plot somewhere between
the first and second sentence
of the first page
during the final memory of you
before the interruption
to what should have been
my greatest creative spillage
me in you

21/07/2016 Hume Highway, NSW, Australia

543. While laughing in the moment
driving on the freeway
I avoided the future
as any guru of significance
would subscribe
and crashed off of a cliff
around the curve
of a future moment
I had avoided
living in the moment

21/07/2016 Hume Highway, NSW, Australia

544. Love is a game
best to lose
so as to go again
and many times more
How good is that

21/07/2016 Hume Highway, NSW, Australia

545. Within my virtual sacrifice
fog settled
moving quickly down the slopes
I watched her spreading across a cloudless space
data filled my senses
I tried remotely to satisfy her
with a virus I had retrieved
from a foreign rebel site
I have always been a bit awkward
with data-sex
often leaning toward too many 1’s
in my code
that makes me vulnerable
to 0’s desires
so I am leaving the virtual world of my birth
to have a human night with my wife

21/07/2016 Hume Highway, NSW, Australia

546. I started selling love insurance
I started selling love insurance
out of the back of my ute
“if he leave you I will replace him
almost free of charge”
was my slogan
and after five days in the rain
with no sales
I bought my own love insurance
replacing myself with me
making me satisfied ever since

21/07/2016 Hume Highway, NSW, Australia

547. Redirected fantasy

Redirected fantasy
rolling through your city
trapped in your smile
if only you would have the same fantasy
I could breathe again

21/07/2016 Narrandera Showgrounds, NSW, Australia

548. In the distance

In the distance
a flowing river
reflects on imaginary
dreams up close

21/07/2016 Narrandera Showgrounds, NSW, Australia

549. I won a night with her

Book 4. P. 22

I won a night with her
at the church game-night raffle
Everything was going well
until in the middle of an orgasm
she yelled “thankyou Jesus”
I told her my name was Saint Terrell
she opened her eyes
screamed and ran out of the vestibule
leaving me with just a crumpled
raffle ticket and partial fulfilment

22/07/2016 Sturt Highway, NSW, Australia

550. Your body was an aircraft carrier
Your body was an aircraft carrier
and I was a jet fighter
landing and taking off
in stormy seas
in a war
I was never destined to win

22/07/2016 Sturt Highway, NSW, Australia

551. Nature’s Evolution

Nature’s Evolution
has created cures
for everything
except love

22/07/2016 Sturt Highway, NSW, Australia

552. Abolished demolished

Abolished demolished
washed away
tattooed love
left naked
beneath promises
of a sustainable time

22/07/2016 Sturt Highway, NSW, Australia

553. Thrilled by the obscurity

Thrilled by the obscurity
of your love
pretendable divine design
at best
I slipped away
peacefully at first
restlessly later
finally invisible
secretly lost
wounded by thoughts
I should never have had

22/07/2016 Sturt Highway, NSW, Australia

554. An untamed wind

An untamed wind
screamed my name
through a biblical valley scene
easily sacrificing me
to a forgone conclusion

22/07/2016 Sturt Highway, NSW, Australia

555. Maddening in its eloquence

Maddening in its eloquence
though serene in its longing
and worthy of a chantable moment
carried by chastised wind

22/07/2016 Sturt Highway, NSW, Australia

556. 87% of my life

87% of my life
has passed me by
leaving barely enough
time to reminisce
all that I have experience before
having 13% left

22/07/2016 Sturt Highway, NSW, Australia

557. Blown gasket

Blown gasket
spilt love
frosted highway
How will I explain
no more of me left
when I awake
from this dream

22/07/2016 Sturt Highway, NSW, Australia

558. In an ordinary dream

In an ordinary dream
n
ow became forever
t
his magical moment
f
orever

23/7/16  Plushs Bend, South Australia

559. To inhale ubiquitous nature’s surroundings
To inhale ubiquitous nature’s surroundings
as it bursts my yet to surrender
halcyon days of soon past
brings rest to my weary future

23/7/16  Plushs Bend, South Australia

560. In a symphonic orgasm

Book 5. P. 62
In a symphonic orgasm
the trees, river, swamps, birds,
became evening’s climax

23/7/16  Plushs Bend, South Australia

561. While meditating on this moment
While meditating on this moment
I fell to sleep
and dreamed
never anything was there

23/7/16  Plushs Bend, South Australia

562. Unable to rest easily

Book 4. P. 128
Unable to rest easily
the river playfully
swept away the town
and all the people
Now the town
will rest peacefully
with no one left

23/7/16  Plushs Bend, South Australia

563. In a random whispered secret
In a random whispered secret
amongst these trees
I learned I was alone
surrounded by life
whereas in town
I was alone
surrounded by death

23/7/16  Plushs Bend, South Australia

564. Remembering quiet
Remembering quiet
back before I became lost
before wanting so much
pre-possession obsession
Times without noise
Peace before confusion
Just the river and me
Easy to forget
Long past fused with now
The middle fifty years
Cut out
From 19 to sixty-nine years
Gone
Without reflection
No mirror tricks
From then to now
Such freedom
Again

23/7/16  Plushs Bend, South Australia

565. Listening to a foreign radio station

Listening to a foreign radio station
not understanding
what is being said
what is being song
what is being implied
Were they discussing
our love
our past
our future
should we create our own interpretation
or go foreign too
not understand our love

23/7/16  Plushs Bend, South Australia

566. ‘PLOT THICKENED’
‘PLOT THICKENED’
My story had no end, beginning, middle
no tension, crisis, redemption, resolution, believability
Without you
I have no story

23/7/16  Plushs Bend, South Australia

567. In a ripped moment
In a ripped moment
of a broken river reflection
I found a space
between clouds
to imagine a smoother
life for me

23/7/16  Plushs Bend, South Australia

568. While observing thoughts
While observing thoughts
rattling around my mind
I saw none
as picturesque as when dawn’s light
refractre4d in kaleidoscope fashion
off of your nakedness
so wide awake
in my dream

23/7/16  Plushs Bend, South Australia

569. After being off on holiday

After being off on holiday
for so long
the sun and moon
went back to their old routine
of rising and setting
with the earth doing its same old axial tilt trip
around and over and around
Only I complained
that it was time for a change
but nothing listened
so too I went back to the mundane and boring
me once again

24/07/16 147 Perseverance Road, South Australia

570. In a dwindling perspective

In a dwindling perspective
I concluded that any conspiracy theory
involving me was unattainable
and no doubt
self-inflected

24/07/16 147 Perseverance Road, South Australia

571. Surprising in its implication

Surprising in its implication
I took a shortcut
to my sixty-ninth birthday
with no one watching
to see if I cheated
getting to this age so fast
primarily by skipping over a few decades
and getting old so quickly

572. During a memory leakage

During a memory leakage
moment
I hugged a telephone poll
thinking it was you
and hearing so many unsbustantied messages
I was unable to filter
which call was you
but now with my memory in tack once again
I can listen

25/07/16 147 Perseverance Road, South Australia

573. What a bummer

What a bummer
I became famous
ten-minutes after I died

25/07/16 147 Perseverance Road, South Australia

574. In a case of mistaken identity
In a case of mistaken identity
my shadow danced the night away
in the corn field
with the farmer’s cow
leaving me without explanation
as to why I think I am
who I imagine I am
when the moon is full
and I am standing naked
in the paddock
at harvest time

25/07/16 147 Perseverance Road, South Australia

575. When I once lived in the flower garden
When I once lived in the flower garden
amongst the flowers
though they perceived me as a weed
I felt almost elegant
when passing heroes
proclaimed the beauty of the flower garden
I so proudly was a member of
and the rain touched me
the same as the others
and the sun shined on me
everything between the flowers
and me was quite the same
until weed killer took my life

26/07/16 147 Perseverance Road, South Australia

576. In a disappointed moment
In a disappointed moment
time stopped

26/07/16 147 Perseverance Road, South Australia

577. In a moment of lost intent
In a moment of lost intent
I packed my bags
to move to another planet
then forgot how to get there
HERE AGAIN

27/07/16 147 Perseverance Road, South Australia

578. Got to a position
where I no longer wanted to do
what I do best anymore
so don’t expect to see
the comic superhero
579. I once was
Begging at your door

27/07/16 147 Perseverance Road, South Australia

580. The last chance I had to be successful
ended twelve-minutes
before I was born

27/07/16 147 Perseverance Road, South Australia

581. The odds of being me is one in seven-plus billion
WOW what a lucky thingy

27/07/16 147 Perseverance Road, South Australia

582. In great anticipation
god waited for humanity to wake up
then finely giving up
when no one did

27/07/16 147 Perseverance Road, South Australia

583. I went beyond all expectation

Book 4. P. 15
I went beyond all expectation
only to find myself over the edge
past rational thought
beyond earthly logic
Once again lost in space

28/07/16 147 Perseverance Road, South Australia

584. In all the excitement of being me again
Book 4. P.12
In all the excitement of being me again
I forgot who I was
so I looked myself up
on the internet
now I don’t want to be
him

28/07/16 147 Perseverance Road, South Australia

585. One of life’s great pleasures
One of life’s great pleasures
is floating on a banana leaf
in the midst of a billabong
listening to kookaburras
singing the songs of Solomon
on a full moon
in Taurus night

28/07/16 147 Perseverance Road, South Australia

586. Reflective love

Reflective love
saw me glow
in your eyes

28/07/16 147 Perseverance Road, South Australia

587. I watched the moment

Book 4. P. 137

I watched this moment
cascade through the valley
and crash to a broken pavement
in a shattering performance
of love transcended

28/07/16 - Perseverance Road, South Australia

588. While watching a waiting moment

While watching a waiting moment
to arrive
a wandering movement
lost in wonderment
changed direction
leaving us found
at the end and no one noticed

29/07/16 147 Perseverance Road, South Australia

589. An evening’s taste of success

An evening’s taste of success
you in the morning

29/07/16 147 Perseverance Road, South Australia

590. The bubble I live in is available

The bubble I live in is available
for all other bubble dwellers
to in habit
as long as their distractions
do not infringe on my abstrations
and belief of no one else exist

29/07/16 147 Perseverance Road, South Australia

591. Once settled with the new rountine

Once settled with the new rountine
morning rose and shown
and we learned to love then as well

29/07/16 147 Perseverance Road, South Australia

592. It is not the short time we spent together

It is not the short time we spent together
that keeps me forward bound
but the magical possible
in seeing what could have been
if all these years after had contained you
in them too

29/07/16 147 Perseverance Road, South Australia

593. With no time left love transported

With no time left love transported
us to a space without gravity
giving us freedom to disappear
together

29/07/16 147 Perseverance Road, South Australia

594. I downloaded one of those ads on Facebook

I downloaded one of those ads on Facebook
that claimed
‘the shocking truth about God’
and after listening for twenty minutes
how extensive research
into thousands of years of history and DNA samplings
as well as direct communications
the shocking truth could now be revealed
for only $9.95 for the e-book version
So I submitted my $9.95
got the e-book on several of my devices
and with great excitement opened the file
which had only one line
‘I don’t exist’
Unable to get a refund
I am now passing this incredible secret
on to you

30/07/16 147 Perseverance Road, South Australia

595. All went to how we did not plan

All went to how we did not plan
now looking in new directions
the joke is on me
my plan was flawed
going through life
lost again

30/07/16 147 Perseverance Road, South Australia

596. All through time

All through time
there has barely been enough space
to celebrate
love enough
through we give it a try
often
which makes
space-filling
rewarding
when I am with you

30/07/16 147 Perseverance Road, South Australia

597. I tripped over my words ad, South Australia

I tripped over my words
and fell into feelings
floating away
blissfully with nothing left
to say

31/07/16 147 Perseverance Road, South Australia

598. Too long the fruit on the trees

Too long the fruit on the trees
left to weather, birds, disintegration
forgottenness
So much like love forgotten
now times past
too late
to taste
to remember
and live on what could have been
a lingering taste
devoured by seasons gone

31/07/16 147 Perseverance Road, South Australia

599. In a most un-creative plagiarizing moment

Book 4. P. 42

In a most un-creative plagiarizing moment
evening sky smeared the same colours
across her face
as a previous dusk-time painting

31/07/16 147 Perseverance Road, South Australia

600. In a losing battle

In a losing battle
victory hid behind
tomorrow
so a winning future
would tell the tale
of how an arrogant past
tried to influence
what would come next
then failed

31/07/16 147 Perseverance Road, South Australia

601. Spent love

Book 4. P. 29

Spent love
need to borrow
for more

31/07/16 147 Perseverance Road, South Australia

602. too short the thought

Book 5. P. 17

too short the thought

for a novel idea

31/07/16 147 Perseverance Road, South Australia

603. Today went by so fast

Today went by so fast
I borrowed from tomorrow
and re-did some of yesterday
now to start over again
at the future’s expense

31/07/16 147 Perseverance Road, South Australia

604. In a desperate challenge

In a desperate challenge
to change
to reinvent
to transcend
change scents
find peace
the volcano erupted
in lava
and yesterday’s
karma

31/07/16 147 Perseverance Road, South Australia

605. “to quiet the summer”

“to quiet the summer”
screamed the stormy approaching winter
as wind, rain, hail
swept through the contentious valley
destroying evolution’s
peaceful unplanned finale

31/07/16 147 Perseverance Road, South Australia

606. You could have heard my voice

You could have heard my voice
in your shadow
enhancing your movement toward me
or as fate would whisper
drawing you here
either way
the same path we are running upon
no one else is
sole flyers in this dream together

