everything is gradual
everything is eventual then it's happening --
we're moving in circles at a steady pace
the city got new search-lights pointing at the sky
looking for a miracle in the clouds hanging there
worried about the things they've got to do,
like the war on terror, H1N1, your money and it's true
everyone wishes the rain would break
the high tide, the flooding for god's sake
what are we going to do?
with a predilection for an immediate look
from any third eye cave -
i am in that t…
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Added by jeRRy whaLLey on November 21, 2009 at 10:17pm —
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my noir apotheosis
"We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are." -- Anais Nin
my banal original
left ordinary impressions
on the surface of your eyes; stanzas you couldn't
get out of your mind playing carpe diem
chasing your memories romantically
while you held fast to recognized patterns,
you'd say anything with a cigarette
hanging from your lip: tempus fugit
those wisps accent your spent look;
something frozen, dead winter,
caught by the Sun, melted, a haze of ste…
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The Stones in 75
Jamming about shelter
Social heat
Began to swelter
A tad bit shy
Of Helter Skelter
High School daze
Chills along my spine
As I relive them on YouTube
Pam’s satin hand
Gently clasped in mine
Feeling fine
Permanent friends
Never to forget
The years have blistered by
Children having children
Concept we call life
Void of obvious strife
It snuck in through the back door
I’ll die a happy man
Knowing it was all a dream
Come true………
© Bill Grimes Jr. 2009
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Added by bill grimes jr on October 24, 2009 at 10:04am —
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Spatial verve
Social disadvantage
Harbinger of joy
Drives his latest toy
Stuff
Can be replaced
No price tag on extortion
To focus on reprieve
So hard to achieve
Legions roam
Bewildered
Shuffling abroad
Begrudgingly applaud
Those who persevere
Epitome of cool
A calculated risk
Lingering kiss
The crux
Of pleasantry
© Bill Grimes Jr. 2009
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Added by bill grimes jr on October 22, 2009 at 6:35pm —
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I feel I've been hanging by a thread -- though I hung from a windy-tree, the icy-rain deformed me; I swung in thunderous reverie, did-see the roots and mud entwined to form the scruples of my mind; there, the Runes in bone-clad dead made the language of my head and formed the magic of its ...fire, rhymes that seared with my desire; my end-times -- our words are created by misery and joy, in the language we convey, our Monsters and Saints - hanging in there ...
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Lazy Sunday evening
October 2009
Days of 100 proof
Overkill indeed
So grateful they’re behind me now
Extreme behavior
Trademark of rebellion
Deftly woven
Throughout my DNA
Microscope of truth
Glaring irony
I lived to tell about
Blessings
God’s grand reprieve
Stage set for a showdown
Conscious
Versus ego
The outcome
Preordained
Holy destiny
Not hard to understand
Grace
Effortless gift
Void of mortal pride
I drift
Subtle revelations
Journey to His light
Magnificent flight
© Bill Grimes Jr. 2009
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Added by bill grimes jr on October 11, 2009 at 7:22pm —
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Onset of delusion
Roadmap to insanity
Mighty hill to conquer
For those who see beyond
Life is but a play
Not meant for understanding
Far from picket fences
Three car garages
Elementary rite
Words of ascension
Baby steps required
Aging Narcissism
Replaced by quiet calm
Silent chuckle
Deep inside my soul
I watch with amusement
Follow faithfully
Gradual progress
Satisfaction
Slow
But sweet
Poetic legacy
Blueprint of my trip
My world
Revolves around His grace
As it should be
© Bill Grimes Jr. 200…
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Added by bill grimes jr on October 7, 2009 at 7:37pm —
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At times
I feel I’ll buckle
Crumple under crushing loneliness
Misery
Choice of vast proportion
Controlled by my attitude
Blessed with friends aplenty
Strength
Pipeline from divine energy
Hardly worthy
But grateful nonetheless
Distinct rhythm
Flows within my soul
As I’m growing old
This battle
Always takes its toll
But pales
Beside my past mistakes
Harmony I seek
Arrives in increments
Precious sentiments
Warm thoughts
Natural progression
Life as it comes
Love
From the strangest circumstances
New…
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Added by bill grimes jr on October 6, 2009 at 5:27pm —
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To ponder consciousness
Altered states
Dreamscape reality
The why
Far outweighs the when
How it all began
Self discipline
Hardly a prerequisite
Merely lubrication
Mental strain prescription
Life
Lived in increments
One day at a time
The only way for me
Weary eyes
Suddenly
Begin to see
© Bill Grimes Jr. 2009
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Added by bill grimes jr on October 3, 2009 at 10:37am —
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some don't get the emotions, see them as cliche', while the root of the problem is the heart I must say -- where we begin in our Mother's water place, the beat of her life, made ours by grace -- the pedagogues 'n pip-squeaks don't get the emotion that leaks from the pen, as longing, as aching, as yearning in unbearable swells, again 'n again -- they've never birthed in bursting strife, their suffering 'n joy of life
we are the foam on the sea of reality, where the roiling of Natures longing tak…
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we breath life into language which we construe with semantics and syntactical alliances until it needs to be said or is a lovely song but mostly flung out there into a crowded starry sky to fly or fall, that's all -- I learn a lot from my still-born writes as much, if not more, than those that never get a stare -- it all gets recycled in the cauldron of my heart, boiling with fires too hot for knowledge or understanding, spewing forth with plasma graces where they flow to my pen again and again…
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Added by jeRRy whaLLey on September 1, 2009 at 4:39pm —
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~ out of the desert, at dusk, he will come, intemperate, seeing you first with his eyes, burning like coals in his longing for your sumptuous fruits, then his mouth will swallow your blushing lips, he will drink deep from your sweet mouth while hands as strong as steel bind you close to him -- in that ravishing you will feel the Laylat al-Qadr in your breasts bearing passions fruit in your mind and your hearts will be as one...
