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LeeJ
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since 2003-06-19
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0 posted 2005-11-02 08:02 AM


impregnated knowledge
a magical stronghold
in hills of love
beautiful maidens
in man dreams hang

winter cloths on a hook
luggage stands empty
walking shoes look
in a suitcase
rolling their eyes
mumbling private decorums
as

darkness gloats flashes of Fatima
against my window sill
like a label marked “Urgent”
I think, they live in together
like exceptional individuals
lives that miraculously intersect

I hear a loud watch, absorbing time
Egyptian shamans pray to
the mightiest of gods…
writing calligraphy across my Achilles
like an encyclopedia with magic expression
gutting my closed bedroom door as
white flaked avalanches erase
narrow toothed, chattering blizzards
drawing candles that flicker heat waves
like an old friend, waving hello

I scrap for crumbs
Underneath play stations
of childhood
as
a woman from Harvard
screams hysterically..
something about
her dreams being raped
by genitals of transformation, into
over heated cathedrals

i think she gravitates her own weather
with square, honky-tonk blue fingers
yes, blue, that matches with nothing
cept her own muse’s
prefrontal lobotomy

did you know
wandering lambs, trade books
for a thirsty past,
of skull & bones
something that was forced on them

aficionados
which now fly into
the claws of wolves,
who bury them in
the world’s back yards
so no one hears about it
on the news?
they rest, you know,
like a shoulder bag
with a red lined silver case
waiting to unravel the boundaries
between dimensions and the human race

who wears perforated rubber gloves?
so, fusion with shadows of green
can make genitics, seep into mature
echoes, for life…floating in and out
of consciousness…like a Victorian
draped tablecloth, injecting some local
anesthesia into sensation…sensations
that are alive & well with reality…
transitional meditations of life
pulling back giant drapery
allowing light to pour into our evil
little rooms….

I find, they are not lost
as some people might surmise…
but…building
into moments of symbolic art
like a pre Raphaelite brotherhood
bulging in man’s body
guarded by Knights of the Templar
waiting to be born and
move in all directions
holding solidly, set screws of
God’s genetics

human images in torn bits of cloth
stuck in a crack of rippling seas
seas
nagging like an optomistic intrigue

tilting, to affirm disembodied voices
gloriously surrogating a faint brightening
of the sky
they lay silent to a sleeping world
for now…

they carry lunch kettles, to keep fresh
any positive fall out
golden hair spirals over
opposing mores, not unlike
a new tower of Babel
collecting
the perceived and unperceived worlds
lifting, through, chimneyed dimensions
like drunken god’s, holding their own
gargoyles on a leash, while
sprinkling holy water
over tongue-tied languages,
languages
that unites moral and immoral
corridors of underwater lights…
deep caves of the unthinking
making the mythical city of Atlantis
into a crossing bridge of
some divine hotel parking lot

They’re security sipping wine
like friendly ex-lovers, remembering
all the reasons why they were attracted
to each other…
then….all indifferences combine
into something sweetly good…

knowing it was just one of those
surprisingly warm winter nights
prophesizing, the long awaited
phenomenon, of bouncy spring
only this spring, will be the exception
it will be of greatness, profound
a gratification that exceeds
making love
a spiritual profligacy
and it is then I know
those sly wolves were supposed
to bury those so called fanatics

so
“tonight”, i ponder with a smile,
we sleep with all those dead bolts
unlatched…


© Copyright 2005 Lee J. - All Rights Reserved
babygirlwlove
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since 2004-10-10
Posts 1180
New York City
1 posted 2005-11-02 08:06 AM


wow~

this is rich and lush with visuals ...ascends the spirit...like prayer...

wow~

~babygirL

SEA
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with you
2 posted 2005-11-02 10:46 AM


this has so much ... I will be reading this one again and again.... excellent.
Midnitesun
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Gaia
3 posted 2005-11-03 12:15 PM


"writing calligraphy across my Achilles
like an encyclopedia with magic expression
gutting my closed bedroom door as
white flaked avalanches erase
narrow toothed, chattering blizzards
drawing candles that flicker heat waves
like an old friend, waving hello

I scrap for crumbs"

~and I'll search these blue floors for whatever crumbs you may kick my way~

Lee, this is a keeper, and then some

"we sleep with all those dead bolts
unlatched…"
damn, but that is such a great line!



nakdthoughts
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since 2000-10-29
Posts 19200
Between the Lines
4 posted 2005-11-03 06:11 AM


I hear a loud watch, absorbing time


as do I..and I  love the last lines...

You pack so much into a poem, I shall have to return to digest some more.

M

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