I toked and turned away

Blowing out the long, dry drag

Over the old dying thoughts, laugh and say

I don't know why it was so nice to be with her

Kinsey rolled back over

The looks in our eyes so questioning more

My hope in us, if ever lost; whenever

I wanted you to want me to be the whore

It's gonna take me to forever

Let the energy speak

Without your excitation and fe...

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Nine Diamonds

We are the keepers of the green
The blue, the gold, the sienna blood
We are the makers of royal love
Upon crystal clouds of daydreams

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Drops, like minutes of a final December
The waters from swollen clouds
Overcome with the duty to remember
Upon those whom presume to be proud

A chill so worthy to be soothed
Freezing-rain, dusk and frost collude
Retreat to our dens to exude
The poisons of prophecy seep abused

Churn, will the nature hope to cleanse
An intelligence already prepared to mend
A terrestrial platform for us...

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Once you've loved someone your hands don't move quite the same again. In every object you hold is the curve of their neck; the weight of their tired head; the wrap of their body; the trust of their hand; the hoist for their foot; the gentleness of their face; the rhythm of their sighs; their pulsing moans; a tangle of their hair which you delicately free with patience and finesse. Like a phantom e...

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SNE

Somebody
please don't put me away
Not before what I'm supposed to do

They came for me
said, 'Don't you worry
we want the best things for you.'

And I closed my eyes
Hid my cries
Took their pills with their lies
I stowed away
and waited for the day I would fly

Nobody
sees the disharmony
Now what am I supposed to do?

I'm a medic's bag
operating
as a swiss army knife

...

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Cali trip: day -- ...I've lost count. Californian grit seethes like a begging hunt. No spark too fast, too agile to avoid capture, exploitation, destruction, incorporation. Hot like a wound pulling to heal; the fault lines clenched in fevered fall. Live like our legacies speak as we step into the room. Perpetuate the class of human disposal; the reliable weaknesses of insufficiency, of stature and...

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Dog and Dragonfly

On an island in the sky

'Neath the rain that paints the lives

Sits the ever-watching eyes

Breathing the ever-waiting sighs

For now we're forced to hide

Our patter of thoughts collide

Will showers of longing subside?

And our dreams remain inside?

Songs of aviary cries

Of ancient locust lullabies

Percussion pounds and will disguise

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What I Want

If life was easy, and I could buy

A future full of love and peace

Then why would I even try?

If my mind was mature, and I could know

That life was meant for the life that follows it

Then I’ll be someone my progenies will wish they could have known

I want an equal society that fairly represents

The rights of all individuals from any continent

Th...

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What I Need

If the world gave advice, unbiased and true

About what we really need

Then I wouldn’t be writing this to you

If my conscious was satisfied, at ease and in control

What I need would be all around me

Cast to the wind I join the eternal soul

I need to grasp my future, the dreams and aspirations

Protect my interests, my love and inspirations

Hold m...

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Watching Headlights

Driving alone with twisted senses

Stars barely shine through our filth

The hate has become invisible fences

With not nearly enough guilt

That is someone passing me by

Their name unknown to me

A life as alive as my own

But living as a mystery

Once again I’m watching headlights

Paranoid and all alone

Will this be my final fallout?

Par...

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Two and a Half Seasons

From March, the day of my Father

A season of once known candor

To June, months of willful patience

A season bleeding November

From June, days of dreary hope

A season I may not live through

To September, the day of my own

A season worth living through

Once more the season changes

As I feel the loss of warmth

Months pass somewhere in the w...

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Touch

At first it is the eye’s glance

Then it becomes the mind’s trance

It flows like a rush of blood from the heart

Finding an entrance is the start

Through words of love it’s earned

And lonely nights it’s yearned

Pleasure is its hidden treasure

At heights that simply cannot be measured

Skin so soft it feels like heat

Curves turn but soon they meet

Nerves ove...

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To Find Joy In Eating A Saltine

When life’s a daze

The world seems shut out

Haunted by a dream

To have to choose a route

Open mind with an open soul

Hollow focus of what there is to know

Keep me close to my love

See deep down what I’m really made of

Cross the ocean, dig a hole and call it home

Live my life, become the person your heart’s always known

Lear...