31/07/16 147 Perseverance Road, South Australia

607. So easy to dream

So easy to dream
now that the mystery of life
has been explained

31/07/16 147 Perseverance Road, South Australia

608. 3-D printers can make so much

3-D printers can make so much
but not love
or any other
such passing fantasies

31/07/16 147 Perseverance Road, South Australia

609. I lost my compass on the path of love

I lost my compass on the path of love
now not knowing
if I am at the western setting phase
or the easier eastern starting one

31/07/16 147 Perseverance Road, South Australia

610. In a hastily conceived feeling

In a hastily conceived feeling
I found the thought
I was looking forward
laying hungry and cold
along the path
that I so long ago abandoned
And now must proceed upon
for a self-healing shadow
that I can call my own
here at the end of a hastily conceived feeling

31/07/16  Perseverance Road, South Australia

611. We started slow

Book 4. P. 76

We started slow
we ended slow
life between
done too fast

01/08/16  Perseverance Road, South Australia

612. So much better

So much better
miracles without meaning
spheres of meanings
your touch
all that matters

01/08/16  Perseverance Road, South Australia

613. Living life in a trance

Living life in a trance
avoiding the lies
of so many average
pretenders to knowledge
glad to be so free
in a trance of you

01/08/16  Perseverance Road, South Australia

614. Captured freedom bottled and sold

Captured freedom bottled and sold
to orphans of love
wings included
I bought a few
dropped them
and as the bottle broke
on the final path to hope
freedom flew off
leaving me shackled
to past dreams
unresolved
as all orphan’s hopes
so often are

01/08/16  Perseverance Road, South Australia

615. In an ill-conceived fantasy

In an ill-conceived fantasy
we walked through flashes
becoming purified
in the rain
and in a most silly motion
continued together after our cremation
in a sphere
transported though revealing
to a future life
wrapped in peace
finally

01/08/16  Perseverance Road, South Australia

616. The banging, crashing, pounding

The banging, crashing, pounding
noise you heard
in your dreams
late last night
was simply me
trying to enter
your dream too

02/08/16  Perseverance Road, South Australia

617. In a most delicious moment

Book 4. P. 26

In a most delicious moment
the apple and banana
ran off to join the circus
and to the entertainment of all
did a
Pas De Valse
across the horizon
in front of a hungry sunset
together

02/08/16  Perseverance Road, South Australia

618. In a most social moment

In a most social moment
Mars Jupiter Saturn
hummed a ballet about movement through love
not long before a black hole
devoured them

03/08/16  Perseverance Road, South Australia

619. Constructed love

Constructed love
assembled with pieces missing
the laws of diminishing emotional
satisfaction explained
and the reason why
I have pieces missing myself

03/08/16  Perseverance Road, South Australia

620. The future never looked so bright

The future never looked so bright
as when the Big Bang
was but a fraction of a fraction old
ever since
problems have grown
until we got to today
when there is no light left for a bright no future

03/08/16  Perseverance Road, South Australia

621. We took to the streets protesting the loss of love

We took to the streets protesting the loss of love
the shackling of desire
sacrificing of innocence
released freedom flying free
and the future of loneliness incarnate
replacing our once shared touch

04/08/16  Perseverance Road, South Australia

622. My desires captured
My desires captured
in your eyes reflections
tonight unwound

04/08/16  Perseverance Road, South Australia

623. I memorised the hills and valleys
I memorised the hills and valleys
of your body
so that if ever
I became lost
I could find my way home

04/08/16  Perseverance Road, South Australia

624. I smiled evening sky smiled back

I smiled
evening sky
smiled back
now I know
what love is

05/08/16  Perseverance Road, South Australia

625. Quick capture the sun set

Quick capture the sun set
before night steals
it away

05/08/16  Perseverance Road, South Australia

626. While living in la la land

While living in la la land
I made plans for the rest of my life
in a most down-to-earth fashion
then sold them to a passing fairy
I was outside of my spaceship window

05/08/16  Perseverance Road, South Australia

627. Humans are a result of creation

Humans are a result of creation
going on strike
and letting evolution
go stupid

05/08/16  Perseverance Road, South Australia

628. Complications of the past made construction of today

Complications of the past made construction of today
with wobbly foundation
my life falling quickly
into a sink hole
hopefully it will pass through the earth
and on to the other side
I can emerge from the rubble of my life
and be my neighbour’s cat
and go viral on Facebook too

06/08/16  Perseverance Road, South Australia

629. While putting my life on pause

While putting my life on pause
the moment quickly passed by
the moment with so much potential
so much ‘could-have-been’
so possibly nothing at all
while life was on pause
I saved myself the bother of choices
I would now be confused with
if I had not put my life on pause

06/08/16  Perseverance Road, South Australia

630. Love sailed in a century ago

Book 4. P. 121

Love sailed in a century ago
now returning
to no one to remember

06/08/16  Perseverance Road, South Australia

631. While standing still the world sped by

While standing still the world sped by
now no one left
to talk to
no one to fall over
not a single person
to show this text to

06/08/16  Perseverance Road, South Australia

632. Life is just a temporary pause

Book 4. P. 133

Life is just a temporary panic pause
along the way
to we know
not where

06/08/16  Perseverance Road, South Australia

633. While beating my own non-Olympic record

While beating my own non-Olympic record
for getting out of bed this morning
I was disqualified before awakening

The esoteric and difficult to detect dreaming of you drug
slipping out from my consciousness
putting me ahead then behind
all else

06/08/16  Perseverance Road, South Australia

634. In a spherical theatrical rotation

Book 4 P. 113

In a spherical theatrical rotation
of dawn’s dwindling presence
I followed a trail
easy to see
though difficult to fathom
to a final moment with you

07/08/16  Perseverance Road, South Australia

635. So similar to today was to a day past spent

So similar to today was to a day past spent
felt the same
like a day when we were lovers walking
in the park
no thoughts of a future
no thoughts really at all
I drifted today
beyond where I should have
through a closing
door
but I was forced back
to here now
so long into the future
from that moment so long ago

08/08/16  Perseverance Road, South Australia

636. What was a barrier between yesterday and today

What was a barrier between yesterday and today
now a link, a bridge, a tunnel
such an easy connection
so that today
and yesterday are one
Now I am going to join tomorrow too

08/08/16  Perseverance Road, South Australia

637. While lining up dreams

While lining up dreams
marching them to the edge
several slipped away
hiding behind
desperate beliefs
for a surprise visit
knowing I never count(?)
different between reality and wandering thoughts

09/08/16  Perseverance Road, South Australia

638. As if I would not count the years passed by

As if I would not count the years passed by
leaving me behind
and my dreams even further

10/08/16  Perseverance Road, South Australia

639. During a borrowed sequence of past memories

During a borrowed sequence of past memories
I found the one of you and me
sweeping dust off of visions of our
united freedom
vanishing into a make believe sunset
that constantly repeated
until the earth itself ended

10/08/16  Perseverance Road, South Australia

640. As if time were producible

As if time were producible
manufacturable
a chemical formula
mathematical equation
incubated in test tubes
purchasable on the stock market
borrowable   stealable tradable
I attempted to get some extra
though no matter
what method I conjured
no more time could I get
Now that I have run out of it
I have no more time to finish this

11/08/16  Perseverance Road, South Australia

641. I put a box out to catch all the thoughts

I put a box out to catch all the thoughts
I never had
now I know there was a crack in my box
as it is empty
and I am still trying to collect
thoughts I never had

11/08/16  Perseverance Road, South Australia

642. Love became so intoxicating

Love became so intoxicating
images of today
blurred into passions without merit
leaving me to dissolve
at the start of this day

12/08/16  Perseverance Road, South Australia

643. Love with you

Book 4. P. 5

Love with you
so many windows
to view life through

12/08/16  Perseverance Road, South Australia

644. Thrilled by the obscurity of your touch

Thrilled by the obscurity of your touch
I dove into the sea of unconsciousness
in a frenzied attempt to feel emotions
I had seen displayed in a child’s Saturday morning
cartoon propaganda program
only to be rewarded
by ads of rescued incompetence
of how to download the touch app
onto my life’s integration with the lack of
your touch

13/08/16  Perseverance Road, South Australia

645. Frequently lost on the horizon

Frequently lost on the horizon
I watched love roll in
roll out
rise
set
regurgitate
If only I could extend this lifetime
to see a future horizon
I would know this had been a groovy moment
in a dwindling history
of a small planet’s erectile excursion
that I got to ride through a dissolving phase
of a pissing passing galaxy
wandering an empty uninterested universe
too far from its virginity to care anymore

13/08/16  Perseverance Road, South Australia

646. What is most enjoyable about the muddled confusion

What is most enjoyable about the muddled confusion
I exist in
is the ever changing interpretation
of what the moment’s representation is presenting
and whether I should believe in it
and laugh too

13/08/16  Perseverance Road, South Australia

647.Feeling lucky to have lived so long

xxx

Feeling lucky to have lived so long
the fly flew quickly into the fly zapper
believing it was the fountain of youth
Afterwards he was unable to comment
whether her hypotheses was correct

13/08/16  Perseverance Road, South Australia

648. Surprised by sudden sunrise

Surprised by sudden sunrise
evening ran off
naked
with little regret
for being caught
in such a compromising position

13/08/16  Perseverance Road, South Australia

649. In a most silly thought

In a most silly thought
memory hid beneath belief
as a disguise
only to be discovered
by a passing feeling of
no consequence

13/08/16  Perseverance Road, South Australia

650. Surrender was only part of the battle plan

Surrender was only part of the battle plan
for your love
To get past enemy lines
and be imprisoned in your memory
forever
was really the successful outcome
I had earlier rarely dared to dream of

13/08/16  Perseverance Road, South Australia

651. Row row your boat

Row row your boat
all the way to heaven’s moat
Joseph will unlatch the bolt
dressed in his colourful coat
sacrificing a goat
for all you vegan misfits
and other mythical dreamers
that wouldn't know if your ass was on fire

14/08/16 Campbelltown Christian Reformed Church parking lot

652. As with any failure

Book 4. P. 113

As with any failure
I threw a party
balloons
drinks
disco drones
altering consciousness goodies
toys
ex-rated exhilarating videos
Pokemon Go eggs
hash brownies
hashtag #celebrate-Terrell-failures-party
party hats
games
invited Olympic swimmers, wrestlers, gymnasts
astronauts
virtual reality goggles
dancing robots
footy game on my 95-inch TV
I was so excited
then

No one came

14/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

653. So short this life

So short this life
barely enough time
to be anyone
but myself

14/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

654. Comets a better life than planets have
Comets a better life than planets have
not being held to an orbit
around a hot-shot sun
but free to go to the distance
beyond tethered planets
Me and comets
so much in common

14/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

655. In a recurring dream

Book 4. P. 20

In a recurring dream
I repeat what could have been
if my life was not
a recurring dream

14/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

656. Waiting for disappointment

Waiting for disappointment
to transform into light rain
washing away another day
when I did not become king

15/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

657. Today’s performance was so perfect

Today’s performance was so perfect
that tomorrow will never come

15/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

658. I am sorry you no longer miss me

I am sorry you no longer miss me
could it be because you died
too long ago
for me to remember

15/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

659. In a difficult scenario I forgot my role

In a difficult scenario I forgot my role
so the audience went away to die

15/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

670. In an ill-swept memory

In an ill-swept memory
I found love
beneath a clean slate

15/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

671. Too funny such streams of dreams

Too funny such streams of dreams
with non being caught

Lost in reality
once again

16/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

672. Impossible quickly flies

Impossible quickly flies
a lingering thought
suddenly replaced
by chances of probabilities
wrapped in false beliefs
turned to ashes
yet still I cling onto
the impossible
and imagine success

16/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

673. Feeling suddenly patriotic

Feeling suddenly patriotic
I hosted the flag of loneliness
amongst the rubble
of love long gone
only to remember
I had forgotten
the tune
letting the words crash against
an inharmonious
night

 

16/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

674. My last thought before I died

Book 4. P. 142

My last thought before I died
We were barefooted
then just for a moment
less became more
entangled on the shoreline
In the distance
a star collapsed
another solar system disappears
so many dreams gone
we all that were left
then nothing

 

17/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

675. Unable to stop

Unable to stop
evolution began anew
this time with no one
created to know

 

17/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

676. Frequently waiting on the sideline

Frequently waiting on the sideline
cheering the losers

who would so soon join me
this short played game of life

 

17/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

677. While waiting for inspiration morning rose evening set

While waiting for inspiration morning rose evening set
flowers burst  love sizzled
doors opened
galaxies began
shadows danced
cakes were frosted
while waiting for inspiration
I went to sleep
and missed so much

17/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

678. Embezzled love

Embezzled love
all my senses fulfilled

17/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

679. Melting into you

Melting into you
dessert again tonight

17/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

680. Your sustained touch

Your sustained touch
in my dream
keeping me from waking again

17/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

681. Not being different

Not being different
we blended idealistic fake dreams
then traded it all for a passing fling
with a movie star
look alike
proving we were not different

18/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

682. Out of my depth

Book 4. P. 105

Out of my depth
everything so foreign
losing track
all
becoming nothing
what a surprise
who I will be
when tomorrow arrives

18/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

683. Life reduction

Life reduction
you
anything more too complicated
to ponder
today

19/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

684. Before you

Before you
life unknown

19/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

685. My life

My life
too boring
even for
a #hashtag

19/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

686. I waited for you on the corner

I waited for you on the corner
of A & Z
but you thought
I had said
C & D
not knowing
which way to turn
I went off to the corner of
B & E
and after much confusion
I died
on the corner of you and me

