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soul drifter
Senior Member

since 2004-09-08

Posts 711
Colorado

0 posted 2004-10-05 03:12 PM

Goodnight Denver

Sighing,
“goodnight Denver,
sweetest dreams,”
though I know sleep
isn’t coming for me.
I’ve got too much noise
inside this heart,
got staring eyes of hers
tearing me all apart.
Her dark flaming hair
and curved luster lips
are calling me everywhere,
and I know I’m lucid
I know redheads kill me
I fear though I’m losing it
I know redheads save me.
I need safe harbor, ghost
to look at the city lights cry
by dawnlight I’m toast.

But goodnight Denver,
I love you and yours.
And I love you, sweet red,
I’m crawling on all fours
to fields of neurosis I’ve fed
I’m trying to get to the point
if there’s one I’ve read
somewhere in some joint,
off a lonely cold avenue,
above the urinal I read it
I wasn’t feeling very true
but this psalm truly said it.
Said, “All things must pass
if your heart is beating fast.”
That’s my mantra to impress
there’s motto to save my ass
but I digress...

So good morning Denver,
did you have any dreams?
Share with me, share with her
the nature of my schemes.
Got a love I can’t live without
a song to sing in the shower
but for now I will fade out
so, goodnight Denver,
wake me in an hour.

"Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, and tell them; and the truth of truths is love." --Philip James Bailey

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

1 posted 2004-10-07 01:04 AM

Enjoyed...redheads are nice...James

Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

2 posted 2004-10-07 02:22 AM

Brings back some memories, of nights I spent walking in downtown Denver. So busy on a Friday or Saturday night, so sleepy come 6AM Sunday.
Now, vicariously enjoying the flavor of Denver.

soul drifter
Senior Member

since 2004-09-08

Posts 711
Colorado

3 posted 2004-10-07 03:38 AM

Thanks. Some pleasent times spent in Denver as well, for me. Hell, I was born there, and I now I live in the suburbs, not too far from the city. This piece was partly inspired by the Counting Crows song 'Goodnight L.A.', which has kind of an insomniac theme as well.

"Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, and tell them; and the truth of truths is love." --Philip James Bailey

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