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Through Seasons

Through seasons we watch the Earth change

Past time and home on the open range

Four forces create a cycle of one

One order, no known start, they just come

Two opposites, two quite alike

Blending turmoil from day into night

Summer’s heat harvests heavenly Earth

Autumn’s fall follows fire into dirt

Winter’s darkness dampens desolate silence

Spring’s...

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Thoughts Spin

Redwoods, furs, lush forests surround

Plants, flowers, grass cover the ground

Walking down the shaded road

On my mind, a heavy load

I approach a railroad crossing, old, worn down

Weeds have overgrown the steel rails and tar stained ties

I look both ways, all the way down

Two different paths, each containing their own lies

The trees to the sides of the ...

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This Pen’s First Ink

Here is this pen’s first ink

Second only to this poem’s title

A life describing whatever I think

And resting until the next recital

My useful tool joins me at school

Needing only a few sheets of paper

I draw from a bottomless pool

Of the beautiful dualities of human nature

Word upon word of poetic wisdom

Sentence after sentence of p...

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There

Autumn born of winter

One week labor

One weak laborer

Hottest, wettest season

Emotional spring fever

Intense cabin pressure

Climbs the coaster

Thought there was a reason

My ideas are falling short

My luck leaves no excuse

I’m holding on to truth

The cast is on the loose

My past holds no proof

Of what moment to choose

A place I can’t refuse

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then I choose to laugh at the madness, all the madness.

Run and hide in the guise of a corporate flop.

On the bridge between home and adventure,

there lies an under-utilized clock.

Broken, though so it may seem,

sick, to some, would even feel sane.

Greater intentions lead to boundlessness.

But I cannot see beyond the grain.

Spices and a brutal interrogation of lau...

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The Sirens

There’s trouble somewhere

Someone needs help

The sirens are out there

Screaming to help

I’m lost again

But I feel okay

Lost in my music

Looking for the way

Maybe they’re hurt

Or dying in bed

Smoke from a fire

Faster blue and red

I’ve always moved to the side

I’ve always let them fly by

I’ve never kept them from moving

I...

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The Sacrifice

On wounded knee

The flounder’s pond

Gossamer tree

Great hills beyond

Sat a slouched man

Crossed legs

A well meaning attune

An ear full of pegs

Barked light off the moon

Listen and he stays

Lighten and he strays

Prepared for global fight

Well into the night

Aware of seasons fair

As doubtless as their glare

Why it is in our design

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The Eye Catching

It won’t last, but it’s only just begun

Living fast, my moment in the sun

I set off, carelessly emotional

To show off, splendidly biological

To live what I am, make the best of it

Be open to see our simple mysterious planet

The eyes holding their secrets

Thinking they’ll tell me exactly what I want to know

Could be plotting in private

To make me ...

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The Bridge

Come soaring on

Lifted over drowned distance

Wide horizon of clouds

Puncture amber crowned entrance

Alone on the edge of the world

Reaching for granted happiness

Stepping out to step inside

Before what happens next

A familiar stretch of steel

As I’ve gone this far before

Without reason to continue on

Ashes rematerialize off the ocean floor

In ...

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Somewhere Not Forgotten

Late in the day, and early in the night

I walk outside into the fading sunlight

The air outdoors is crisp and smooth

I take a deep breath and begin to move

The first three steps are down the front porch

The sun over the mountain burns like a torch

Up to the road the driveway is steep

Leaving behind my strong mountain keep

Upon the street I lo...

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Sleep

Inner shutters blow open

A gust of mental wind

Final scene escapades

Igniting from within

Slowly let go of life

Breathe calm and still

Run through fields of white

Immunity from the ill

Train young for sleep

Incubate the waking dream

Bearing forth the leap

To dreaming waking dream

Inside the mind is why

Seek the truth of reality

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Saddle Mountain of Fearlessness

When I travel to the saddle mountain of fearlessness

I am one and alone with my conscience

Running around the arched hills of triumph

I am reborn and cradled by warmth

At night I sleep under the stars and on top of the world

Only this when I travel to the saddle mountain of fearlessness.

