Category Archives: poetry

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Dude, Dudie, Duds 

I thought of your cat whose name I didn't get
 But it's not important so I really won't fret
 Worried he's not either, I'm willing to bet
 Especially where previously we'd already met
Did he call me by name or show me disdain?
 Not at all, he spoke to me seeming perfectly sane
 And trusting that I was too
 we became friends without further ado
 No naming at all, what for, we both think?
 I know you without this common, predominantly human link
And if I let them, whoever they are
 they'll probably devise a number and a code like a bar
 and then scan me and file me and categorise me
 never to know me, only to show me and see me from far
I don't need your name and fit no one's frame
 To you I'm a cat and I don't play your game
 So don't belittle me with your silly names
 Ineffable I am and unapproachable in fame
Rise to my level and speak without words
 we can think to each other just like the birds
 Cause when I sit there and dream or look like I sleep
 I'm in a world you'd be breathless to peep
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clue-clue-clueless 

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I have no clue who makes the dragonfly fly
 I have no clue why you're reading this
 or who God's father is
 and why you cry
I have no clue even when I search desperately
 I have no clue why you're loving me
 or what makes me breathe
 it's all a melody
I have no clue why you're so beautiful
 I have no clue what put me here
 or why you're killing me
 was I unsuitable
I have no clue if life's even real
 I have no clue why I live in an igloo of pain
 and why I've lost the fire to relight the flame
 but for the moments we steal
I have no clue why scars embody infernal suffering
 I have no clue why i struggle in vain
 and why I don't even feel any shame
 puppeteered motions on a string
I have no clue why I flick through screen after screen 
 I have no clue why yesterday's laughs are now dead 
 or why the man with the gun is so bad
 religion's not mean
I have no clue where ageless finds the fountain of youth
 I have no clue what it takes for sad memories to flee
 and my mind is screaming to just let it be
 running from the truth
I have no clue why my picture froze a moment in time
 I have no clue why my heart still beats out a rhyme
 or why not happiness is mine
 the mirror repeats the same video line
I have no clue why I've run from you and from me
 I have no clue if there's a raison d'être
 or why such sweet fruits we share 
 a random event i also could be
I have no clue why my path tears into confusion
 I have no clue how you forgive and pour love over me
 I'm missing completely that 'happy to be'
 a mind full of frantic profusion
Does the waterfall know about a symphony of tears
 does the music know it's dying in me
 composing a final tragedy
 in my crystal of fears
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what is it with Nothing

Nothing was there, abundantly so
Wherever I looked I was seeing it grow
Nothing was filling my thoughts with hot air
Nothing was here and Nothing was there

Nothing was pushing and shoving my life
Still nothing kept happening ’cause Nothing’s alive
I couldn’t do nothing, should ‘I’ve been moping around?
So Nothing was tasked and Something was found

Still something was nothing but now had a name
It hung on the wall in a pictureless frame
Day after day Nothing looked down
All my visitors just gave it a frown

My head drones like a court of bouncing balls
But they’ve found nothing to jump back and fall
Forever they travel and question their fate
Still out there, they bounce louder of late

Nothing found Nothing and made it his wife
Now there were children of Nothing a rife
Nothing took over my mind, soul and space
Blimey no wonder that nothing was safe

Nothing had taken whatever I had
It used it and made more nothing with that
Turned into nothing I beg you and ask
Was nothing the point of my colourful past

Could it be Nothing that carried the seed
Of everything and everyone I was going to meet
Was it then nothing that was something at all
Misunderstood like a hole in the wall

Nothing oh Nothing what is it with you
Would it be wise to be working in two
You give me nothing so I fill it up
Now we can pour from my over-flowing cup

As I get drunk and happy and laugh
Nothing is dancing to show me the path
Leading away from nothing I see
Much more of nothing, much more to be

Now that I know what Nothing’s about
I can create my own voluminous cloud
Never again will I need to despair
Because Nothing’s my friend that’s why nothing is there

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this is what Freedom says

Yeah,

do what lifts your spirit into the sky
do it with all your might and a warrior cry
look back only to connect all the dots
never mind ’bout some of the occasional flops

live in the fulfilment of your dearest of dreams
even if you have only the meagerest of means
dance every moment, as if you’ve just won more time
keep the momentum you’re reaching the top of the climb

Humble up, drop all pretence, find your own way
don’t beat round the bush, voice what you wanted to say
then write what your soul always needed to speak
and look at what makes your heart skip a beat

give where you can and smile all the time
laugh when it rains, laugh when the sun shines
touch and hold hands as oft as you can
look at the eyes and be a true (wo)man

bounce and swing and tell the world you’re a king
enjoy every move don’t miss out on a thing
give all your loving and softness like a fairytale queen
cry tears of joy ’cause your life’s so ama-zeeng

bow your head and burst out with appreciation
sit quiet and sink into meditation
take a deep breath and calm down the beat
trust that what happens will be beautiful and complete