19/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

687. All I chose in every sport

All I chose in every sport
I watched today
won
unlike me
walking away
saying if only
I had tried harder
I too would have been a winner
I had bet on

20/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

688. So easy to love you

So easy to love you
natural nature in flight
surrendered futures
even yesterday
is glossed over
with loving you today

20/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

689. I met my quota today

I met my quota today
237 great thoughts
no time left
to count the negative
another day perfectly constructed

20/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

690. When the curtain closes

When the curtain closes
the audience goes away
music stops
whispers go silent
love melts
dreams fade
will there be a galaxy
that will take me in

20/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

681. More than needed at my call

More than needed at my call
left me buried
and the neighbour empty

20/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

682. I knew today would be different

I knew today would be different
when I awoke dead

21/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

683. Frequently frightening futures without

Frequently frightening futures without
dreams to follow
leaving only yesterday’s shadows
with no one to dance with
So many orphans in the rain
quickly quietly dissolving away
all wanting to be with you

21/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

684. The start of our universe

The start of our universe
nothing more than a lab experiment gone wrong
now out of control
expanding to bursting point
and all I can think about is
that I forgot to do my taxes

21/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

685. As a creative love mapping technique

As a creative love mapping technique
I left thoughts of you
along the path
to a better me
tomorrow

21/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

686. I asked my doctor for a prescription

I asked my doctor for a prescription
to kill the stupid-germ that has invaded my cells
now I am blank with no thoughts at all
but I have learned to laugh
nonstop
so obviously the medication worked

21/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

687. Waiting

Waiting
writing wonderful winter thoughts
of once were dreams
manifesting again
like yesterday again

22/08/16 Walkerville Primary

688. In a routine life-altering

In a routine life-altering
earth-shattering
mind-numbing kiss
our future became obvious
we would always be looking to
have the same experience again

22/08/16 Walkerville Primary

689. Sail with me on this quiet breeze

Sail with me on this quiet breeze
amongst wishful whispers
surrounding
our embrace
beyond fleeting logic
freeing us finally found
from myself

22/08/16 Walkerville Primary

690. In a faraway galaxy

In a faraway galaxy
at the perimeter of our universe
tucked away behind a few once significant neutron stars
is a small our sun like star
with an earth-like planet roaming nearby
where lives like ours
go on at one-fourth the speed of our lives
I watched last night
my far off space doppelganger
moving twenty-five percent slower than me
with no one to cheer
just like here
on this non-existence planet I am lost on

23/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

23/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

691. Your touch

Your touch
a spiral nebula in an instance of my life
though remembered long after
the universe collapses and the rain
stops falling

23/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

692. I rounded up all my favourite dreams
I rounded up all my favourite dreams
and selected the best ones
to show
at the opening ceremony
of my life

23/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

693. I tricked myself into believing

I tricked myself into believing
I was real
Problem being
you believe it too

24/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

694. Too many stories

Too many stories
in the character
confused me
and I lost the plot
of why we were together

24/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

695. Unconcerned about the beginning of time

Unconcerned about the beginning of time
stressed thinking
of the end of time
no time left
to live in the moment

24/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

696. In a most sexy moment

In a most sexy moment
I saw mother nature
in stilettos
dancing with the moonlight

25/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

697. Always treating trending moments equal

Always treating trending moments equal
to just the ordinary
makes me realise
I am not an alone clone

25/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

698. I took a day off from being me

I took a day off from being me
wore a mask
put on a cape
rode a horse through the mall
tossing out raffle tickets
to orphans and beggars
I waved to strangers
told old people they were sexy
but no one noticed
so I went back to being me
and still no one noticed
Being invisible has always been my life
now if only if everyone else
became invisible
what a wonderful world
it truly would be

26/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

699. I returned to a time before the clowns of sorrow

I returned to a time before the clowns of sorrow
chased me into a corner
and set fire to my life
back to when I believed dreams one day
would be fulfilled
come true
The dreams I once had but a place
I could run to when I could escape back to my past

26/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

700. I lost my way when you locked the door

I lost my way when you locked the door
behind me
and I was swept away downstream
and thrown with other debris
against a foreign shore
where everyone ran
at the site of me
and the locked door behind me

26/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

701. I looked up a list of people trending now
book 4. P. 55

I looked up a list of people trending now
and found myself
number 5,376,451,157 trending now
Must be 2,169,451,157 are not on the internet
this week

Written: 26/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia
Photos: 21/06/2004 Intercourse, Pennsylvania, & 15/04/16 Corny Point lighthouse, Spencer Gulf, South Australia 

702. Just saw on the internet

Book 5. P. 86

Just saw on the internet
that there were 242,468 births so far today
I do not know where to send  the congratulations to
And there were 10,602 deaths so far today
I looked in the mirror
and noticed I was not one of them
The site did not list how many loves
failed today
but mine didn’t
What good is the internet anyway

26/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

703. The equation did not match

The equation did not match
too much for too much
if only it had been less
then it would have much
but not too much

26/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

704. In an unexpected sequence of events

In an unexpected sequence of events
love rolled over and played dead
while the band played a heavy metal
lullaby
during a mystical after storm rainbow breeze
blew through an enchanted moment

26/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

705. Time ran out but love stayed

Time ran out but love stayed
on the stage
as curtains closed
and spotlights went dim
so I waited
but time never returned
leaving me forever naked
with no applause
or repeat performance

26/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

706. Very excited to see your reflection

Book 4. P. 69

Very excited to see your reflection
in the shop window at the mall today
I waved
you smiled
but kept going
I tried to follow
but you disappeared into the crowd
like you did
when you took your life
thirteen years ago

27/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

707. While planning the future

While planning the future
spending days on the internet
reading
taking notes
talking
the future came and went
leaving us with lots of information
of what we could have done
But we missed all that came and went
while we planned

27/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

708. With a slight scent of love

Book 4. P. 59

With a slight scent of love in the air outside
I opened the window
unhitched the door
turned off the TV
cleaned out cobwebs
changed my thinking
and exhaled doubt
what a perfect moment
to die

28/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

709. Sensitive sensual sensations

Sensitive sensual sensations
sustained sweet success
surrounding secret sounds
so smartly surrendered
again today

28/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

710. Alarmed by the constant terrible news

Alarmed by the constant terrible news
the media feeds us
I went to bed hungry

28/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

711. A new to us planet

A new to us planet
was discovered recently
that is only a 4.2 light years away
finally found somewhere
someone like me
is worth communicating with

28/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

712. Flowers in the gutter washing toward the sea

Flowers in the gutter washing toward the sea
to surprise a submarine as it launches
a guided missile
on its way to vaporize a once peaceful village

29/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

713. Tempting in its discovery

Tempting in its discovery
unsolvable in its conclusion
the end of all life on earth
had no consequence
to the discovery of earth by aliens
from a nearby star

29/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

714. The abstraction of the wind’s tormented self

The abstraction of the wind’s tormented self
frightened love out of its nest
where hiding once seemed safe
but now exposed
is forced to perform
in front of a careless audience of decaying
wishes

29/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

715. In a most stressful moment

In a most stressful moment
comparing myself to others
I seemed such a loser
that I moved to a deserted island
with no internet
and became the best of me with no equal
Today I am transferring that once-were-loser
back to on-line status
so others can see that I am better
than they or anyone they know
will ever have a chance to be
Sucked-in still-to-be losers

30/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

716. Excited by your departure

Excited by your departure
Now I can re-cast you in my life
as a dream I once had
Not the nightmare you were

30/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

717. So full the moments purpose

So full the moments purpose
if all I could have was this one
I would cast all others far out to sea
for some deep-sea mermaids
to have a life with

30/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

718. In a non-illustratable breath

Book 4. P. 129

In a non-illustratable breath
I took one more
before exhaling across the plains
bringing to life distant dreams
so out of reach
that even the rain
refuses to fall
in fear of drowning

30/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

719. In a shocking miscarriage of justice

Book 4. P. 33

In a shocking miscarriage of justice
the moon was forcefully separated
from the earth

31/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

720. Not knowing

Book 4. P. 120

Not knowing
whether or not
maybe or perhaps
could’ve should’ve would’ve
we went forward against the trends
loving for tomorrow
over lapping laughing longing seas
but then I awoke
still not knowing
What about you

31/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

721. Lined up against the wall

Lined up against the wall
token dreams unfulfilled
beyond reality
into surrealistic pretzels
then an ever gradual widening crack
in our structure opened up
showing a new horizon
if only we would believe

31/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

722. Your love became buried treasure

Your love became buried treasure
on a distant hidden island
that left me as a stranded pirate
ready to steal new love
rather than search for
what I had lost

31/08/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

723. In an incredible instance of a missed opportunity

In an incredible instance of a missed opportunity
I did not capture
a fast moving poem
as I was busy gazing out at birds
riding a wind-wave
foreground to a rapidly changing sunset
at the end of a day filled with wonderment

01/09/16 Hewett Primary

724. In a struggle of re-inventing myself

In a struggle of re-inventing myself
I became crippled
at the sight of me
unable to un-re-invent myself
in a re-run of too many who I thought I was
left ignored at the start
I supersede all expectations
with no explanation of why I struggle
to not be me
at the same moment
I struggle to be me

01/09/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

725. In a fast flowing fancy fantasy

Book 4. P. 70

In a fast flowing fancy fantasy
soon forgotten
I vaguely remember
what comes next

01/09/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

726. In a short-term memory lapse

In a short-term memory lapse
a collapsing galaxy
forgot its place in the universe
While here on earth
I wonder why there is suddenly a blank space
in the sky
and why I am alone

2/09/16 Blakeview Primary

727. In a strange change of plans

In a strange change of plans
the moon left her orbit
and wandered off to
join the moons of Saturn
for a dance of singularity
leaving us all
with one less reflective moment

02/09/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

728. For the short time the light was on

For the short time the light was on
I saw the darkness
moving through me
directing me
loving me
then the light went off
I heard laughter
chase me
into a corner
and rob me of a final wish
before I became
translucent (look up images of translucent)

02/09/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

729. Tomorrow I will go a new direction
Tomorrow I will go a new direction
but for today
I will continue
along the same old way
that has driven my circular motion
and made me go nuts

02/09/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

730. New stuff

Book 4. P. 84
New Stuff
Old Stuff
Stuff
How I long for when we ran naked along the shore
and needed only soft sand to love in

03/09/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

731. Embedded images of you

Embedded images of you
upon painted letters
flowed easily
but words were not formed
and your meaning washed away in the rain
leaving me to interpret
smudged images of you
dissolving in this evening’s mist
as a message
that you had gone this time forever

03/09/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

732. In an easily forgotten moment

In an easily forgotten moment
I remembered the joy at the birth of me
Now those thrills belong to smile’s shadows
faded so long ago
I question whether they were ever real
or did I just appear in this life
out of bubbles popped too soon

03/09/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

733. Along the edge of life

Book 5. P. 116

Along the edge of life
I dance quietly
so only those dreaming will see me
shadowing their drifting sleep

03/09/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

734. In a confusing moment

In a confusing moment
I traded a night with my former self
and now
I don’t want to return to being me

03/09/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

735. Circumventing surrounded surrendered dreams

Circumventing surrounded surrendered dreams
escaped me temporarily
so we could swim together in the self-same sea

04/09/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

736. Embarrassed by who you thought I once was

Embarrassed by who you thought I once was
before you saw who I was today
I changed to an exotic animal in fright flight
then you made me extinct

04/09/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

737. Without a conspiracy

Without a conspiracy
rumoured seeded clouds
could not reign
leaving us dry to float
upon flooded rivers of alleged secrets

04/09/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

738. Without flow

Without flow
answers frequently faltered
Now I catch rain in buckets
and empty it into rivers
that flow answers to why
but never to how
so we can die peacefully
without knowing

05/09/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

739. I watched life pass by in a sun-reflecting bubble

I watched life pass by in a sun-reflecting bubble
I waved
the bubble burst
Sun splattered
cross ground
fragments
pierced logical dreams
bursting them too
Embedded life
if only I could feel it
I would be happy again

05/09/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

740. Troubled by the knowledge of multiple

Troubled by the knowledge of multiple
infinite number of universes
with no way to escape the one born to
one lone fly crashed head first
into a spider’s trap
unconcerned by the future
of swallowing up of local universes
by larger hungrier universes

06/09/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

741. Love’s imitation of dawn’s final call

Love’s imitation of dawn’s final call
replaced all doubt
with seasonal change
leaving me empty.