                        Jake Belmont 5-29-01

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Resistance Song

My life as I once knew it was demanding and painful

My life now has become even worse

Behind the bars I lay and weep, for now I am a prisoner of apartheid

My family could be happy, or they could be dead

I will not know until I become free

Free as Nelson Mandela

Oh why must this be, why must this be

I haven’t done anything to anybody

I have done no wr...

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Path Of Destruction

Before the path lay straight

Narrow, unending

A simple twist of fate

Turn sallow, pretending

God’s design, wicked every which way

Hard to find truth every blood soaked day

No reason for will, cloud the mind away

Sooner or later, for your sins you will pay

Take it from me as I walk down the path

Ending in pain as I never look back

...

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Pablo

Looking for a home

He’s working for his own

Freedom is our land

Of all a working man

Each day as it’s seen

Never know where we’ve been

Never know what we’ve seen

The beauty of life is what I mean

We are like two different men

But the same then again

Searching for a better life

Writing the passage of our mind

The sun is calling

The...

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Of The Energy

We are all children of the energy

Regardless the pigment of our skin

Beside the thought of our God

All the same from within

We’re evolved water

Bonded elements

Alive; to question and choose

A genius triumphs

Great minds think alike

Power divides us

The loser puts his arms up

Are we being noticed?

Or are we really alone?

We are interpreti...

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Ocean Beauty

He stands still with a rose in his hand

His bare feet dug deep within the white sand

He looks out towards the horizon

The sun slowly begins risin’

A gash of crimson scrapes the empty sky

A white dove flies by

The golden explosion fills the surroundings

The auburn warmth makes his heart start pounding

The black sea becomes a deep indigo

And the waves ...

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My Project Me

I take a moment to breathe

No chance of completion is near

Healing slowly within my sheathe

Dying lowly by the mirror

Lost among fate’s wily quarry

Some lack the same due flaws

Encased by a forgotten story

Exposed to all a leper’s maw

Youthful habits die hard

Life will never compare

Sociability ceaselessly marred

Emotion’s descent; c...

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My Journey

As a growing person

Instead of doing a lot of a few things,

I did a little of a lot of things

I had that great ability carrying-on

Well into my late teens

To venture out and travel the world

Knowing my journey lay ahead

In such incredible fashion

I then learned just how cruel

Of a society we have;

Watched in dismay as the filth,

The dis...

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My Ache

It hurts deep inside

Shivering all over my skin

Latent after I’ve cried

Slithering moreover within

Sliced a gash across my heart

Sent a chill down my spine

Diced and slashed my world apart

Bent the life that was mine

A loss of strength and foundation

Shifting motherlands under one sun

Across a straight implication

Shaking brother’s hand un...

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Love (Blue Burns Black)

The push and pull of reason and faith

Left alone to question innerspace

Quantify the ends to project the means

Whispering inflections behind the scenes

The open road, an ancient tale

A long lost dream of ancestral gale

Sent to wonder where it is birthed

Criss-cross time finding none of more worth

A warp of dimensional reality

One...

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Lost Cause

            When I have to defend myself

                        I can’t explain the reason why

                                    I chose the choice I had to choose

                                                The trigger pulled ahead of time

So once more you mend the bridge

            I fall a position below you

                        Swept up in c...

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Life Is But The Dance of The Flame

As they introduced the second agent

The nuclear chaotic gift arose

Scattered through space a puzzle pageant

A hidden meaning in guise exposed

Of the energy we all share

By the consent of geological tide

A spark of evolutionary flare

Fuels the flicker emanating from inside

Destined we are

The grasping absorption of any ...

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Life = Earth

The undertow slithers, equilibrium pulses loss of structure

A breath, a sound, seems ages away from a violent center

The grasp I try to hold, the aging happening to my control

Is always too much to bear?

Knowing I’m the one coming clean

Saying what it takes to be there

While dying holding on to our dreams

The continuous lapse of lost time

Alwa...

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Leaving California

Where is a better life?

Travel somewhere I’ve never gone

How do I know I’m right?

