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Apeiron, for Lawerence Welk

Posted: April 3rd, 2006, 3:49 am
by stilltrucking
Surface tension
a Calm bubble of reason
Reflecting the world

These are the good old days
Watching them go
Like the bubbles in my beer

Bubble boy
Counter clockwise
In a clock work world

Looking at the reflection of a face in a soap bubble
As tenuous as I am

Lies all lies
I am a truck I own you
I am a computer I own you
I am a Swiss cheese sandwich on moldy rye bread I own you
Meet my maker the mad molecule
I own you

My life careens in random orbits
There is no center
Only an empty calmness
I spiral outward into the void
Flinging off identity and meanings
As clear as death


http://home.earthlink.net/~dlhartz/donl ... et_my.html

Posted: April 3rd, 2006, 12:57 pm
by Ann Bingham
Use to watch Larence Welk growing up. Loved to watch, I think it was Bobby and Sissy, dance. So beautiful. Ball room dancing I think has gone out of style, least for the younger generation. Wish I could dance like that.


love lots

Posted: April 3rd, 2006, 1:00 pm
by Doreen Peri
I thought you said you didn't write poetry.

Posted: April 3rd, 2006, 1:15 pm
by mtmynd
Yeah, truck.. I concur with Dor'... good piece you've written here!

Ann Bigham - ballroom dancing is having a resurgence (of sorts) - there is some kinda weekly show completing in that form of dance using celebrities... on regular channels I believe, altho I know not which one.

Posted: April 3rd, 2006, 7:10 pm
by stilltrucking
Lawerence Welk, turn off the bubble machine. Do you remember when they used to have a bubble machine?

The only poetry in that was what I stole from St Anne of Sexton.
Lies all lies
I am a truck
I own you

Jesus Suckles

Mary, your great
white apples make me glad.
I feel your heart work its
machine and I doze like a fly.
I cough like a bird on its worm.
I’m a jelly-baby and you’re my wife.
You’re a rock and I the fringy algae.
You’re a lily and I’m the bee that gets inside.
I close my eyes and suck you in like a fire.
I grow. I grow. I’m fattening out.
I’m a kid in a rowboat and you’re the sea,
the salt, you’re every fish of importance.

No. No.
All lies.
I am small
and you hold me.
You give me milk
and we are the same
and I am glad.

No. No.
All lies.
I am a truck. I run everything.
I own you.

http://katebenedict.com/BadSexton.htm

She is out of style these days but she still works for me.

Posted: April 4th, 2006, 1:40 am
by Marksman45
truckin' -- take credit for your accomplishments as well as your failures ;)

Posted: April 4th, 2006, 2:44 am
by stilltrucking
thanks for reading mars.
thanks for reading Doreen and Mtmynd and AB

I am happy you liked it.

Posted: April 8th, 2006, 11:11 am
by mousey1
Yup, still's a poet he just don't know it.

It's a shame these calm bubbles of reason reflecting the world have a tendency to burst and then all hell breaks loose. These bubbles need to be made out of kevlar...or perhaps one of my roasted meats...impermeateable!

Good stuff st.

Posted: November 27th, 2007, 1:29 am
by stilltrucking
Those calm bubbles can be a snare and a delusion mousey1


Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune, as it was Roger Chillingworth's, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality.
thank you for reading
Sorry it took me a year to get back to you
I missed your reply

ah yes
the calm content the marble image of happiness

Posted: November 27th, 2007, 1:38 am
by hester_prynne
Whoa truck!
You hit me heart on with these.

H 8)

Posted: November 27th, 2007, 10:37 pm
by e_dog
Surface tension
a Calm bubble of reason
Reflecting the world
awesome, really.

Posted: November 28th, 2007, 9:41 pm
by Arcadia
beautiful poem s-t! glad to read it now, I missed it when you posted it first.

Posted: November 28th, 2007, 10:41 pm
by e_dog
Whats that word'nthatitle mean?

Posted: November 29th, 2007, 12:02 am
by Totenkopf
Poem, schmoem.

Larry Welk had a 'rockin band, big champag-nay style. Das Stimmt!

Posted: November 29th, 2007, 4:23 am
by stilltrucking
"The human brain not only can hold two contradictory ideas at the same time but insists on it." Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
thank you all for reading and taking the time to reply

sincerely

"Still Non-sequitur-ing" 8)