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Month: January 2025

the situation worked that way on me

Published by HJM on 01/29/2025

I need some fresh feet
I need a road that knows me
and invisible legs
that are always strong
with no powdered wigs and
no jails around (to hound me)

man hold that peace pipe
nah its upside down
heck I know the locals
they don’t mess around…
much!
ha ha ha

jes listen to that chug chug
pulling in the yot tub
breathing the whole thing in
waving the tall flag
on rigging thats been sprung
i’ll give it to the CAL TRAN
that interchange
is a son of a gun

went escaping from the city
noise and havoc had me wrung
out the door to freedom
wrest from clutch of babylon

alternatives advance
the quiet healing moments
that sometime stretch too thin
reveal that tinnitus within

I wanted some thing more permanent
much more adequate
before I cashed it in

lord i don’t have money to go
preaching in the church
I seek the wisdom to know
when I’ve found
security and some fun

my preaching was proof
of their free will

just remember
I never convert on a first date

I’m a traveler
every 54 years I migrate to another county

the situation worked this way on me

Where?

Published by HJM on 01/29/2025

What if I do, you know, think big thoughts,

I’m not sure I believe them, and what good is that?

And what if I don’t reveal them , then is hope lost?

I’m not working at being neurotic but, that’s the ghost

Theres just this place I’ve loved that is gone,

that is lost to a wrong guess

a mis-informed regret on this far shore

not sure what he meant

when he said

we got MORE

and I should have known better

but in fact I did.

HJM – January 12, 2009 at 11:52 PM

mortal refrains

mortal refrains

Published by HJM on 01/21/2025

the animal feels your heart
are you happy?
it is content
perched, its tail twitches
it naps upon the branch

poetry ; not the mere study
of pentameter and rhyme,
warms an inter-face
‘twixt heart and mind

determinism
discipline

diversity
discovery

What does freedom mean in a culture of control?
How Is Freedom a commodity to be bought and sold?

Ninja Moon

Ninja Moon

Published by HJM on 01/17/2025

ninja moon
smoked science
heavy traffic overheard
breaking harlots so absurd
Quentin Tarantino
bury me

aged sockets intercede
nothing lasts it
all goes to seed
ferried rockets to the front
but nailed the natives
to the trunks
throwing bundles of evil knives
far aloft
turning everything
powderpuff

…

Wrote years ago, random reference, general confusion fusion

When your tears are happiness and sorrow

When your tears are happiness and sorrow

Published by HJM on 01/15/2025


Life leaps to our eyes
Squeezes your heart
Time brings the children
Bouncing on your knee
Jumping into your arms or
Swinging on a swing
How they bring you every pain
And run away after your tender kiss
Come to you for love, tell you
Every sorrow and happiness
How should you live without
These tears of happiness and sorrow?

Delaminated lament of age progression.

Delaminated lament of age progression.

Published by HJM on 01/14/2025

Delaminated lament of age progression.

Yeah yeah yeah,

that thing that thing,

you know all those piles of things,

like years, like years flowing on into nothingness.

And the tires, the tires,

the tired go on and on and it all flows

and it is tireless

this going

this going is tireless

but we have to rest

so much resting, what can I tell you?

all the things that will be said

all the things to be happening

all the happening and all the

happiness we miss.

We do not miss the bad years

lets dismiss the bad thoughts

let us enjoy the SOLIDNESS

we have here, now

in a temple of wonderfulness

in a small car of concern

we wander these roads of dimension

What a person you are!!

What fine children you have

picked up and gave a ride home

Who made a home for them

and what different siblings you have had

and no one but you could have that combination

because in spite of all those tiresome things that

mire us in muck from the past,

we chose to be better than all that

maybe we don’t have the storybook family

but where we touch

In heart and soul

as alien as we need to be at times

we mean a lot to each other

and we want to go on

we are not giving out

we are not giving up

our joy of being here

part of us

and the hope

to add one more year

because of the wonderfulness!