December 2009
1 post
Scales
We lack the scale to understand our insignificance. Our place in the universe, our place in time, our place in life, and even our place in the human adventure are less than the specs of dust we just fail to see in the beam of morning light. Yet, to us, that iota of existence, no matter how small and brief in its totality, there is great importance, for that is our universe.
June 2009
1 post
Tweet
My other tumblr is a twitter.
May 2009
1 post
Rare truth
Your love was like regret
You filled me with it.
January 2009
1 post
Correlations - interesting things...pointless... →
October 2008
3 posts
A Matter of Perspective
Standing here in a field of starlight I gaze through the optics into night Looking back through time I see the birth of distant planets Those worlds looking back at us See the early shapes of our genesis Perhaps in time we shall meet Those that saw our evolution And share the knowledge of our beginnings.
Escape Velocity
Standing at the bar of time In this middle age of earth Halfway toward our solar burn Halfway from our planetary birth We are awakened to our ultimate destruction Squabbling over the momentary concerns We ignore the rolling thunder of inevitability Before the clock begins to slow Before the stars begin to blink Before time turns back its arrow We must take this time to think The evolutionary...
Pax Ars
Wringing hands in a crucible of thought Twisted wrists keep pace with concept A foundation vanishes beneath a house of glass Shattered concepts crash in cascades of clarity The stained glass no longer tinting the sky True light shines on my cathedral of deception The unseen, the unknown, now no more I am this moment, I only have this time No longer a second chance or a god to blame No longer a god...
August 2008
1 post
The Muse
I am your Muse. The breath of divinity in the dark. I visit you in the cave of your despairs To light the flames of your dreams And awaken the hope within It is not until all is quiet after the storms of life That you can hear my whispers. In the silence my quiet visions unveil themselves And prod your greater angels to action It is in your defeat I find victory It is in your mute moments I find...
June 2008
2 posts
Wasteland
That moment when the edges of the paper begin to tear That simple critical decision between preservation and devastation Marks the age of the person holding the world The child stops The youth rips The adult repairs The scarecrows provide commentary.
What Happened with The Sub-Prime/Mortgage/Credit...
I have been listening to a podcast of This American Life entitled “#355: The Giant Pool of Money.” It is a very succinct and poignant description of how the current Housing/Credit crises came about and the factors that led to the bursting of the bubble. I would encourage every person to take the time to listen to the podcast and contemplate the why’s and wherefore’s of this catastrophic economic...
May 2008
2 posts
Call Center Coordinated Chaos
I have worked in call centers in every possible position from the lowly customer service phone jockey to the exalted Program Manager for a multi-national call center. I was once again astounded by the complete disregard of the corporate world for the quality of customer service. Corporations have done a very good job of beating the living hell out of customers and then finding ways to force more...
Mr. Darkside
How did it come to this? Always walking away when the moment begins to vibrate and the elements of the universe seem to be pressing against us, pushing us beyond our morals. We can see the depths of depravity with all its disorder and chaos calling, crooning, compelling, conniving, carousing, and contorting our thoughts to acquiesce to debauchery. Just one inch beyond your lips the abyss hums with...
April 2008
6 posts
Simeon and Simone: Chapter 1 part 1
“I wasn’t expecting them to just jump up and call my bluff like that!” Simeon yelled from under the arm of the rather larger thug that seem to be having his way with his head. “You never listen! You always have to turn every conversation into a reason to get into a fight! If…”, before Simone could finish her sentence she had to place the broad side of a table leg firmly on the temple of a diving...
A Canterbury Tell
April slides up on you like a lover trying to drag you back to bed. Her hands caress your shoulders till they curve gently to hold your chest. She digs her nails deep into the flesh of your meaty torso demanding your attention to her. She pulls and tugs on you to return to the warmth bosom. Whispering temptations using words like honey to hold you on the edge of her bed. You know that this too...
La Modiste
Slumbering frills Hiding from thrills She rests her eyes Longings inside Having spent her night Fearing morning light In entertainment Without attainment The red mill grinds us The music finds us Wheat and chaff tingling On the millstone mingling Beaten through by joys Another dream of wild boys This moment has passed This night her last
March 2008
14 posts
Manifesto of the Noble: Beauty
“It was one of those days when it’s a minute away from snowing and there’s this electricity in the air, you can almost hear it. And this bag was, like, dancing with me. Like a little kid begging me to play with it. For fifteen minutes. And that’s the day I knew there was this entire life behind things, and… this incredibly benevolent force, that wanted me to know there was...
Sacrifice and Surrender
Simple steps toward the edge Small strides forward When people talk of sacrifice They usually talk of things That they can do without I have learned most recently That the only true sacrifice Is giving away the things we need The purpose of sacrifice I have also discovered Is not for our own survival But for that of those we love So surrender yourself To those you hold dear And you will find in...
Diamonds
I want to write how I feel but I am numb. The pulses of emotions tremble at the edges of my heart. For a time it was as though I had diamonds in my hands but found too late it was sun shining on grains of sand. This once though, I am only grateful for the time and the wonder of it. I think we both were enriched by what moments we have had and the pleasant joy of each other. Saddened now by the...
The Titan's Dilemma
I cannot watch this clock tick by any longer. I want to sleep and sleep so that the days go by. There is something missing from this life of mine. It would seem that the god or gods that grant us life leave it to us to complete it like a jigsaw puzzle with only 999 pieces. I have everything a man could want in this life except what I want. I could have substitutions if I sought them, but gilded...