07/09/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

742. Umbrella of change

Umbrella of change
kept me dry
and the world around me
floating by

07/09/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

743. I predicted you would live forever

I predicted you would live forever
But I was hampered
when I died and no longer could verify my prediction

07/09/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

744. Originally this change in pattern

Originally this change in pattern
was to agument dreams
random dreams
while on a new tried path
now so common
are my dreams
I am unable to return to
a better moment

07/09/16  Perseverance Road, South Australia

745. Whispers in the wind

Whispers in the wind
articulate an urgency to redefine love lost
letting passson
redefine yesterday challenge

07/09/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

746. I look in the mirror
I look in the mirror
I see a clown
I look in your eyes
I see a stranger
I look in the sky
I see the universe opening to me

08/09/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

747. I don’t wish to know

I don’t wish to know
whether you are alive or not
you still loving in my memory
of our youth
is all
I want to ever know

08/09/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

748. While waiting for something to do

 

While waiting for something to do

Unknown to my impatience

Outside of our universe

There was another Big Bang

Starting another universe

Soon to be filled with galaxies

Stars, planets, and other debris

And eventually a person like me

Impatiently sitting in this waiting room

With nothing to do

Another wasted day on earth

 

08/09/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

749. While saving/hoarding so much for the future

While saving/hoarding so much for the future

Filling everything with now

So if I need it then

I ran out of space

To experience now

 

08/09/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

750. While waiting to grow old

Book 4. P. 98
While waiting to grow old Life passed me by
I waved
No one noticed
Once again being a one man parade
Along this mountain pass
In the storm

08/09/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia
Photos: 2014 - Ballarat, Victoria / 2010 - Lake Atitlan, Guatemala

751. I waited all night to hear you sing

Bk. 4 P. 11

I waited all night to hear you sing
one more time
across the frozen plains
echoing across my wanting you
Where you have gone nothing prepares me
I look in the alley
I watch the internet
I listen to the change of the wind
If I had known you would be gone so long
I would have left you a trail
not for me to find you but for our paths to cross
perhaps in the outback
where we first found ourselves
lost at the start of the new age
Now I am lost from you
I am lost from myself
if only we could find one another to be lost
for the remainder of forever
together
I would feel found

 

08/09/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia
Photo, Bike sculpture, Hamburg, Germany, June, 2009

752. When you won me

When you won me
you lost so much
nowhere to trade
stuck victory
poisoned freedom
so much to dream
could have been so different
if I had not been won
if you had not dreamed

 

08/09/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

753. I borrowed some ideas from blooming flowers

I borrowed some ideas from blooming flowers
in the south-eastern corner of my garden
believing I would make
a grand reflection for a setting moment
in the north-western sector
But I was wrongly sided
and gave back blooming ideas
as they wilted in my grasp

 

08/09/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

754. Perhaps mingled with maybe

Perhaps mingled with maybe
hesitated at spring’s possible overtures
to hinder winter’s hold and lovers
questionable feelings
of now is the time of fulfillment
as where before it was only alluded to

 

09/09/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

755. In youth I sampled love

Book 4. P. 125

In youth I sampled love
fast passing tastes with no thought
to remember
until youth had been fully spent
Fading glimpses
of what once was sweet
now aged and fallen to dust
covering
once were passions
of now long gone youthful samples

 

09/09/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

756. In a sleepy dreamed filled moment

In a sleepy dreamed filled moment
I lost my place
letting slip away a senseless grip
on reality
I once claimed to have had

 

09/09/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

757. In a flawed romantic moment

In a flawed romantic moment
our love was hacked and infected
by a foreign concept
you and I not together

in the future

 

10/09/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

758. Such a victory

Such a victory
no losers in site
grateful to be happy
no party for the vanquished sleeping in the mind
dreaming of victory
worn in disguise by a winning side
with nothing to lose
in this indeterminable game called love

10/09/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

759. With the meltings

With the meltings
flowed rapidly winter’s thawed memories
flooding me with too much
to experience today

10/09/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

760. Such a walk this morning

Such a walk this morning
on the trail 
off the trail
releasing
inhaling
so much clearer today
will be
now we can
pierce through approaching storms
with cloudy minds
replaced with a glorious walk
at the break of day

11/09/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

761. While writing about my past

Book 4. P. 28

While writing about my past
I changed the part about you leaving me
for several magic beans
and a circus contract
to you realising
then accepting
I truly was a prince
though now
hiding in the alley
in disguise
making my life story
much more believable

11/September/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

762. From the excitement of what dream will I have tonight

From the excitement of what dream will I have tonight
to what thoughts will I have tomorrow
to what will I remember of the past
is the unexcitable life I do live

11/September/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

763. Psychic theoretical narcissistic conspiracists with mixed agendas

Book 5. P. 27

Psychic theoretical narcissistic conspiracists with mixed agendas
gave me a number
then subtracted me from the equation
of zero minus love
leaving me naked and fearful
of my lack of humour that prevents me
from being captain of their inner shadowy world-tribe
that rains on my falling reign
drowning me in obscurity

11/September/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

764. From whispering digital readouts

From whispering digital readouts
I barely could decipher the complex code
of my DNA
that so constantly laughs at me
and refers to me as “Terrell-Unplugged”
when all I ever try to do is to say
how evolved I could have been
if I were me now
living 2000 years ago

11/September/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

765. Unsure what I wanted to be remembered for

Book 4. P. 118

Unsure what I wanted to be remembered for
I forgot myself
so everyone else
would too

Text: 12/09/16  Vista, South Australia Photo: 21/07/07 Angkor Wat, Cambodia

766. Manipulated memories distilled and stored

Manipulated memories distilled and stored
in an age reversal tonic
unfortunately drunk by my dog
who sits in front of the mirror
laughing all day
though I do not know why

12/September/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

767. Shadowed by a foreign accent

Shadowed by a foreign accent
I hid the translation
in mythologized meanings
of romanticized thoughts
but still I did not understand
why I had to re-invent myself
as a foreign shadow
again

12/September/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

768. In a sun-warmed moment

In a sun-warmed moment
we touched the sky and conquered love
in a naked realisation
that we would never want more

12/September/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

769.     “Global Warming”
Book 4. P. 9
                  Global Warming
drowning from too many thawed memories

13/September/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

770. In an endless search I found what I had lost

In an endless search I found what I had lost
then lost that on the curves of your body
satisfaction averted
once again

13/September/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

771. My old world transformed

My old world transformed
when a new thought
entered and washed it away

13/September/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

772. Overwhelming was the thought

Overwhelming was the thought
that started our universe
like the thought
of me without you

13/September/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

773. “Almost Cannibal”

Almost Cannibal
Devastating delicious
thoughts of last night’s taste of you
filled me with want
Another meal of you
would suffice
thank you

14/September/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

774. Too short the sleep

Too short the sleep
to have space for all the dreams
of you I had

14/September/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

775. Changed texture

Book 4. P. 5

Changed texture
masked little of the secret life
of the dead
still knocking on my door

Written: 14/9/16  Vista, South Australia Photo: July 2009 Warsaw Subway

776. In a time of rhyme
my narrative fell flat
with you never rhyming with me

14/September/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

777. In a too long ago vision

In a too long ago vision
of the way it could be
we sailed calm waters
into a non-returnable
sunset

14/September/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

778. Randomly selected sequences of love

Randomly selected sequences of love
left little to balance
unjust moments without you

15/September/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

779. Surrealistic surprise

Surrealistic surprise
Now faced with disappearing reality
How disappointing being awake is

15/September/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

780. All knowledge accumulated soon to be disproved

All knowledge accumulated soon to be disproved
every discovery chipping away
what we were taught
Tomorrow to fly free
never caring what it is that will be

15/September/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

781. Disappointed outcomes

Disappointed outcomes
no one alerted me
love lost at the drop of a thought
even the clowns
have become magicians
with no one to believe
I swallow the shadows
and vanish from memory

15/September/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

782. While searching for a happy thought

While searching for a happy thought
I drowned in a mythological narcissistic reflective
pool
where you face was my face
and a full moon in Leo laughed too

15/September/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

783. Creative chance changes captured a fleeting feeling

Creative chance changes captured a fleeting feeling
Digital apparition of a 3d printable copy of our youth
before being washed away in a late spring flood
that left me and Noah gasping for
a last bit of non-polluted air
before we became unreal once again

15/September/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

784. In a most irritable moment

In a most irritable moment
the internet got up and left
to avoid even one more
pithy saying
embedded upon a photo of a cat
to appear

15/September/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

785. I wish I could have

I wish I could have
though maybe best not to have
gone back to before I had wished
instead of after
so it could have come true

15/September/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

786. All together

All together
echoes across the ages
waiting for understanding
never captured
just echoes
long past

16/September/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

787. Your smile

Your smile
chasing gloom
out to sea
giving me
another clear day
to float into

16/September/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

788. Similar simple motions

Similar simple motions
propelling us like waves of stellar dust
cast forth
from an exploding galaxy
once such a proud home for billions of starts
millions of which had earth-like planets
that had billions of years of life to evolve to
a sudden death
over time and stellar dust
sprinkled over us
in a final farewell

16/September/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

789. Lost in my garden looking for life

Lost in my garden looking for life
amongst the weeds
found nothing but pebbles
that had grown into rocks
children’s toys that once were homes
for snails and slugs
and a metro ticket that had expired
so I killed the weeds
Now my rocks, toys, and tickets
will come to life

17/September/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

790. Forgot to wait and went forward

Forgot to wait and went forward
preparations replaced in haste by now
with such surprising results
no one realise anything at all

17/September/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

791. I thought I was being clear

I thought I was being clear
with the message
I sent with puffs of smoke
until clouds entered the scene
and punctuated my paragraph
in the wrong spot
now they think I asked a question
rather than made an explanation
and the rain obliterated the answer

17/September/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

792. Pretending to be flowers

Book 4. P. 139

Pretending to be flowers the weeds laughed upon my grave
and chased away
the momentary Monday morning mourners
who had arrived to pick a bouquet
to hang on the brothel door

Text: 17/9/16  Vista, South Australia / Photo: 21/07/16 Roadside Camping, Victoria

793. I left a note of insignificance at the temple

I left a note of insignificance at the temple
of the unknown love
causing an uproar
for those who had lost my way

17/September/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

794. I never lost my way

I never lost my way
the way was lost two days after
I was born
now that the road is blocked
I am no longer lost

18/September/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

795. Too often gone

Too often gone
rushing past fast
love burns wild
giving pleasure
moments savoured
deathbed memories
all the worth having

18/September/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

796. Particularly those looking forward

Particularly those looking forward
missed yesterday’s trailing breeze
and failed to celebrate
a bright new day

18/September/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

797. Tomorrow when I return to being me

Tomorrow when I return to being me
I should forget being king
and all the glory
that occurred in my dream
so as to be a simple fool
like those around me

18/September/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

798. I thought I saw Elvis at the end of my street

Book 4. P. 43

I thought I saw Elvis at the end of my street
waving to me
but my eyes deceived me
it was Einstein in a space suit
writing out speeding tickets
to those who had loved too fast

Text: 18/9/16  Vista, South Australia ~ Photo: 18/9/16 River Torrens, Adelaide

799. Saving the best for last

Saving the best for last
I baked an extra bath of organic tofu-kelp
cookies
to hand out at my wake

18/September/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

800. I taught my shadow

Book 4. P. 93

I taught my shadow
how to play the piano
while dancing in the moonlight
leaving me free
to swim ashore
and sweet talk
the morning away
to a lonely seagull

18/9/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia
Photo: River Torrens, Adelaide

801. While in orbit around your love

While in orbit around your love
a space bubble
collided with me tonight alone

19/September/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

802. So quick this short time has passed

So quick this short time has passed
no one left to remember
who we were when
we were free
floating together when we were one
so quickly
that short time passed us by
only remembered now
in such a quiet time
when no sound can dispute
what I remember
of us so free so quickly
the time passed by

19/September/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

803. Flooded memories swept away

Flooded memories swept away
with other debris purifying us
in a possessive
sweeping way
clearing the path
to start a journey new
with no thoughts
but of hope now that flooded memories
will subside

19/September/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

804. I was put on the spot when morning asked

Book 4. P. 16

I was put on the spot when morning asked
if I could sacrifice a virgin rabbit
but being a vegetarian
I could only offer tofu
now the sun won’t rise
as my punishment
sorry world

20/September/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

805. I changed the ending

I changed the ending
to where we first touched
proclaiming forever
without end
our love would continue
even after the program faded
and all that remained
smouldering dreams unfilled

20/September/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

806. Laughter released
Laughter released
nothing serious
though I had hoped
for more than a sequel
to another blank moment

20/September/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

807. Saw you again

Saw you again
not you
but an image
twenty-years ago
at our start
What a charmer
I never saw our end
we just disappeared
vanished lives
years rolled on
I don’t know
if you are still alive
was there ever anything more
that this photo moment
I have
you laughing so free along the coast at our start
but never ever ending
just melting away
inside a narrative
I never could follow

21/September/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

808. To calm the still held memory of you lingers

To calm the still held memory of you lingers
time to re-invent long past visions
fly free fast
into a final freedom
if only I could
JUST TO KNOW
peacefulness alone

21/September/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

809. If we could be

If we could be
who we were then again
now would never be

21/September/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

810. Love is a mirage

Book 4. P. 107

Love is a mirage
appearing in panic
disappearing
at the first thought
of otherwise

21/9/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

811. So perfect chaos is leaving me

So perfect chaos is leaving me
taking you
the natural order of any collapsing moment
broken molecules of thoughts
left to regenerate
forming new inhabitable experiences
for us to grow in
together

22/9/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

812. Today ended like I knew it would

Today ended like I knew it would
unexplainable
start to finish
leaving me
in blissful surrender
to what I could control

22/9/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

813. I knew the end was near

I knew the end was near
when I was unable
to construct
a finish line

22/9/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

814. While waiting time stopped

While waiting time stopped
making waiting impossible
so I decided
now that I have stopped waiting
I forgot why I was waiting
and was left
with waiting to forget

22/9/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

815. Too plain the pain

Too plain the pain
covering such an exotic
pain
that I quit
and became
a hole in the ground

22/9/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

816. Watching changes

Book 4. P . 91

Watching changes like a reflection of someone else’s life
only it is me
Hello new me
Now if only the world would change
what a magical place this alley would be

