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poetry by Paul J. Markowski | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I've been writing poetry for several years and have self-published two small collections: The Ivory Rose and Owl's Sight & Unicorn's Speech. I am curently working on a new collection entitled Ambient Words. Here are a few selections: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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old quavers fall like rain in april refreshing the musictree young Buds spring open each with four strings their fresh music wafts on air like an energetic perfume |
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everybody's was the same and the solitary were in mounds while the military heard these sounds as the stationary were the hounds in winter's moonlight singing rounds but winter's light was unable to banish the darkness i can not read your handwriting i am only illiterate in the dark |
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frozen frosted flickering flame deluminating the lightness of Cosmos consuming the allure of Cosmos |
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climbing from the earth-blue cardle playing the phoenician-purple tambourine dancing the simian-conscience ballet plotting exotic trajectories to land on unfamiliar shores navigating by the Star that rises from the horizon of the heart and crosses the zenith of the mind |
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hurry, the Star sets and may never return, meanwhile monkey-wars fuel the freezing frosting unwavering flame |
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in order to sustain their place in time they would fill the silent place in their big Brains with solid ambient words seeds to live expand grow fully shimmering foliage each leaf a subtle syllable converting light into sounds of time poems |
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happyman happyman where have you been? i've been out playing and having some sin! happyman happyman why have you gone? i've been a riding and singing life's song! happyman happyman what can you say? i've had better than the best fanny may! happyman happyman how do you feel? like bumpy and humpy and her happy squeal! |
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approach Music in mature mental preconceptions it will be forced down the tight channel of the ear vibrating tiny bones revealing nothing approach Music as a Child minddoor open it will expand beyond ears shake the imagination and can reveal universes |
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word s cum and words go d amnow aluf uck eck ack now ledge dtobework ing ongr eat lexi con dumb s word |
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not just apes topoftheline apes the ones with the Big Brains they know who they are playing with fire water air dirt (dust brains dirty hands opposable thumbs and all) thinking big thoughts to achieve a pseudoseparation from their Mother riding their invention to a level of esc ape higher than their Siblings big thoughts deceive they believe their own myths so on their fantasy planet they're the power controlling unlimited wealth but Mother knows the altitude is a Big Brain lie Siblings don't submit, they share the real planet the brainy apes are forced to sit in a tiny corner of the Universe |
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renewal time! out of death comes re-life out of fertility comes new life young Sun plays in fresh sky (newly painted with Nature's water colors) spraying us with warm beams to burn gray fog from mindeyes sweet breezes fill lungs carry the ancient ditty from Pan's pipes to mindears stirring (nearly frozen) juices warming blood expands thru bodies loitering in loins thus we interlock ourselves form the eternal circle and kick-up the Gigue 'round the Greatgrandtree |
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Life is Stupid | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
the ? to an swer (quote oar un)quote hu men soul s "where is god 's [ of faith & / or my(th) ] d welling place, my(your) mind or he(she)art" the ! of anthro pomorp hic ape s & holy water's burble & [ dusty hands raised hi gh (hic) ] f (wr)aithful proffers obt use (yet stern) silence |
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this book is stupid if you buy it you're stupid if you don't you're stupid the poet was stupid when he wrote it he would have been stupid if he didn't stupidity is chaos the natural state of the universe is chaos humanity believes in control churches and governments teach (thru separation of humans and nature) control of nature control of humans control of life control is a myth canard lie chaos can't be controlled life can't be controlled stupidity can't be controlled the universe expands entropy increases stupidity grows grows grows we haven't lost control you can't loose what you never had all we have is stupid do not despair do not lament you unloss of control take solace no effort is required to not control no pain can afflict the uncontrolled no plans are required for noncontrol to be stupid is to be free revel in your stupidity |
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o he who comes before the nite preceding the lite of Lady Ix-Chel began this brite Tree's creation the glory and power were there exploited to the fullest straining under the weight of privilege the Ahau was sick even before the Tree led barbarians to the land of King-Forests and tho they claim a holy victory Xibalba already had a claim and a literate humanity fell into the open maw |
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this is a work of fiction The Facts are gone they fled on little hairy pseudopods running as fast as evaporated snow dodging the curious eye bucking up straight and lifting little defiant fingers to the sky as they left now that they are gone the void has been filled by lies that sneak and squeak like rats moving into our walls and floors (blocking our doors) living off of our refuse they grow their faces metamorphize before our minds' eyes (from twisted black to bent gray to curved white to straight gold) until we behold The Facts |
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today we are interspersed spread out thin as atmosphere our atoms mingling with the long photons of light (we avoid the dark shadows) now at day this day Moon and Sun take a side step as part of their long dance when they embrace and dip the dark invades our day a glowing ring of fire invades our sky we loose our thin atoms thinning more their(our) smallness is accented by the long dark and now we are interspersed with cool space and star heat |
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the true test of time a seam between years this is where Möbius Twist |
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