Chillin' With the Villian
Death came by tonight. He had nothing better to do Than to see how I was doing We talked about the day He expressed his fondness for the night And his interest in my life I didn’t feel like sharing But I couldn’t help myself I had to entertain his presence We sat and watched House Death liked the show he said Because every now and then Someone dies and he gets to win Sometimes he says he’d like To...
Manifesto of the Noble: Understanding the Human...
“Garbage in, Garbage out” - George Fuechsel Throughout my discussions of this Manifesto I will elude to how the human psyche operates. In order to assure that my use of words is later understood with clarity I must first define those terms which by others are explained differently. Throughout my life I have studied many religions. That pursuit was spurred on by an understanding that religion and...
Manifesto of the Noble
“For, as I suppose, no man in this world hath lived better than I have done, to achieve that I have done.” – Sir Thomas Mallory This is not a statement for my generation or a call to some higher moral truth. This is my values, principles, and the driving purpose as I understand them today. Accept or reject them. Absorb or repel them. Attain them or refuse them. However you respond matters not to...
Cardiomasochism
I want to rip my heart out This betrayer of my life It finds the one thing, The one impossible thing The once unthinkable Unexpected pain of l… It aches like arthritis Making even the bones Shake within their wrappings It pulls the ribs inward By means of a black gravity Like vices to compress Air and blood into lo… I cannot reach the beast Hidden inside its cage Of ivory bars and garnet Sinews...
Never have I ever...
In the darkness I reached for her with a hand that could not or would not or more precisely should not, touch her. How could this happen when all I ever wanted was to just make it through the world unscathed. Obligations, a higher love, a deeper commitment all stand before me where I have placed them as the guardians of my heart. On the other side she sits there aware or unaware of her...
Tick Tock
Did you every hear it. (He points his finger at his head) The sound of the clock ticking down. (He closes his eyes) The pounding of the heartbeats. (He taps his temple keeping time with the clock) The pulse of your life running out. (His teeth gritted, he looks up and stares past you) The weight of existence telling you it’s almost over. (He pulls his other hand down and grabs his shirt) Have you...
Birth of a Psychosis (Fuck You)
Touching the space between us Abrasive embrace Sandpaper spirits Cutting words clutch in the closeness Exacerbated exchange Scouring souls Tongues rub raw like razor scrapes Piercing penetration Battered bodies Wounds, welts, whelps, and wastes You made me. Alone.
Joy Escapes
I wander the ether in search of a needing soul We all meander till some event or muse Or catastrophe Summons us to the now. We are the singular expression of the heart Held silent within this dark kingdom, Blind to our own thoughts, Mute for our own desires Each soul carries us in their cage From moment to moment till Some key crisis demands a response. The spirit unlocks our prison doors And for...
Mother's Love Affair
Listless breeze on open wings A gentle glide through golden spring Swallows sing of summer’s stake Earth her womb wide-awake Thunder hums on tiny wings Lightning glistens like gilt strings The heavens plummet toward the earth Bathing droplets across her girth Beneath the streams the Earth yields Forceful flood finding furtive fields Opened wide she drinks her fill Soaking deep the heaven’s spill
Lesbian Baseball Haiku
Sometimes you gotta go for the gut. A little homage to the lovely lesbian ladies I have known: I would cheer for them I would field for them, except They don’t swing my way I would cheer for them I would pitch for them, except They don’t play with balls I would cheer for them I would bet on them, but I Like the other team I would cheer for them I would manage them, but I Lack the equipment I...
Click
Most of my life is spent in silence and dark boredom. I sit here on the precipice on my own corner of the world. Alone. I long for a hot fire to throb through my circuits and give me that purpose, the scintillating oscillating voltage shuttering violently through the wires. These long hours of night drag on like long eons till she comes with the morning light to sit on her throne of soft...
February 2008
8 posts
A S!GN OF OUR T!MES
I have served this church for 30 years. When I first arrived every surface on me sparkled. I had no competition for the attention of the passersby’s. The lights on my head were bright and warm and lit up the night in 3 second oscillations. My bright white sides had no marks as they do today. There was no mold or rust on my frame. My feet stood tall and proud on solid earth, but now they cannot...
The Words I Haven't Said
I spoke with all the wondrous syllables I could muster About small and significant things alike I twisted phrases like twine Spilt the world to show the gentle rumbling inside Shared the eyes of my soul Peering through the windows of our realities Till I exhausted every metaphor For every symbol I could find I danced around the thought I held inside Knowing that I should never Should never, not...
The Crossing Guard Arises
The thrill, the power, the responsibility, the duty, the battle for the lives of our future, this is what gets me up every morning. The blaring alarm and the glaring darkness of the early hour pummel me back to a few more minutes of rest. Satisfied that time will not cease its endless march at my request; I twist, pulling my legs from their warm shelter into the glass shattering chill of...
The Crash
Safely navigating the obstacles I never saw our intersection Till time saw fit to crash You into me I have forgotten destinations In the crumpled emotional steel That is all that remains of You and I Waiting on legal determinations We traded our personal information Stopping the world to keep You with me Loud Reports, Louder Retorts Blue lights settle everything Creating this new distance...
My Debt
Spending years like credit card cash Buying up my future far too fast An obligation to an older me That time will collect Before we have our chance to meet Collector of debts will come far too soon As I stand below this libelous moon Watching stars spin above My feet stuck here on earth What has all my living bought for me?