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Lately
My cell phone by my bed
Despite my aching head
Just in case you call
Like so many times before
My throbbing skull
Cannot comprehend
The stark reality
That you never will
Fear is a demon
I’m as sick as my secrets
Today I conquered fear
Your demon flees me now
I’m done with false hope
Definitely
At the end of my rope
Such passionate poetry
Flowing words of depth
Bouncing off indifference
Wasted on hypocrisy
How foolish of me girl
What the hell was I thinking?
As if I were drinking
But far t…
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Added by bill grimes jr on August 30, 2009 at 3:27pm —
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in the congress of Love
only Loving is the Truth
and that's the Beauty of beholding
with a realEYEsed look that dares to see
that Truth like Beauty is relativity --
this is my body, this is my blood,
come unto me as children would
with eyes the heart has seared with fire,
overflowed as insanity on the sharp edge of desire
where the fool and saint are one and the same
as players in the play of this duality game --
promulgate your Truth as if a wave on the Sea
where waves all gather but disagree…
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Added by jeRRy whaLLey on August 19, 2009 at 6:00pm —
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My soul
Still adolescent
My body
Aging rapidly
My spirit
Free
When I allow it to be
Unencumbered
Still seeking harmony
Quite simply
I’m amazed
Living preordained destiny
Despite my numbered days
Woodstock
Forty years along
Much more than an event
To me
A burning bush
It taught me to express
My deepest true essence
To seek my music muse
Artistic creativity
Social disengagement
“Establishment” distrusts
Lore of vain protest
Chills still dance along my spine
When Hendrix serenades
When Janis cries…
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Added by bill grimes jr on August 16, 2009 at 9:58am —
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Stormed the gates of heaven
Passed out
At the very gates of hell
Lived to tell about it
Gods grace thus far
My how I remember
Blowing chunks
Grooving to Grand Funk
Sweet taste of simplicity
Teenage obligations
Financial insecurity
Mississippi’s finest
Red Barn dollar draft
Milk jug pure
Boiled shrimp
Midnight fast food runs
Bayou water skiing
Among the cotton mouths
Old Mozart’s boat
I jackknifed his trailer
Just a hair more sober than he
Smiling as he cussed
Petit Bois Island
Reeling in the blu…
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Added by bill grimes jr on July 13, 2009 at 8:14pm —
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dreams are a compromise between wakefulness and the deep of sleep -- beauty is a compromise between love and what makes sense in this tiny portion of the cosmos
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Trying hard to strip away
The myth
From the man
I’m just a child inside
Searching for my bride
The queen to share my throne
My words
Rigid at times
Pointed
Brutally sincere
Spawned from deep within
Despite social consequence
Never pulling punches
Focus on the real
Piece of cake
For me to write a song
Increasingly complex
To right a wrong
I craved our union for forever
Never pictured defeat
So far I can’t accept it
Another quirk of my psyche
My eyes have grown hard
My lonely heart
Still mush
Quit…
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Added by bill grimes jr on July 3, 2009 at 11:58am —
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Creighton
Skyline
Alpine Hills
Little League heroics
Music saturation
My childhood
A blur
Nostalgia laced synapse
Disarmed coherence
My life
An open book
For those who care to look
Sweet Pam
Gregory Paul
JJ
Dee Grisson
Such magical moments
“Play some Who… Billy Ray”
Rest in peace Timbo
Relax my sacred friends
Our secrets
Safely locked
Beyond my published grave
Psycho drunken daze
Hormonal machismo
Pops Party Palace
Teenage alter ego
Me
Rebellious acolyte
Human nature student
Rocket armed wordsmi…
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Added by bill grimes jr on June 27, 2009 at 6:15pm —
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My sensitive words
At times
The enemy
Simmering emotions
Penetrating thoughts
Screaming to be free
Ponder eternity
Sad state of soul
Subtle revolution
True essence of a turning point
Fear of letting go
Wanting you to know
Then again
Not really
Sad discovery
Transparency
You already knew
Seeking solace for such loss
Reality
A cruel joke indeed
So this is how it goes
Depressions broken record
I’ve dreamed so long of bliss
Perhaps a mere mirage
Woke up this morning
A new day
Try another way
My poet…
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Added by bill grimes jr on June 27, 2009 at 1:17pm —
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