Poem Without a Title

Cantos XXXI to LX


Section V


Canto XXXI

sometimes remembering
is a work of pure fiction
the one is not the other
and the other is not the one
the spice is not the substance
but the imagination
shellack upon the bedpost
where the bed creaks 
with energy
but not emergency
hope springs eternal
not just in the nail
but also in the hammer
both are necessary for the conflilgration
blood that mingles with water
into wine...
free the swine
and the lotus land will be visited
not just here or there
but everywhere

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Canto XXXII

the lotus opens
to gather
like a telescope
the sky


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Canto XXXIII

civilization began
with  mace smashing
a captive's skull
it will end with a mace
smashing a captive's skull
not with a wimper
but a bang

kjg 421pm 1 may 2016

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Canto XXXIIII

i am lost in a haze of 
resolution
they came and went
came and went
came again
it was and will forever be
an endless haunting
no ghost is a peaceful entity
and no castle is exempt
frightened in your home
you retreat to a shelter
the masses do not like change
helter skelter
it comes in waves
not like on the shore or beach
but like a tital wave you cannot see
it swallows everything
and leaves nothing intact

you are a tortured puppet
no one thinks hurts
but it hurts the torturer
without even knowing it
you toture yourself
you beat yourself up
you are the lost element
you will always seek
and never find
you are the gangarine
that turns you black
and turns your body into ash
there is nothing you can do
but await the coming

one no longer lives life
the future is no longer a viable option
the moment is everything
that never comes
one falters one fails
one strives
for the impossible
one dies
without understanding anything

i have
like icarus
broken the bonds
i have flown
where wings of wax melted
the earth is a harsh mistress
when you crash

kjg 116amj 2 sep 2016

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Canto XXXV

the trees branch out
to gather nurishmnt
for mother earth
and the roots for 
a communication network
whenever we cut down a tree
we evermore starve mother
earth until she can no longer
nurish us

we have lost our way
we hve become a killing machine
burning down our own house

kjg 356am 12 sep 2016

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