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wayoutwalt Member Elite
since 1999-06-22
Posts 4870TEXAS (it's all big) 
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I don't seek depravity I defy gravity Turn me on my head See if I can live Sunshine for the Rooted ones Punk me out in style Tell me when I'm done Give me a little grin And I will take a smile Give me a mountain peak And I will kick it in your face There is beauty in the recess Play within the void Take an idol and melt its soul See if there's plaster or faster ways Always keep your head in clouds Optimists are filling They fill my belly as I pick them clean Angry men cause the angst I wreak Bowling pins are the men I hate Suits and ties and monkeyshine Keep me in that heart of mine Always found a better way Amongst the play amongst the play Puppeteer, drinking beer And he who runs my life Cannot refrain from wicked ways The streets are cold with vinyl Plastic slippers fit the pretty I have a corn on my foot Just enough to squeeze Am I pretty? I can wear the shoes you died in I broke my neck in the silver street Fell on a can of mashed dreams and stringed out desires Welcome to the underground of the wizard flower Excuse me I think I might be sick Where did I learn that intrepid line Grade school, played fool, turned out quite the social tool I think not! And that is my brand of trading poverty for mealy worms They take the blackness from my heart And my belly of optimists To share with the worms of death The plastic, angry ants of social war and inner peace Found depravity and gravity, wage a war that doesn't cease You may think that you're brilliance And you're the way to end the war Find yourself, bind yourself In a place worth dying for Fight the normal, fight the circle The cycle the monkey rides Punches Tripitaka in the nose Where does the west wind blow A handkerchief or the ocean When no one looks does the west wind blow Snot into the ocean? Bands play, hearts flay, skin explodes the charts Held court, life short, like a gift on Christmas Eve Shaken, ripped and upon decent Forgotten in piles of plastic Die, young poet When you see the sign ahead You'll be to close to turn back now Die young, poet Or live like golden cow Melt your soul today Plaster for faster ways Hear me? Don't listen I have nothing to say I don't live anymore than you do The chair, the beat, the food you eat Sustenance till death Is all a baby's breath Nothing is real Nothing is nothing Contradictions Are what we thrive on Nobody is me Anybody, I am Somebody, you are Let's all get together Form a society And then break it down The cycle the monkey rides Punches Tripitaka in the nose Did I already say that? Nobody knows. The blue I wander in The red I see through well The yellow is my brain Mix on the mural of a bar stool Underneath still there is the gum The west wind blew. Chew me up, spit me out Pay me once a week Watch me on the evening news Shift up and set the cruise Gravity keeps me cornered Weight calculates What I can escape from If I could just throw it all out I'd be stronger than you Because you are deep man Out of control I am arrogant and afraid of you You are the hole, of the hole, of the hole On the can of moron salt And I fit in somewhere maybe on your wound Lick me, lick me, pour me on your heart I'm about to walk away Lay me down and sway and sway Fields of corn, that's where I walk Cannot rhyme when I talk Only when I'm one with one "I have this real drive to know myself" Leathered seats bucket pain No one get too close to me No one see my awful shame Closed circuit test pilot Found the want ads one day Sheared them off his lightning rod And blasted for the sky He knew no bounds Could not even read Played with fire Saw the sadness of youth and clung to his mother She was a roadie with the Toadies He was a beast of undesire Potty trained from infamousy Could not get a job in this town But did keep his belly filled I myself am a little hungry Never dreaming a half full Could be alright If he ate me would he carry me to the stars My mother was not a roadie She's in heaven I want to reach her I seek to slay depravity With the senseless hope of weakened gravity The real war I must fight On soil where the rooted ones benign And I can see the sign It reads: Die young poet At least you may sigh Say you wish defy? Angry men And apple pie? Soar through the open sky Let me tell you poet, die. One man whole will surely cry And you will be redeemed You're pitiful life I dreamed! All is real because I say Death is beauty in its sort Cards are dealt from under hand You, not meant to understand This sign is all there is Read it, know it, cherish it I will be back for you You, my sheep Take slaughter now But your coat of sheer perpetual grace Will be sheared and made a finer place Somewhere above I found some peace Waging wars will never cease Demon, angel, plan their grounds From the time first love was found And all that's held in firm release Slips to the cutting room floor Reels upon reels of vaudeville and hurt After it's over, the gum is trashed The soda pop, popcorn and the two timers Who think they can sit through a movie twice I hope when they die they are awakened from this Life is not a cycle A monkey rides To punch Tripitaka in the nose And I never read that story is that how it really goes? 2:AM is relevant I am a poet I will die young Sleep is restless, imagination time If only I could use it I haven't learned the art quite well I am arrogant and afraid Subtle, better, not so good Whoever said to live is vain Nobody understood Rainbows fight wars for unification Constant embattlement for naked eye Paint me one color and I am branded Paint me all and I am lost Figures of speech Are culture's icons Heroes of yore Are yesterday's fools Turn me in, and out,all about I will be your driving tool Found myself in bloody pool Mother's disapproval Could not be yet alarmed My destiny's to fall For gravity, my sweet surrender Fourteen stories up Fall like a feather and float away Pain is the film on my mourning teeth You read the words on my salty wreath Epitaph: this tomb is empty He was not divine, he was swallowed up The minute he found hope Hope is a four-letter word Starts with H and ends with E Dissect the meaning of hope Whilst I eat your liver out You, that are dying from it Drank too much beer Took a job as puppeteer Gravity on stringed desire Depravity on a lyre Which song is of my heart? Where I began, I will end At least that is the trend Gravity would just distort my thinking Pain of wishful tearful eye Whisper poet, soon you'll die Sunshine is the folly of man's path I want only recess time But for not, I've lost my mind [This message has been edited by wayoutwalt (edited 04-25-2001).] |