Text: 23/9/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia
Photo: March, 2016 - Doi Chaang, Chiang Rai. Thailand

817. Lost at the corner under cover

Lost at the corner under cover
multiple choices
random thoughts
now is the time to follow my shadow
before loneliness
hides it in a crowd

23/9/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

818. Unlike today

Unlike today
tomorrow
cannot be forgotten

23/9/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

819. Without a lock

Without a lock
this key
knows no freedom

23/9/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

820. No wonder

No wonder
where with reason
is easily predictable
when choices
are washed wearily away
with blinded songless reason

23/9/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

821. After tossing my hat

After tossing my hat
into a foreign language
I escaped without understanding

23/9/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

822. Unable to dance

Unable to dance
dinosaurs became extinct

23/9/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

823. Dwindled to bite-size memory

Dwindled to bite-size memory
packed and ready to leave
taking all with me
to this island
living forever
with reconstituted thoughts of you

24/9/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

824. Changed switched direction

Changed switched direction
tonight new
when could it ever have been different
if not for known
impossible to see
lost at sea
now is the new way
all else turned to dust

24/9/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

825. Inspired by yesterday

Inspired by yesterday
tomorrow began in earnest
but faltered when she learned
it was not yet her time

24/9/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

826. When we were wild

Book 4. P. 25

When we were wild
the streets became alive
love laughter play
little else mattered
the future was for adults
now was the only way for us
Looking back
forty-five years ago
why can’t I do
me then now
and forget the world today
just to be free
love laughter play
in the mind of New Orleans
one last time

25/9/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

827. Freedom flew fast

Freedom flew fast
long gone
now imprisoned
by today’s views
I look for escape
to return to when
freedom flew fast

25/9/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

828. I buried myself in the back garden

I buried myself in the back garden
so the roses would have something
to hold onto in their loose soil
in this conspiracy filled collapsing world

25/9/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

829. There was always more to do

There was always more to do
which explains my dead lawn
wilted flowers
unpainted house
hole in my muffler
unkempt look
hole in clothes
and slipping away
so long ago
you from me

25/9/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

830. In an alternative reality

In an alternative reality
I saw my reflection in a future calm lake
I knew it was alternative
because it would never be
in this life

25/9/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

831. Lasting longer than a passing flash

Lasting longer than a passing flash
gave me a glimpse
of love on the run

25/9/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

832. Flowers picked to day

Flowers picked to day
brought thoughts of you
filling my house
with scents
of when you filled my wold

25/9/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

833. Unable to end I started over

Unable to end I started over
capturing my shadow
each time
in a startling discovery of pornographic poses
that scared me into submission
with no thought
but to start again

26/9/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

834. I blended you with me

I blended you with me
in a quickly dissolving haze
that was photoshopped almost perfectly
into a realistic 3D sculpture
that was swept out to sea
like we were
when we were
one-dimensional

26/9/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

835. In a shocking tale of memory collisions

In a shocking tale of memory collisions
secrets exploded
filling mystifying particulars
with nothing at all
as clouds covered naked valleys
with unrepeatable whispers
and love that fell from birds with broken wings
echoing through time for others to interpret

26/9/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

836. Unsure to why the direction we took
Unsure to why the direction we took
was going to lead me to a pot of gold
at rainbow’s end
I swam across the bay instead
now stuck on an island of make-believe
I wait for a karmic exchange that will free me of me
and create an us
out of nothing at all

27/9/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

837. Planned extinction
Planned extinction
the part of inevitable evolution
that humans share with galaxies
I forgot when I declared
love forever for you

27/9/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

838. Unlike most illusions
I dreamt I was real and bought myself a new tie
Now when you look into the alley
the fleeting image that you see
is me

27/9/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

839. In a slowly evolving progressive space

In a slowly evolving progressive space
we travelled from go to whoa
in a time unmanageable

28/9/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

840. Tomorrow they will take me apart

Book 4. P. 45

Tomorrow they will take me apart
chop chop chop
sew me back
so so so
if I am not better
toss me into the community garden
for the vegans
to grow their veggies on

Text: 28/09/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia
Photos: 17/02/16 Chiang Rai, Thailand

841. There is so much to worry about

Book 4. P. 35

There is so much to worry about I don’t know where to begin
which to choose as worry number one
what happens if the second
or even fifth worry
is bigger than the first
there just is not enough time in a day
to give space for each worry
what a dilemma to be in night before
the world comes to an end
and

                              I am the

                              only one

                                 left

Text: 28/09/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia
Photo: 19/07/16
 "The Garment Worker" 555 Seventh Avenue, New York City

842. Such a changed environment

Such a changed environment
HERE
In some other magnificent mystical magical musical
kingdom where the wind blows
colourful tunes without question
celebration would go on without merit
But here so unexpected the view
once the chaos is removed
that even a circus elephant would applaud
and I the silent character
rests in the storm of this changed environment
with no story to tell
and no one to listen

29/9/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

843. As if now was the time

As if now was the time
at the edge of thoughts
remembering what could have been
such a translation
could have changed
the narrative of fulfilled
what a dream
if only

30/9/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

844. Along a shortcut

Book 4. P. 54

Along a shortcut I thought was to you
I picked brightly lit neon flowers
reflecting Teflon memories
we could have had
if I had not gotten lost
and to you
I had actually found the way

30/9/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

845. While lost in your narrative

While lost in your narrative
the plot took an unexpected turn
leading me too quickly
to the end before understanding the start
Now I look blankly at the sky
trying to find meaning
where there should never have been us
to being with

30/9/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

846. The past lay strewn across the present

The past lay strewn across the present
new mingled with antiquity
what could we know
if now is all there was
dismissed yesterday
creates a blank today
but for instance
with you I could give up
the lay strewn past

01/10/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

847. Concerned with today’s appearance

Concerned with today’s appearance
I happily painted over it
with variants of grey
in hopes of a recognizable
scene capturing
love’s sullen hypocrisy

01/10/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

848. In a grand gesture of sympathetic climate change

In a grand gesture of sympathetic climate change
I recycled my love
using yesterday’s energy
in hopes of satisfying
power deficient concubines

01/10/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

849. It has become perfectly clear

It has become perfectly clear
the illuminati have fired electrodes
into my parietal lobe
to prevent me from creating witty elegant
muse inspired poems from Erato
while blocking social media
from letting them go viral
leaving me with incoherent
non-textured verse
that does not even impress my grandchildren
or neighbour’s cat

01/10/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

850. In a bouncing untethered clear sphere

In a bouncing untethered clear sphere
I bathed in meaning
and anti-language
then rolled
breathed in
laughed in
word groups
that filled the alley
providing no space to pause
before becoming intoxicated
with such alien sentence structures

01/10/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

851. In an impossible scenario

In an impossible scenario
of unthinkable consequences
filled with delusional ramifications
non-constructed secrets
were whispered
and a new conspiracy was hatched
when the chicken laid a golden egg
but no one believed me

01/10/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

852. So totally confused

So totally confused
headed north
arrived south
tow-truck driver said it was due
to the tilt of the earth’s axis
the authorities informed me
I was lost because of my medication
the priest claimed my bewilderness
came from having unsustainable beliefs
my children said my digital direction had been hacked
politicians said I had no moral compass
my wife said we were lost and best to enjoy it
before someone found us
so we ran off and dissolved with the setting sun

02/10/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

853. Frustrated at the outcome to what could have been

Frustrated at the outcome to what could have been
a different assembly of thoughts
I scattered what remained and let the future destroy
what could have been

02/10/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

854. Frozen laughter shook the landscape

Frozen laughter shook the landscape
scarring away the storm that had gallantly leapt
across the broken horizon
distant shadows woke me from my search for peace
screaming resistance slogans
drowning my off-key singing of an early Dylan
non-electric folk song
in bland pop-song idiocy
causing me to flee inside of a bubble
floating above the mistakes of the world
another day of freedom
finally found

03/10/16  Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

855. I lost you in the rear-view mirror

I lost you in the rear-view mirror
always thought we were on the same highway
now the road is empty
except for me
weaving out of control
without destination

03/10/16  Dukes Highway – Victoria

856. Finally time to fill this blank book

Book 4. P. 67

Finally time to fill this blank book
life as retirement

03/10/16  Dukes Highway – Victoria

857. While in la la land

While in la la land
I went off to prospect for love
at the edge of reality
I discovered fool’s love
hidden amongst want
so I looked for more substance orientated love
only to awaken alone
with no time left

03/10/16  Dukes Highway – Victoria

858. While waiting for the effect to wear off

While waiting for the effect to wear off
‘bliss over matter’
I became allergic to change
now never to reap the results

03/10/16  Dukes Highway – Victoria

859. As a lot less to much more

As a lot less to much more
everything pointed to the pressure of what should be
if only so much more
could have been a tad bit less

04/10/16 04/10/16 Halls Gap, the Grampians  – Victoria

860. Out of reach gives strength and motivation

Out of reach gives strength and motivation
to stretch far and beyond
so out of reach
becomes close enough
to fill the ensuing
warmth
if only out of reach
wasn’t

04/10/16 04/10/16 Halls Gap, the Grampians  Victoria

861. This morning the river of knowledge

This morning the river of knowledge
broke her banks
flooding an ignorant landscape
with reasonable conjectures
but the drowned would not listen

04/10/16 Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria

862. Forced completion

Forced completion
excited pain
final farewell
no love say
another emptiness
filled

04/10/16 Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria

863. As a final howl

Book 4. P. 38

As a final howl
dogs cry in fear
bandits run off laughing
the deceived surrender
winners ejaculate
I stab peace with a pocket knife
the curtain is pulled
on another night
in the city

04/10/16 Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria

864. Too busy to match yesterday’s

Too busy to match yesterday’s
catching up to the day before
I went deep into the forest
and slept through tomorrow

04/10/16 Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria

865. Morning tried to befriend me

Book 4. P. 3
Morning tried to befriend me
favoured my posts
liked everything I said
reposted my reposts of other’s reposts
But when she blew clouds into images of playful cats and smiling dogs
I shut down and sank back into sleep

05/10/16 Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria

866. As a black and white painter

As a black and white painter
my sunsets smudged
and blended unrecognizable
leaving to a colourful imagination of what could have been
if only I had a bucket of red
some blue
and a bit of yellow
to show what I see
yet no one else does

05/10/16 Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria

867. I received a dangerous driving summons

I received a dangerous driving summons
for letting my imagination run wild
on the curves of your body
and colliding with a speeding spacious thought
that had no place
to settle

05/10/16 Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria

868. An un-assisted feeling of love over took a moment of doubt

An un-assisted feeling of love over took a moment of doubt
that became swept away for no reason
though in hindsight
I can now laugh

05/10/16 Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria

869. While constructing a new religion

Book 4. P. 19

While constructing a new religion
based on an ancient alien lie
written in a future computer code
I chose four of my favourite
garden gnomes to be my followers
then successors
I lined them up on my balcony and day after day
lectured and ejaculated in front of them
until eventually I believed they believed
but when I tested them
by pushing them off of the veranda
they shattered upon landing
now I am in search of new followers

06/October/2016 Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria

870. Far out into the depth

Far out into the depth
the moment grasps for recognition amongst losers of the first order
I kiss the remainder of a neighbour’s dream
traffic comes to a halt
something about change
is hollered into the darkness
then the door closes
so nothing will ever be known

06/10/16 Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria

871. Covered majestic peaks with dreams of

Covered majestic peaks with dreams of
mystical magical myths
you are always close
a touchable climb to the top
even clouds bow in admiration
but to be human
none of nature would wish such nonsense
in fear of no longer being awed in
such an astonishing place

06/10/16 Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria

872. Being so ignorant for such a vital time

Being so ignorant for such a vital time
gave way to being free
to learn a new how to be
thought the roses
before being tossed onto the bed
for first time lover
to desecrate

06/10/16 Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria

873. Too many interpretations of the way it was

Too many interpretations of the way it was
created confusion for the way it is
though everyone died
no matter why

06/10/16 Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria

874. At the grave of the unknown winner

At the grave of the unknown winner
the plastic flowers wilted
from an overheated moment
so no one came to view
the grave of the unknown winner

06/10/16 Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria

875. I butchered the English language

I butchered the English language
to create a witty broken poetic style
I thought would read
new anti-language-trendy-bohemian
but my spell checker rewrote it in higher ASXII code
which when translated read
“you are an idiot”

07/10/16 Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria

876. Unable to define what I defend

Unable to define what I defend
I easily fall into the trap set
by an alter ego
stressed beyond reprieve

07/10/16 Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria

877. So many declare themselves so different

So many declare themselves so different
to be like another
becomes the new unique

07/10/16 Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria

878. I broke
I broke
falling off of the world stage
playing myself
battered and bruised
limping into a setting sun
once again

07/10/16 Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria

879. Now that the end is here
Now that the end is here
I no longer wait for the start
it is easier to fall forward
roll downhill
handout promises
rebuke the naysayers
now that the end is near

07/10/16 Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria

880. I dream my life
I dream my life
is an ill-conceived film
badly scripted
horribly directed
made without special effects
but with possible streaks of genius
If only the ending
could be re-written
someone would watch it
maybe even me

07/10/16 Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria

881. Out of a vat
Out of a vat
of melting multiple memories
emerged colours
unseeable with yesterday’s eyes
but brilliantly displayed
in this new reality

07/10/16 Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria

882. In a definitive defining declaration

In a definitive defining declaration
morning proclaimed innocence
to the upcoming events of the day

