Calliope
Shining steaming metal going round and round puffing bursting panting shaping brilliant sound tickling magical memories from days of sunny youth a wondrous carnival moment with shrill whistling oomph cotton […]
Tag Archives: Ethics
Really I Don’t
You think you’re required to keep my world afloat well I got news for you cause I really don’t I really don’t need you telling me what to do I […]
Count Down: 26 Days Left
March 18, 2012 is when I began my “Post-a-Day” commitment – and it feels like it was more than 339 days ago! Here we are in the final stretch of daily thinking […]
How to Tell if You Live in Poverty.
I have been hearing the economic whinging of others in the last few months. Maybe even a few years. Mostly the complaints are the tragedy of ‘un-met wants’ and not having the […]
Rick Mercer: Snow Day Rant
Cause a snow day is a part of growing up Canadian: It should be on a stamp!
Monday Again
Wow. Monday here once more in my living room. Happens to me every week yet it still surprises me when it arrives. Monday morning all dark and gloomy beeping at […]
Midden Heap of Thoughts
These words languish alone on the page unread unvoiced unrhymed hollowed out devoid of meaning if a poem is posted and there is no one near by to read it […]
Deep Quotes for the Blues
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let […]
Skin on Skin
here we lie entangled akimbo soft warmth of january thaw fresh in our glowing flesh sheets rumpled in sweat sweet salty scent of passion wrapped inside each breath each touch […]
Oubliette
oubliette: a secret place of imprisonment, usually with only one opening in the top. In a world of instant maps I am suddenly adrift without even a tiger unable to find […]
Indifferent
For good or bad it doesn’t matter there is no measure carefully applied anywhere between us that can yield a significant result within the bounded error of tolerance untransmutable insubstantial […]
Just Fine
You stop and say hello vacantly unsure you ask me polite questions and I answer ‘just fine’ which really mostly some of the time is the truth and that is […]
Stage Fright
All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts… William […]
Walking Carrion
Round me circle the crows and the badgers smelling of blood – and death walking near me. Their feast that awaits is all that matters Their eagerness brings great comfort […]
So Good for Nothing
It’s the way I live my life the way I’ll always be nothing will ever change me cause I’m just good for nothing Always good for nothing that’s the way […]
Charade
You signal your intentions without any sound at all simple hand gestures flowing through the air your eyes brilliant mesmerizing flames willing my understanding words unspoken meaning projected into undulations […]
Broken Down
Seemed so clear when it began destination explicitly marked – no possibility of any hidden duplicity yet here we are lost again in the middle of a no where land […]
After the Feast
I am the uninvited guest hovering on the sidelines intruding on conversations lingering too near You would ask me to leave if you did’t have to look me in the […]
Fatal Realization
You are the bright light of my miserable existence each moment with you delight I am lost in your presence Your eyes enthrall my mind and soul make me believe […]
Babbling Fool
Inspiration possesses me much to my torment to dispense poetic verse at the oddest moment words rattle in my mind in random combinations spilling out to form unexpected permutations worst […]
Archangel of My Own
Mystical tradition holds forth the seven Archangels ruling the seven heavens above Gabriel the voice bearer Michael the sword wielder Raphael the healing touch Uriel the keeper of words Selaphiel […]
All Saints Day
yesterday we played dress up and visited strangers knocking on doors in the darkness yesterday we placed candles inside jack-o-lanterns scaring away the demons and the dread yesterday we gathered […]
Trick and Treat
Tonight I will knock on your door and make you scream Tonight I will sneak inside and make you quiver Tonight I will lock the doors and never let you […]
Wet Caress
This grey autumn rain has soaked us through leaving us shivering in the October winds Home we tumble inside door barely closed we strip off the damp and turn up […]
Fucking Pissed
Warning contains swear words. Just in case you are eff’ing offended by bad language Some days I should stay in bed and just rest my damned weary head still I […]
Life Lessons
Every day Every hour so many ways life teaches me yet another lesson of what it means to be alive and oh so ordinary I’ve learned I don’t matter and […]
Discovering Gravity
love had me feeling free flying high in the sky feeling fine with the time when suddenly rejected dejected from elated to deflated balloon burst feeling cursed now hurtling down […]
Golden October
Autumn in all her glory rains bright painted leaves across the fading grass Morning brings frost on rooftops sound of window scrappers Cold dark Cold wind Cold rain makes us […]
Kiss Me Slowly
Why on this earth are you over there alone in your thoughts reading poetry like it has secrets to enjoying living Slide over here look in my eyes see the […]
Reluctant
There is no bloody way you will ever make me change my mind You can go to hell and back again tell me of pain suffering tribulation overcome defeated subjugated […]
It’s Wet Out There.