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Irish Rose Member Patricius
since 2000-04-06
Posts 10263 |
This is absolutely utterly fabulous and I hope it is on page one for a good, long time!!!!!!!!! I will be back for another read, I can tell you that!!! Kathleen Blake |
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cruz Member
since 2000-07-18
Posts 282Dallas,Texas USA |
Walt, this is quite cosmic! If unread, life would be incomplete. Your "play within the void," recess of your mind, is quite creative and nonconformist like. The "You may think that you're brilliance..." is one of my fav parts. When you refer back to gum, the sign you see, and the like is quite clever. "Hear me? Don't liste..." awesome. Man, walt there is so much here. 'your graphic thoughts, the sign that reads, its all so needo. 'wish i could reply to every sentence. dont die young. ever expand. let it be known you are poetry and poetry breeds poetry, so says me. |
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
"Where I began - I will end" You may have lost your mind - But I sincerely doubt it, my friend... You're writing deeper and deeper introspections with every passing day ...  |
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Gentle Spirit Member Patricius
since 2000-10-09
Posts 13989 |
Such a deep introspection Walt, and I for one totally enjoyed the words you lay out for us to enjoy like a buffet of words to be savored. Well done. On the wings of words our spirits fly....and our souls are free. |
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Saxoness
since 1999-07-18
Posts 1102Texas |
Whoa... Such fabulous lines in here... I am a poet, I will die young... I am arrogant and afraid... Congrats Walt. This is marvelous "Glory remains unaware of my neglected dwelling where alone |
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wayoutwalt Member Elite
since 1999-06-22
Posts 4870TEXAS (it's all big) |
Wanted to show my appreciaction for Anybody who would read this. |
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Nate Dogg Senior Member
since 1999-11-15
Posts 1658Georgia, Fulton |
My god, this is a long poem!!! I read what I could and I mostly enjoyed this...a brilliant and unique write!! Nathan |
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Coco Junior Member
since 2001-01-28
Posts 48 |
Walt sweetie, I wanna show my appreciation to you, dearPoetFriend, for sharing this magnificent write... CocoBaci... chocolate kisses  [This message has been edited by Coco (edited 04-26-2001).] |
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Severn Member Rara Avis
since 1999-07-17
Posts 7704 |
Ok...there is no WAY I have time to critique this though I really really want to lol... wow...quite an effort you've put in here...and quite profound in places... great stuff Walty!  K |
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wayoutwalt Member Elite
since 1999-06-22
Posts 4870TEXAS (it's all big) |
thanks you guys and don't think that any line is just filler to me when I wrote it yuh hehe it's all got portent yuh yuh |
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elisaseyes Member
since 1999-07-15
Posts 196fort worth texas |
Quit watching so much VH-1 sweet tart. |
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doreen peri Member Elite
since 1999-05-25
Posts 3812Virginia |
quote: bravo!!!!!!!!!!walt.... i have no words... i quoted only a couple of stanzas... there's way more.. way way more... THIS IS POETRY!!! i'll be back... i need to read this several times... i'd like to save it... i definitely am saving it in my library here at passions... and this being only the 2nd individual poem i've saved there... but this is... RICH... vivid... WONDERFUL writing... angry, heartfelt, full of imagery and passion.... lots of social statements.. it's AWESOME!!!!!!! i am enthralled...... EXCELLENT work!!!!! |
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doreen peri Member Elite
since 1999-05-25
Posts 3812Virginia |
whoops!!! forgot to select the library button....... |
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wayoutwalt Member Elite
since 1999-06-22
Posts 4870TEXAS (it's all big) |
Doreen you have made me have big smiles thank you |
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Dark Angel Member Patricius
since 1999-08-04
Posts 10095 |
Walty, Wow, so many great lines here and the deepness is amazing. I enjoyed it so much. into my library it goes. Maree |
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wayoutwalt Member Elite
since 1999-06-22
Posts 4870TEXAS (it's all big) |
thank you Maree for the nice remarks o yuh |
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forevernbluejeans Member
since 2001-04-05
Posts 76 |
This is awesome...this line killer...Paint me one color and I am branded Paint me all and I am lost PPSSTTTT now you know my secret...dont tell ok? |
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Sudhir Iyer Member Ascendant
since 2000-04-26
Posts 6943Mumbai, India : now in Belgium |
Hey Walt..... My goodness, you have me STUMPED.... really, this packs in so much intensity that I am just in too deep within this one... Regards to you, Sudhir |
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Decaflame Senior Member
since 2001-05-11
Posts 1635 |
This is definitely NOT filler..... |
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wayoutwalt Member Elite
since 1999-06-22
Posts 4870TEXAS (it's all big) |
thnaky forevern for pickin this one up and everyone else that has added a comment o yuh! |
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Titia Geertman Member Ascendant
since 2001-05-07
Posts 5182Netherlands |
Took a hell of a time to read it, but it was worth it. Thank you. Titia |
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