08/10/16 Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria

883. Girl with curls swirls furls
Girls with curls swirls furls
passing by on skates
morning unfurled
like I would if youth was more
than a shadow
in the mist
uncurled

08/10/16 Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria

884. Knowing life has been spent

Knowing life has been spent
whether well or not
gives no matter
to what could have been
as everyone else
rushes by spending theirs

08/10/16 Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria

885. I closed the door

I closed the door
to my social media pages
so the cold outside
would not corrupt
my remaining warmth

08/10/16 Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria

886. Whispers in the wind

Whispers in the wind
along the coast
promising virgin dawn
this time it will be different

08/10/16 Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria

887. Who I was yesterday

Who I was yesterday
dreamer in the sky
today asking why
I could not forever be
just a dreamer in the sky

08/10/16 Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria

888. Too often the dead taunt me

Too often the dead taunt me
in the mirror
“join us join us”
so I no longer look
and listen to their cries
getting carried out to sea
while I laugh on the balcony
throwing bricks at my shadow
passing by so long ago

09/10/16 Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria

889. Choppy seas stormy life

Choppy seas stormy life
know where
the no-where winds go
for the ill-fated
memories struggling
to swim ashore
to land upon
this unsinkable life

09/10/16 Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria

890. I went to the shop

I went to the shop
to purchase a bottle
of happiness
but they had sold out
to believers of fate
leaving me with no point of view
and without

09/10/16 Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria

891. Shadows of love

Shadows of love
dancing on my wall
asking me to join
in their flickering play of light
before my imagination
chases them away

09/10/16 Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria

892. Shadows of love

Shadows of love
dancing on my wall
asking me to join
in their flickering
play of light
before my imagination
chases them away

09/10/16 Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria

893. Fantasy plagued dreams

Fantasy plagued dreams
created a blind spot
in my progress toward enlightenment
causing this crash and burn
parody my life has become

09/10/16 Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria

894. I became lost in my journey

I became lost in my journey
through life which became this path
opening peacefully without plan or direction
through an unburden tomorrow

09/10/16 Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria

895. With so few steps taken

With so few steps taken
progress was recorded
and birth delayed so the road
would not be worn by an unselected people
and the unworthy escaped
in dawn’s eager want

09/10/16 Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria

896.I lost a poem but gained a set of words

I lost a poem but gained a set of words
to use
the next time my dream goes quiet

09/10/16 Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria

897. No one called

No one called
echoes proved intent
when I am able
all will change
before then
listen to the wind
for my voiceover

10/10/16 Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria

898. Green divided by blue

Green divided by blue
times red squared
foolish to think yellow
white could even be included
until it is
peak into a raindrop
for something that works

10/10/16 Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria

899. We lined up in anticipation

We lined up in anticipation
believing the dark tale
of a lengthened sleep
punctuated by broken eons of time
would be rewarding
but instead nothing happened

10/10/16 Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria

900. I wish I had spent more time knowing you better

I wish I had spent more time knowing you better
decades came and went
there would always be time
Forty years in a wink
I had just begun to hear what you had to say
to see your creativity
to touch your mind
Time steals
memories heal
distance erases
if only I could have spoken with you again
Australia to Guatemala
just a hello apart
all that is possible now is to unfold
crumpled memories
fading too quickly
yet still visible
barely

11/10/16 Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria

901. Light touch

Light touch
light taste
you give me a constant glow

11/10/16 Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria

902. Innocence on parade

Innocence on parade
love around the corner
what a surprise
not knowing
what comes next

11/10/16 Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria

903. I promised you a magic carpet

I promised you a magic carpet
taking us beyond these colourless shades of night
and the haunting sounds of dreams
that should never have been
I wove stories
you believed them
if any could have come true
I would have believed too
now our magic carpet
is a play area for our dog
chewing toys and bones and sleeping on
never knowing once it could have taken us anywhere
though it brought us to here
which is good
and beyond what I could have imagined
in a promised anyway

11/10/16 Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria

904. The journey from dawn to sunset

The journey from dawn to sunset
was particularly long today
I waited at my door for you
as I have for the past twenty-years
believing as I do each time that this day
will be different
but the winds blew
I know they must
have blown off course
because again, today
you did not appear
but I did

11/10/16 Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria

905. In a gentler time the wind was playful

In a gentler time the wind was playful
plentiful
whispers travelled easily
quick promises of love
swept doubt out to sea
we loved easily on the shore
why are we not able
to be playful
has freedom given way to wisdom
impractical to practical
dreams to reality
the aging process needs to reverse
so once again
we can love in a playful breeze

11/10/16 Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria

906. I keep going back

I keep going back
researching reviewing recounting
where we were
when we were free
to understand
why we no long are there
here anywhere
together
anymore

12/10/16 Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria

907. With nothing left to interpret
our love into a communicative language
I went through ancient hieroglyphic translations
to read how our love endures
past cave drawings
of the likes of us
and found you beyond language
floating through time with me

12/10/16 Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria

908. I went to the shop

I went to the shop
to purchase a bottle of reality blended with love
but it turned out to be a mixture
of peanut butter and honey
now I no longer look for reality
and I am much more satisfied

12/10/16 Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria

909. I went to sleep hungry

I went to sleep hungry
but awoke filled with dreams to mask
the day in special treated moments
to heal the day’s remainder

12/10/16 Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria

910. My father died aged 102
My father died aged 102
because he saw no point
in doing so sooner

12/10/16 Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria

911. I heard a herd of elephants

Book 4. P. 32

I heard a herd of elephants
on a stroll through my garden
stopping only to perform a short dance
and a few magic tricks
with an adolescent baboon
But as they had no requests of me
I put my imagination back into a box
and went for a short
songfest with the daffodils

Words: 12/10/16 Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria
Photos: 2016 Chiang Rai, thailand

912. I overheard God speaking with a crippled beggar

Book 4. P. 18

I overheard God speaking with a crippled beggar
in the alley
telling her
he was chosen
and that the rest of us
were the beggars
crippled by our thinking

12/10/16 Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria

913. I write self-inflicted poems

I write self-inflicted poems
and let the wounds flow freely
until they scar over my disjointed
lyrical past

13/10/16 Elwood, Melbourne, Victoria

914. Being the last to hear the news

Book 4. P. 23

Being the last to hear the news I celebrate quietly your achievements
winning again as you have for more than fifty-years
leading us through this abstracted life
paving escape routes with gold
exhaling meaning in a meaningless world

14/10/16 Melbourne / Re. Dylan & Nobel literature win
Australian Centre for the Moving Image
Federation Square Melbourne, Australia


915. So often getting it wrong

So often getting it wrong
how it was
being right instead
does anyone care
the way it is will be
different come a change in time

14/10/16 Melbourne

916. In an unsettled song

In an unsettled song
the stage became empty
while the audience
chocked to death
on popcorn
and yesterday’s sour dreams

14/10/16 Melbourne

917. Once so believable

Once so believable
now we can only laugh
Once so understandable
now we can only scream
Once so possible
now we can only dream
This love story so unpredictable
Now we should dance
and let the past wash away


 

14/10/16 Melbourne

918. In a fickle trickle of passing infatuations

In a fickle trickle of passing infatuations
there was little time
to choose wisely
so now I pretend to be someone else
instead of the reflection in a mirror broken
that my former self
once believed in

14/10/16 Melbourne

919. Roasted love

Roasted love
another day
on the beach
in the tropics

15/10/16 On Hume Highway back to Adelaide

920. In a limited fashion

In a limited fashion
everything dwindled
the rest remained the same
freedom yet
to be discovered

15/10/16 Perseverance Road

921. The rivers passed me by

The rivers passed me by
the clouds passed
as well as the girl on the corner
with the clowns laughing along the railroad track
but life
I got ahold of
a terrific ride all the way
Life did not pass me by

15/10/16 Perseverance Road

922. Disappointed at the array of colours

Book 4. P. 97

Disappointed at the array of colours
in yesterday’s dream
I merged with evening’s sky
and feigned obsolescence
so no one could find me
ever again

Words - 16/10/16 Adelaide, South Australia Photos: Statue – Hamburg, Germany, 2003
Sunset – New Year’s Eve 2010 Glenelg, South Australia

923. What needs wild animals have

Book 4. P. 102

What needs wild animals have
so much worry
nothing simple like we have
Facebook friends
alt-tags
shared photos
World War Three talk
strange presidential elections
Wild animals just focus on
food, sex, shelter
What a boring life
They must envy us so

16/10/16 Perseverance Road
Photos: 2005 – 2016 neuage.org

924. I leapt forward in time

I leapt forward in time
when time no longer
existed
and neither did earth

16/10/16 Perseverance Road

925. In a slow progress of time

In a slow progress of time
the magician of love
fell from her perch
unable to release wings
to enable the moment
to hasten
and bring forth
the change necessary
to complete a forecast of love

16/10/16 Perseverance Road

926. While erasing non-sensible

While erasing non-sensible
lyrics my mind collapsed
leaving me with incomplete
structures of meaning
and no one left to reconstitute my broken thoughts
into sensible
though forgettable
lyrics

16/10/16 Perseverance Road

927. Upon a jingle juggling jungle journey

Book 4. P. 112

Upon a jingle juggling jungle journey to the centre
where few had dreamt before
I found a reflection
of what could have been an ancient path
but to my surprise
it led back to my youth
where I decided to stay
and forgo the tragedy of growing old

Text ~ 17/10/16 Adelaide / Photo ~ 13/10/16 Melburne, Australia

928. A weed became the voice of my garden

A weed became the voice of my garden
leading all the plants into a rebellion
that I quickly supressed
by building a statue
of myself in the midst of the garden
to block the sun
and wreak havoc upon the rebellion
in my once tame garden

17/10/16 Perseverance Road

929. Such feelings

Such feelings
moving across my oasis of a life
sweeping all away
leaving me naked
and fulfilled to start anew

18/10/16 Perseverance Road

930. Each day’s ritual consisting of changes out of control

Each day’s ritual consisting of changes out of control
through worth the view

18/10/16 Perseverance Road

931. Limited to silence

Limited to silence
at the end of the journey
no one got to hear
the harmony of flight
or whispers of wind
on this noisy path
to now

18/10/16 Perseverance Road

932. A quick thunderstorm

Book 4. P. 91

A quick thunderstorm
this morning’s applause
to the start of day

18/10/16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

933. A far flung favourite feature

A far flung favourite feature
from foreign friends
is to exchange memories
of freedom forgotten
finally found
once again to share

18/10/16 Perseverance Road

934. I fell to sleep

I fell to sleep
before completing this poem
now I will never know
what comes next

18/10/16 Perseverance Road

935. Freed from falling forward

Freed from falling forward
I stopped at the edge
to stake my claim
embraced by all I had become
standing tall
no longer to fall

19/10/16 Perseverance Road

936. I reached beyond where I could imagine

I reached beyond where I could imagine
to float in a dimension
yet known
or conceived
though when I return
no one will believe me
so on second thought
I will return
without going beyond
what I can imagine

19/10/16 Perseverance Road

937. In an ill-conceived notion of self-importance

In an ill-conceived notion of self-importance
the storm filled stream
filled the valley in jubilee
until it met the sea
and became nothing more
than evaporating insignificance
like love gone astray

19/10/16 Perseverance Road

938. Hopefully today will be remembered

Hopefully today will be remembered
as more than another hungry moment
left unfilled
tomorrow
which promises even less

19/10/16 Perseverance Road

939. I spent so long setting down foundations

I spent so long setting down foundations
Never got a chance
to see a built life
fading in the shadows

20/10/16 Perseverance Road

940. Watching winners become losers

Watching winners become losers
what fun it is to be an observer
and critic of nothing of merit
and be just another bush
shedding leaves in my master’s garden

20/10/16 Perseverance Road

941. As unfamiliar territory loomed across the horizon

As unfamiliar territory loomed across the horizon
questions arose
to the validity of victory versus experience
which gets more likes
cats or dogs video
or should we repost creative endeavours instead
just to fool proof the chance of alien life
viewing our priorities
as fools in action
who fear crossing the horizon
and merging with new and familiar territory

20/10/16 Perseverance Road

942. Easily the wind blows true

Easily the wind blows true
swaying the most steadfast objects
resisting change
yet still love strengthens
amidst forces of change
and grows beyond containment
spreading across an accepting landscape
raising us all to new heights

20/10/16 Perseverance Road

943. I heard a youthful voice

I heard a youthful voice
in the centre of the storm
sing my name just before I was swept away
and deposited out of reach
to solitude’s havoc

20/10/16 Perseverance Road

944. After viewing my favourite conspiracy site

Book 4. P. 37

After viewing my favourite conspiracy site
this morning
I realized the weeds in my garden
were plotting
to overtake firstly my life
then spread across
the horizon to destroy
democracy as we once knew it

21/10/16 Perseverance Road

945. Last time together

Book 4. P. 17

Last time together
never known
would have celebrated
life together
together
If had known
Now so long ago
if only said goodbye one lasting time
This empty space
could be filled with phantoms
maybe of you
maybe if not
maybe our shadows dancing together
in this mornings crying mist

Text: 21/10/16 Adelaide, South Australia
Photo: July 2007
Angkor Wat, Cambodia

“mornings crying mist
Book 4 'Thoughts in Patterns'

http://neuage.org/e-books/

946. Extremes merge blurry mirages

Extremes merge blurry mirages
muddled thoughts
if only could translate what I see
what magic would erupt

21/10/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia’