If I pretend I’m never wrong

The world is asking me to run

But I never heard the starting gun

Another life I leave behind

Worth the life I try to find

Years ago many rushed

Holding dreams within their hearts

Upon the trail yet to be crushed

To wher...

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Lapsing

Away from home three years now

Devil’s gorge in August

Outside you couldn’t bear

Satan’s ruthless September

Still choking without air

Moving on so very soon

Only time makes the choice

New possibilities for speaking my voice

Will three new lives solve my ache?

Some new eyes is all it will take

Maybe from near, maybe from there

But right now...

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Inside My Mind

No matter how far I seek

Removing myself from my mind

Inside I follow my own rules

Just like everyone else outside

Perfecting my rhythm

Senses perform at my strength

At every moment learning

Stretching my length

So I travel the world

To see where we’ve gone

Broaden my pain

To know how to be strong

Trapped by self-interest

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In The Kitchen

A living micro chasm separate from the world

Within walls the heat is trapped

Long days; longer the easier mundane work

Knowing by the rhythm of humanity,

The seasons of Earth’s diverse family

An evolving palate, a demand

An honest business, cash in hand

Otherwise a paint stroke of diversity,

Fat of the land, harvested and shipped in,

Is prepared c...

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I’m Taken

Just when I thought that it would never happen

Just when I thought I would be fine on my own

Out of nowhere came a miracle

And now my heart is not my own

She’s got me in her grips

And I am hers from here on out

It’s love maybe forever

And I’ve got nothing to whine about

I see so many girls

I see so many fish

But they don’t even compare

T...

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I Don’t Get It, and I’m Not Gotten

Here in this place

Over six months now

Away from those who know me

What I wanted somehow

A clutch for solitude

Is not what I need

Those days are over

Today I must heed

Slightly different

Comfortably the same

I must find a place

They must know my name

Given this stage

I perform for no one

Yet there’s...

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What is all food, but the butter of our Earth; the young, sweet pussies like the gardens before the stairway to heaven.  The wine, like the croquet of our souls.  Our loves, fleeting and never-ending, like stark voices in smoke disappearing and fading away, only to return as warm memories or climactic collateral overhaul.  Our fears, like chains on our senses, operated by those who’ve learned how ...

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Game of Love

My hands do so much for pain and pleasure

Yet they do not control what is right

Love is that you need to measure

It will come and then you hold it tight

My eyes do so much for good and evil

Yet they do not see what you’ve become

I have to stop the horrid thoughts

And then you stop what you have done

My mouth does so much for words and meanings

But I ...

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Fate to Wait

I saw her, she walked away

I met her, she didn’t stay

I loved her, she couldn’t see

I asked her, she ran from me

Every girl is just the same

A pretty face with a strange name

They always want something more

Always find it out the door

It must be my fate to wait

For more time to concentrate

It must be my fate to wait

For a girl that I ...

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Eight Months in Cleveland

First I was unaware I was aware

Holding on to my best friends

Leaving my mind beside my fear

The harshest winter never ends

Stranded, content

My body and I

A blood colored vent

Nobody inside

Back to a day’s repeating pattern

Awake late, fall early

A place on Earth in tatters

Hope lost so surly

My mothers keep me g...

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Daisies of Depression

Devastation comes at a cheap price

Nothing you do can stop it from coming

When it hits, you hit the floor

Time makes no difference, because the mourning will always dwell

You reach for a daisy of depression

That is the only comfort you will receive

Get up and regain your stand

Before the next occurrence demands for a daisy of depression.

 ...

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Could it Be You

Every day in everyway the same normal plot

At this age and at this time it’s the only thing I’ve got

I try to make it better outside

But everything revolves around the inside

Hours spent learning

Hours spent yearning

There are times when everything is great

Then sometimes nothing but hate

Walking through an amusement park

Faces and buildings make ...

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Company

In finding time for company

I search for time within myself

Set the scene, I’m alone writing

Top bunk, correct posture, somewhere south

Every controversial moral befronts me

Any comment or behavior analyzed

To which school of thought do you belong?

Or are you just here to demoralize?

A fail-safe, task involving hobby

Time to think and weigh choices

Str...

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