Autumn rain splatters against our panes cold wet drops dribbling scribbling see-through smears against the darkness pulling me into melancholy of the season. You move to where I stand and […]
Stellar
twinkle and spark walking home alone in the dark I see your distant light and dearly wish it was mine.
My Point is Simply…
life is simply not half empty not half full it is simply no more no less than simply that it is simply for living simply for enjoying simply for loving […]
Tea Leaves
Oolong Assam Keemun Black Boiling kettle knock on door come on in sit a spell catch me up have a cup Won’t you stay have another? English Jasmine Irish Green […]
Darkest Before Waking
3:29 am Insomnia kicks me awake lying there staring at the time I am clock mocked by the tick-tock double-talk of elusive sleep the threat of immenient alarm blinking in […]
Undesired
Culled much to soon debudded before anything could even bloom carted off to the compost bouquet left to decay turned over turned under shredded beheaded embedded unwedded weeded defeated labelled […]
Ultimately Solo
My love is certainly unbounded knows no limits or constraints it flows from hidden wells inside reaching out to draw you near We are born alone and look for more […]
Cruelty
comfortable familiarity holds us close warm embrace happy memory building trust to whisper look I am vulnerable here and here until anger turns soft touch to stinging slap on wounds […]
Tipped Over
fine line balanced on edge nudged slightly spinning from delicate order into chaos Related articles Chaos Theory: Four more essential Secret World tips (massively.joystiq.com) How Much Should You Tip at […]
Startled
lost in my own world deep in thought shrouded fog i didn’t see you heading my way until too late we startled created titanic collision of unsinkable verses unshakable cool […]
Thanksgiving Day in Canada
Happy Thanksgiving day. Just enjoying the bounty of the day, and of my country. Today is about gratitude and thinking of the marvels of the world. I wake up in […]
Cold Reality
Harvest moon fading away leaves twirling to the ground time moves forward circles in circles rhythms in rhythms layers on layers every day thematic deja vu of yesterday last week […]
Schmetterling
You drifted across my thoughts hovering right there softly fluttering just at the edge touching my perception so I thought I heard you whisper my name… and when I turned […]
Chocolate
Come here let me share rich dark melting kisses of raw flavor filling our mouths with ecstasy… And after we are done maybe then we can have some chocolate. Related […]
Carcinogen
I breathed you in deep inside me felt you change me anabolic metabolic metamorphic vitriolic you took me over inside out subsumed me consumed me so I couldn’t get you […]
Side Lined
I wanted to be front stage centre stage caught in the spotlight rising up to lofty height showing of my inner fire getting all I could desire Yet here I […]
Totally Irrelevant
Summer time situation of sweet simmering heat coming to fruition ripening thickening blood boiling quickening taste of you on my tongue smell of you inside me head overwhelmingly prevalent definitely […]
Shameless
You make me want things I never knew I wanted You make me feel things I never knew I could feel You could make me do things I’ve never dared […]
Nothing to See
I was enjoying this view when I stumbled across you You smiled that beguiling way then refused to even stay nothing to see you tell me nothing to see yet […]
Standard Deviation
(Statistics): the spread of data about a mean value. The more spread the higher the deviation. The meaning of you eludes my understanding your distinct variables disproving my hypothesis by […]