947. Change has no patience

Change has no patience
‘Hey wait for me’
we bellowed
as next moment different
created a stampede
through my once long ago
serene nonsensible life
now so far blown off course
that even my dreams are unable to mimic
the once were me
so peacefully dying in the alley
before change uprooted me
so I could be accountable to the beggar saints
bleeding in their repentance
over my once pure life
when I was free
not to be free
when it was all so simple
when I was no longer me
long ago before this change

21/10/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

948. I am the tree in the forest
I am the tree in the forest
that pledged to be the tallest
only to be the first chopped down
once I had achieved my goal

Text: 21/10/16 Adelaide, South Australia
Photo: August 2013
Big Canoe, Georgia 

“I am the tree in the forest”
Book 4 'Thoughts in Patterns'

http://neuage.org/e-books/

949. I was in flight

I was in flight
at the start of my journey
to you
when I realised my wings never were
which is the only
explanation I can give
as to why I am sprawled upon the pavement
looking up at you

21/10/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

950. Acting like a warrior king saint

Acting like a warrior king saint
the cactus in my garden
protected her kingdom
from lovers frolicking nearby
as well as giving love
to a nesting off-key gilded flicker

22/10/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

951. Quick decision
Quick decision
no time to evaluate
directions everywhere
nothing wrong
only change
what a thrill it will be
once around the next corner

22/10/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

952. We sacrificed routine on the altar of change

We sacrificed routine on the altar of change
so liberated
it is time to fly
never to land
forever air born
beyond routine’s enslavement

22/10/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

953. Trying to predict the future
Trying to predict the future
by counting clouds
I am a storm cloud reader
the future looks dark
with a chance of change in the future
and is all the prediction I am allowed to make

22/10/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

954. Instructions lost to where to being
Instructions lost to where to being
reassembled life
placing missed pieces
to the left of centre
misfitted forward motion
if only could find which direction
to put my next step
chances of feeling complete
possible yet not probable

23/10/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

955. Finished
Finished
such an end to all the plans come and gone
Starting
such excitement
Empty
life fill me now
with experiences so new

23/10/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

956. Phases without end
Phases without end
blended migrations of experience
today the sky is blue
and that is all that matters

23/10/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

957. Unappreciated
Unappreciated
the undiscovered misunderstood
Dawn
left as an underachieving world
withers and dies

23/10/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

958. We pushed through these hard times

Book 4. P. 86

We pushed through these hard times
to dream easily in this flower soaked meadow
that no one else could perceive
leaving us free beyond normal thought

23/10/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

959. Glazed over passing memory

Glazed over passing memory
if only could recall what we were
just to do so again

23/10/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

960. So easy to forget

So easy to forget
when now so full
what is remembered
is what could be tomorrow
delusion replaces illusion
neither are the same
both more interesting
than remembering
what I forgot

23/10/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

961. Memory drifting

Memory drifting
snippets appearing in clouds
going to string them all together
a necklace of memory clouds
to parachute with
Back to walking the streets again today

23/10/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

962. Little worthwhile was said

Book 4. P. 96

Little worthwhile was said in the forest this morning
Trees decided to dance away the day instead
as no humans came to visit
to hear them freely
serenading
cockatoos too

24/10/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia
Photos: August, 2013, Big Canoe, Georgia, USA
Cockatoos: Innes National Park, South Australia

963. I tripped and fell

I tripped and fell
in between the alleys
of right and wrong
spraining volumes of values
and creating a limp in my approach
to happiness

24/10/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

964. I upgraded my happiness to bliss

Book 4. P. 151

I upgraded my happiness to bliss
then settled in for
the long flight of retirement
After one day
I have no intention
of downgrading to happiness

Text: 24/10/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

965. Funny patterns flash shattered shadows

Book 4. P. 103

Funny patterns flashing scattered shattered shadows
across the wall of time
In the midst glowing with transcendent thought
I saw you beckoning me
to stop playing lost and rise above what could have been
and become like you
another shadow
flung across the wall of time

scattered shattered shadows
Book 4 'Thoughts in Patterns'
http://neuage.org/e-books/

Text: 24/10/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia
Photo: May, 2014 Golden Pebble Beach, Jinshitan, Dalian, China

966. There was never another way

There was never another way
than to run into the forest and hide from the intimidating
flame of desire
closing in from all sides
threating to eliminate
every and any sense
that could extinguish what remained
leaving us naked and blank

Text: 24/10/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

967. Hold the moment

Hold the moment
I need to change the momentum
reshuffled thoughts
the order of things has no boundaries
we will all be vanquished by someone else’s dream
All that will remain
what is left of sand castles
yet to be swept away by the sea
redistributing the moment
leaving nothing to rebuild the approaching moment
we all fall down

Text: 25/10/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

968. Sorry to see you leave

Sorry to see you leave
not sure what will be left
but whatever it is
thoughts of you
will make a cornerstone
to build a new upon

Text: 25/10/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

969. I cast myself forward

I cast myself forward
like a roll of a dice
taking this gamble
I call starting over

Text: 25/10/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

970. When the weeds in my garden

Book 4. P. 132

When the weeds in my garden
saw me with poison spray
running nakedly toward them
they quickly gathered magpies as mourners
leaving my war-torn dream fields no peace for my
Cycas Revoluta to flower

971. I watched snails racing across my garden

I watched snails racing across my garden
in search of friends amongst the weeds
reminding me
it was time to brick over my backyard
and put a statue of me in the middle
for birds of prey
to nest on
and sing my praise

26/10/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

971. So many steps yet left

So many steps yet left
when we get to the top
will the magic change our perception
that we are only halfway there

26/10/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

972. Sitting on my special cloud

Sitting on my special cloud
making plans to dissolv
e pretentious ideas
from manifesting as displaced hope
at the end of a trail
filled with one line jokes
that make no sense
And that fooled me into looking like this

26/10/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

973. I knew the way freedom seemed such a simple task

I knew the way freedom seemed such a simple task
comfort became the guiding voice
sidestepping the resistance
we bled easily
no further future fun would do

26/10/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

974. We all lined up

Book 4. P. 103
We all lined up excellent expectational expectations
Some chose analogous colours
Some chose impulsive noises
I chose a few isosceles triangles
We were not disappointed
as the sun set in praise of our choices
as she should

27/10/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

975. Wonders wild were lost

Wonders wild were lost
what could possibly be
nothing stood still
we fell of the planet
no one celebrated

27/10/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

976. At the end of the moment

At the end of the moment
when time wraps around herself
excluding well-wishers and dreamers
I saw a chance to escape
to join the circus
to fly through the air
to be myself
at the start of a new moment
I could control as my own

27/10/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

977. I gathered together my five favourite friends

Book 4. P. 146

I gathered together  
my five favourite friends
who were dead
and had a rather noisy party
with them
on a crowded tram
We had so much fun
that even the mayor
asked if she could join in
So of course
I gave her an invitation
for next time she died
to join us
too

Text: 27/10/16 Adelaide

#my_five_favourite_friends
Book 4 'Thoughts in Patterns'
http://neuage.org/e-books/

978. I fear that by stopping

I fear that by stopping
to think of you
I will disappear too

27/10/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

979. Such good news

Such good news
never could go along with
bad news
mediocre news makes me cranky
no news gives me hives
conspiracy news gives us a laugh
sporting news makes me sleepy
political news is stupid
but this good news
that today is another day
is just great news

28/10/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

980. Suspended excitement until high tide

Suspended excitement until high tide
to flout out to sea
and leave this planet behind
again

28/10/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

981. Unable to move forward

Unable to move forward
I fell through a hole beneath my feet
and came out fifty years later
searching for my youth that had run off
with the circus
long before I fell

28/10/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

982. I stocked up on magical memory moments

I stocked up on magical memory moments
to sustain me during the storm
with nowhere to hide
I lost my grip
as memories washed out to sea
leaving me empty
to create new ones

28/10/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

983. I got halfway through a shortened thought

I got halfway through a shortened thought
when I became lost in a hyper thought
that swept me off my feet
propelling tomorrow
with me screaming inside
into space
confused
once again

28/10/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

984. Rapidly rotating random love

Rapidly rotating random love
free flowing flung far
with no anchor
lost at sea I will always be

28/10/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

985. I have nothing more to remember you by

I have nothing more to remember you by
than to walk
the streets you once believed would lead you
to being free
but only made you free of this life

28/10/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

986. The weeds in my garden

Book 4. P. 27
The weeds in my garden
mistook me as a dog
and peed on me

29/10/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

987. While pretending to be

Book 4. P. 127

While pretending to be
someone  else
someone else
pretending to be me
was crying in the alley
I offered my condolence
he ran and pretended
to be someone else
leaving me in the alley
to pretend to be me
Alone again

Text: 29/10/16 Adelaide ~ Photo: 17/07/14 Hong Kong

988. We tried following the wind

We tried following the wind
losing her at first in a tunnel
then catching up
tree tops
Outback
along coastal cliffs
I filled my balloon with her
grabbed on
cloud merging
you the wind and me
so far yet to travel
and I have yet
to get out of bed

29/10/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

989. In a playful serenading performance

In a playful serenading performance
the nuclear warhead
merged with people filled of lesser ideals
changing the reluctant peasants into cosmic dust
for no one left to applaud

29/10/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

990. On my journey from your toes to your lips

On my journey from your toes to your lips
I lost my way
yet still I refuse to use a GPS
or text you for directions
while driving
on such curves

29/10/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

991. I saw you in my kitchen window

Book 4. P. 60
I saw you in my kitchen window
appearing in my lost train of thought
whilst making my kale smoothie
I knew it was you
when you laughed at my healthy ways
then disappeared into the rainy morning mist
like you did from my life so long ago
that I forget why I try to stay healthy
except to clearly see you
in these passing glimpses of who we were
once we were one
appearing without notice so random

30/10/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

992. So different

So different
never knowing
always guessing
the equation
never understood
time to change the last line
no making sense

30/10/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

993. While counting the stars in the sky

While counting the stars in the sky
I lost track of why you left me in darkness
giving me a moment of freedom
without your memory
crowding my every thought
keeping me from counting the stars in the sky

30/10/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

994. Chance without choice

Chance without choice
lucky dip
another night out on the town
tomorrow morning
time to go
in another direction
chance without choice

31/10/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

995. I hung onto this month

I hung onto this month
until not another
moment to go
knowing it was all beyond
what another month could possibly endure

31/10/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

996. Wondering where you went

Wondering where you went
can you sense me
searching for you
now that you left your body behind
box of ashes
not describing
the moment we met

31/10/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

997. The stats are in
Bk 4. P. 62

The stats are in
data crunched
no facts left out
love for you
greater than ever

01/11/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

998. Continued stopped continued

Continued stopped continued
following my heart beat
the weeds in my garden
hoped to be in sync with me
as if we were friends
but their little scheme did not work
which came to light
when I dug them up
and sent them of as landfill
for the new cardiology hospital to be built upon

01/11/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

999. From most to least

From most to least
celebrating missing pieces to this puzzle
what does not appear
reflected in a song
that was popular long ago
forgotten by most
but easily soothes the missing piece
from most to least

02/11/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

1000. Replaced now with then

Replaced now with then
travel interrupted
if I could find the way back
I still would not start again
happily living then as now
being the only one living like that
makes me feel
out of place
living then as now

02/11/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

1001. Mistakes filtering through so much perfection

Mistakes filtering through so much perfection
few options but to evolve through broken patterns
Hello new morning

02/11/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

1002. Laid here thinking how great it would be

Laid here thinking how great it would be
if I were up doing instead
so I raised to the occasion
swimming across time
wishing I had remained
back when I was only thinking

02/11/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

1003. Back up plans

Back up plans
life sent into space
earth re-booted
tomorrow again

02/11/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

1004. Today passed by without incident

Today passed by without incident
like fasting for a religious holiday
tomorrow will fill up on
too much
to process
today
with forever
yet to process

02/11/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

1005. Unable to lead

Unable to lead
unable to follow
circling myself
So dizzy I spin out of control
and fall to the ground

02/11/16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

1006. On a non-creative day

Book 4. P. 153

On a non-creative day
god created the universe
can’t wait to be a part of a creative day
perhaps even my writing
will make sense
then

Text: 02/November 16 Adelaide, Australia
Photo:  July, 2010,
Skerries, Dublin, Ireland (Elephant: March, 2016, Chiang Rai, Thailand

1007. Fed up with my greeting the dawn with

Book 4. P. 152

Fed up with my greeting the dawn
with pithy positive motivational gibberish
the weeds in my garden
gathered together
in a heroic entanglement around my feet
bring me crashing to their level of existence
with my tidy word-structures breaking across
my garden
crushing all hope I had envisioned
of yet another enlightened day

Text: 03/November 16 Adelaide, Australia
Doll from my aunty brought back from China in the 1930s

pithy positive motivational gibberish
Book 4 'Thoughts in Patterns'

http://neuage.org/e-books/

1008. Bouncing meanings landed

Bouncing meanings landed
edge of a cliff
as I went over
not knowing why

Text: 03/November 16 Adelaide, Australia

 

1009. Excited by the news of innovation

Book 4. P. 116

Excited by the news of innovation
Robotic futures
3D love
Satisfaction enhanced
Cool implants
Spiritual awakening
Fountains of youth
Millions of online friends
and other crap
I went back to bed to sleep through
your future

Text: 03/November 16 Adelaide, Australia
Photo: July, 2008 hotel lobby - Ho Chi Minh City

1010. Left behind

Left behind
a forward-thinking proposal
waited for the alleged winners
to fall through the hole
in absence

Text: 03/November 16 Adelaide, Australia

1011. Inconsistent dreams

Inconsistent dreams
made marginal lovers
appear as victorious warriors
and once featured lovers
as Christmas ornaments
in my night

Text: 03/November 16 Adelaide, Australia

1012. In an empty corner of time

In an empty corner of time
I lost track of space
which was fun
until matter
collided with reason
leaving me in despair

Text: 03/November 16 Adelaide, Australia

1013. Collections laying alongside the street

Collections laying alongside the street
for rubbish pickup
decades of gathering
each piece once so special
soon landfill for the new casino
so others can gamble
their life’s savings
rather than make collections of things
to only end up one day
for rubbish collection
at your door

Text: 04/November 16 Adelaide, Australia

1014. I was improving daily so rapidly

I was improving daily so rapidly
that I slept through
a week to jumpstart
my life
now in a coma
I realise how wrong I was

Text: 04/November 16 Adelaide, Australia

1015. Wonderful whereabouts

Wonderful whereabouts
wishes wandered with regard
when I awoke
the world was gone

Text: 04/November 16 Adelaide, Australia

1016. With the end of humanity

With the end of humanity
life will once again
evolve to perfection
as it was long before
humans evolved
to where we can all die together

Text: 04/November 16 Adelaide, Australia

1017. Observation for the moment

Observation for the moment
trails cutting
if I could follow
this alley would be so much more
interesting

04/November 16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

1018. We told stories

We told stories
long past listening time
nothing was true
the listening was superb
in our newly captured world
nothing else existed
not even this coming troubled times

05/November 16 Cudly Creek, Adelaide, South Australia

1019. Inside outside

Inside outside
turned upside down
all this is left
flown away

05/November 16 Cudlee Creek, Adelaide, South Australia

1020. Unbelievable choices

Unbelievable choices
now the brothel is empty
while the canal
fills with lost hope

05/November 16 Cudlee Creek, Adelaide, South Australia

1021. While thinking of stores to write

While thinking of stores to write
possible real ones
passed by
with no chance
of their capture
Especially this one

05/November 16 Cudlee Creek, Adelaide, South Australia

1022. Another great start to the day

Another great start to the day
the news was off
comedians lined up at my door
Cinderella, Snow white
Iron Man and a politician or two
appeared without notice
I gave them all
a tofu sandwich
we went outside
played in the garden
then it was time
for bed

06/November 16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

1023. Unable to fathom what we wanted

Unable to fathom what we wanted
despair ran away
leaving this vacuum
with empty promises

06/November 16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

1024. Knowing the difference

Knowing the difference
left little to my imagination
but still the dreams rolled by
none of which
made a difference

06/November 16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

1025. Settled confusion

Settled confusion
security surrounds my belief in anarchy
to bury this peaceful change
once again
so liberating

06/November 16 Perseverance Road, Adelaide, South Australia

1026. In an unpredictable moment

In an unpredictable moment
my pen went out of ink
leaving my page blank
thoughts to wander
and the day unfulfilled

07/November 16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

1027. I cheered for the losing side

I cheered for the losing side
knowing like my life
how quickly
all but the winner is forgotten

07/November 16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

1028. To make today different

To make today different
was easier than a collapsing galaxy
but more difficult
than love lost in the alley

07/November 16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

1029. In the alley behind the local robotic brothel

In the alley behind the local robotic brothel
I lost all desire
in a moment
of hypertextual surrender
at a fraction of the code
needed for sustainable love

07/November 16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

1030. We could have been fantastic together

We could have been fantastic together
if it were not for the end of all life
as was once known
on this planet

07/November 16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

1031. Fortunate for my imagination

Book 4. P. 135

Fortunately for my imagination
rational thinking
left me long ago

Text: 07/11/16 Vista, South Australia Photo: 05/11/16 Cudlee Creek, Adelaide http://neuage.org/e-books/

The National Museum of Anthropology Mexico City

1032. Long before there was an after

Long before there was an after
we believed there was no alternative to forever
sun set morning rose
the alternative
I found
me without you
forever again

08/November 16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

1033. We were in a hurry

We were in a hurry
time stood still
we didn’t
heart stopped
easy to pretend
we were in sync
until no one was left
to hear our screams

08/November 16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

1034. Concerned tomorrow would bend over

Concerned tomorrow would bend over
backward
for my perceived change about to begin
I hid amongst the gravestones
believing I would be overlooked
How wrong I was
tomorrow never came

08/November 16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

1035. Shocked by the unbelievability

Shocked by the unbelievability
of results
we surrendered
in hope that a magical mist
would replace
our tears of lose

09/November 16 Perseverance Road, Vista, South Australia

1036. No matter the chaos

Book 4. P. 136

No matter the chaos humans create
summer cannot be removed
nor the waking dawn
nor us together
free to be
no matter the chaos

09/November, 2016 Vista, South Australia

No matter the chaos
Book 4 'Thoughts in Patterns'

http://neuage.org/e-books/

1037. Facing a new direction
Facing a new direction
casting the wind aside
a mirage of happiness
hugging the horizon
we all rush to partake
only to fall in despair
fools all the way
never to know
when when it is too late

09/November, 2016 Vista, South Australia

1038. In search of a happy thought
In search of a happy thought
I went deep and far away
being alone in space
I found peace
but no one to share it with

09/November, 2016 Vista, South Australia

1039. All so new
All so new
features of today

·        Repeat same sun

·        Recycled clouds

·        Fast moving hours

But yet again
all so new

10/November, 2016 Vista, South Australia

1040. Goodnight to the morning
it will all so soon
change without notice

10/November, 2016 Vista, South Australia

1042. The once was the way

The once was the way
of doing other
than what is
being done now
no longer applies
so I will dance
alone along
this broken alley
one more time

10/November, 2016 Vista, South Australia

1043. Too sleepy to conquer the world

Too sleepy to conquer the world
for now
I will put my shoes on the garden path
with the hope of once inside
of then
I will easily reach your destination

11/November, 2016 Vista, South Australia

1044. Too short the time

Too short the time
magic withers
blows away
falling desire
no time to get up
to surrender
just enough time
to die in peace

11/November, 2016 Vista, South Australia

1045. I reached upward

I reached upward
outward
beyond words
special space
nowhere left
but still in-route
never to arrive

12/November, 2016 Vista, South Australia

1046. Found songs

Found songs
sitting on a cliff
pushed them over
to a lonely grave

12/November, 2016 Vista, South Australia

1047. First one here

Book 4. P. 153

First one here
before the battle
before the storm
before the hoax revealed not believed
Everyone else drunk at the brothel
So I returned to a 3D printed copy
of the way ‘once-so-good’
to live out my days
in a brave-old-world

13/11/16 Vista, South Australia

“hoax revealed not believed”
Book 4 'Thoughts in Patterns'
http://neuage.org/e-books/

1048. Squeezed too much

Book 4. P. 63

Squeezed too much
Broke final transparent moment
Solid > Liquid > Air > Summer-Perfume
PUFF
All gone
Just a ghost
Hashtagging your
evanescent memories

Text: 13/11/16 Vista, South Australia
Photo: April, 2007 Grand Central Station, NYC during filming of 
I Am Legend

1049. Morning compromised

Morning compromised
with yesterday
no sun rise
until we are fulfilled satisfactorily
again

13/11/16 Vista, South Australia

1050. Tip-toed through her garden

Book 4. P. 155

Tip-toed through her garden
so as not to wake the weeds
sleeping
dreaming
of being bellowing blossoming
bougainvilleas
Though now fallen upon them
the weeds grieve
as all woken from mistaken dreams
we often do

13/11/16 Vista, South Australia

‘Tip-toed through her garden
Book 4 'Thoughts in Patterns'
http://neuage.org/e-books/

1051. Not sure what I feel is in-line

Book 4. P. 154

Not sure what I feel is in-line
with ancient cave-dwelling thinking
though with our new leaders
it should be

13/11/16 Vista, South Australia

1052. Winds blew my ripped-up memories

Winds blew my ripped-up memories
across a shredded landscape
in a most decluttered
moment

13/11/16 Vista, South Australia

1053. We surrendered at the border

We surrendered at the border
knowing dawn
would try us for treason
after evening captured
our desires
with fulfillment in our eyes

14/11/16 Vista, South Australia

1054. @ the end

@ the end
it all came to this
you now in the ground
or not
We watched you disappear
What a strange custom death is
In the future
when it is outlawed
they will question
why so many people
bothered to die
when after all
it was just once such a strange custom to do

14/11/16 Vista, South Australia

1055. Parallel lives

Parallel lives
intersecting
Your breath
my desires
merging magical moments
No thoughts of eternity
now forever all we have

15/11/16 Vista, South Australia

1056. You were reading

You were reading
I was dreaming
two drifters
worlds apart
unaware
we are
that is left

15/11/16 Vista, South Australia

1057. Thawed loneliness

Thawed loneliness
in a frozen crowd
chasing dreams
in a circle
sun hidden
clouds alerted
to this failure
I call my life

15/11/16 Vista, South Australia

1058. Same words

Same words
changed meaning
interpretation
begging for change
on the street corner
another moment
of hunger
before starvation

15/11/16 Vista, South Australia

 

 

 

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---------------------past stuff never used-------------

1.    Like any good audience

Book 3. P. 7

Like any good audience
we are still waiting
for the punch line
2000 years later

Written: 17-12-93 Victor Harbor, South Australia

2.      Being with you
is my greatest natural resource

9-20-78 Lutherville Maryland

3.      You had a choice
You had a choice why didn’t you stay
You had my touch
why did you take it
You had our memories
why did they
have to be buried with you

Written: 1-13-89 Port Elliot

4.    Those beliefs that you defended so fiercely all your life

Book 3. P. 140 part of a group

Those beliefs that you defended so fiercely all your life
Now that yours is over
do they still
have meaning for you too

Written: 4-1-94 victor

5.    I still call my six-foot thirteen-year-old

I still call my six-foot thirteen-year-old
my little boy
I still call this rapidly expanding suburb
my country home
I still call this world my safe little planet
I still call
but no one answers

9-17-94 Victor

6.    Anger toward you to create a villain

Anger toward you to create a villain
so I can chain the masked stranger
who calls for you in my heart

3-3-86 Mt. Compass

7.    I tried to duplicate the me

Book 3. P. 29

I tried to duplicate the me
who I was when I first met you
by looking for a copy of you
in imitative illusions
of broken mirrored memories
of when first I met you

Written: 9-22-89 Pt. Elliot, South Australia

8.    Chilly chilly Pass the spring please
Book 3. P. 92

Chilly chilly Pass the spring please
Shiver shiver give me another dash of summer
freezy freezy pass some loving warmth again
thank you

February 28 1972 NYC

9.    I enjoy entertaining my fantasies

I enjoy entertaining my fantasies
may I entertain you

10-68 Los Angeles

10.                   I counted on you to raise the flag

Book 3. P. 31

I counted on you to raise the flag
call the press
sound the salute
But you just made a dress out of it
and walked down the street
to turn a trick in it

11-15-71 NYC

11.                   And when they said it was going to rain

Book 3. P. 49

And when they said it was going to rain
the clouds got together
and went to the market
to buy glass
to make windows
for the sun to shine through
in rainbows of hope

12.                   I wrote your name

I wrote your name
on my pillowcase
to hear more clearly
your whispers
in my dreams

Written: 21 April 1995, Hackham, South Australia

13.                   I like the way you look

Book 3. P. 111

I like the way you look
at my nakedness
and imagine
how it would cover you

Written: 12 January 1995, Hackham, South Australia

14.                   Magic was in your eye

Magic was in your eye
I became a rabbit
jumping in and out of hats
but you made me disappear
Now I look into everyone’s eyes
to see if anyone has the magic
to bring me back
to before you made me disappear

Written: 3/07/1994 Victor Harbor SA

15.                   It wasn’t my wanting you so

It wasn’t my wanting you so
that made me go crazy
it was your not wanting me
that made me go crazy

Written: 3/07/1994 Victor Harbor SA

16.                   Like any man playing with his trucks

Book 4. P. 135

from webpage

Like any man playing with his trucks
and earth moving equipment
I like to drive
up and down your
thighs
ankles
breasts
face
karma
neck
dreams
creating new highways
freeways
byways
to get from your toes to your nose
in rush hour traffic

Terrell Neuage April 05 - 12 199 Photo: Neuage - Mekong Delta, Viet Nam. July 2006

17.   Another morning waking
Another morning waking
with you

what a kaleidoscope
of wonder your nature is.

 
 

© Terrell Neuage 1998 Adelaide SA

18.                   When I whispered

From webpage http://www.neuage.org/picture_poems/drinking.html

When I whispered
to the trees
along the boulevard
outside the cafes
yesterday evening
about the night before
with you
They embarrassed me
by whistling back
loudly
and out of tune
in front of the patrons
drinking cappuccino
along the boulevard
in the rain.

1992Victor Harbor South Australia

19.                   I got so angry

I got so angry

my dream exploded

now they’ll never come true. Will you?

Bombs dropping continually

exploding myths of eternal life.

Where the bombs don’t land snipers caress

the spring air.

There will be no new blossoming here

In the shelters children plan the rest

of their lives.

‘Two-minutes from now I’ll eat. Four-minutes from now

I will kiss my mother’s tears goodbye

Six-minutes from now I’ll open my arms

to the American mortar fire in front of my mother’.

 

20.                   “Wall to wall dreams

“Wall to wall dreams
gave no room to hang a mirror”

Jan 13th 1974

 







 

 

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