Take Me Away

[WIREMAN]

headin' for a better star
somewhere out there on
the fringe...the Milky Way
beckons you...tantalizes me
for an hour.....for a day...as
we roll in the hay....look there's
red Mars....and Jupiter the brightest
star....take me there....let me compare
the water and the ice, the whole cake
slice.....turnin' water into wine was fine
yet now good people we ain't smilin'...
but I tell ya we be flyin'....to a better star
to a break-a-day.....morning glory, not all
this get the hell outta my way.....shinin'
brightly to the east.....sittin there on powder
blue sheets.....comin' at ya with Buddha's
prayers...light shinin' beyond compare....O
come with me to the light of the break-a-day
some might call it Tao...others call it Zen...my
mind continually wakes up to the reality...that it
can be on the edge.....on the fringes of a star
out there in the Milky Way....take me away....
won't ya take me away...................................WIREMAN

[judih]

i'm a boomerang on constant re-play
i'm thrown into orbit and circle on home again
can't get away

circumstance tosses me for a loop
and i sail over and over
landing on these same feet
hurtling home ass-first
caught in a spin

spiral me, wouldja

[WIREMAN]

OOOOOOOOOO......I'll spiral
with you.....words like waterfalls
flowin'....power drawing all those
who care to be around... in....jump
on in the waters warm.... let's begin
ain't no dream....we shine and are
posessed with a sheen....ping-pong
balls in the rapids what we be....poetry
writing whole beings...............

[judih]

luminous generousity
words bubble to the surface of time
remnants of hope and fervour
i live in an echo of surprise

bobbing to the sheen
water to air
sliding through the elements
i breathe in the wonder of now

for the moment, the sea complies
no one drowns
boats sail safely
man overboard is the sign for midnight revelry

innocence prevails
a laugh rings in new morning light
distant storms abate
- a precious view of calm

[WIREMAN]

as if it all parted, enter
new day, be up I say!
birds sing a calming toon
and the harbor will shine
in the afternoon, whilst
creation waits, an ebony
guitar will arrive any day
and a wired man will play
a solemn tune, bout being
taken to the moon on a
carpet of words, exotic voices
that were heard all through
sleepless reverie...................

[judih]

hey, it's a test
it's only a test
if you make it through this one,
you'll be wiser

a test of what you're made of
it's all an obstacle course
to try your street smarts

a walk through broken glass and fire
a hop over barbed chicken wire
a test, ya know
think macGuyver, think einstein
pull out your wits
your emergency tool kits

it's only temporary insanity
a quandry, a rubic cube
a conundrum to expand
enlighten, a test

baby steps, support system, cliches and diatribe
do not fall into these traps
it's in ya
you can do it
alone and together

[Doreen Peri]

I have been
taken away

by fringed power
star retreats, way complete
with buddhist ideals, repleted
glory morning gun powder hits,
barbedwired tired einstein cliches,
trite like emergency toolkits,
temporarily insane,
waiting to nick the diatribe
with a mock of support system
cliches.

No-one drowns by
such knoweldge.

[WIREMAN]

hits that miss the mark
fired from lil toy cannons
the real deal cannot be
flustered, not a bit, in
fact all is fodder for the
writing gods and goddesses
your armour is inpenetrable
and beyond their withered
philosophies, envy is a funny
thing, causing things to be
said that are'nt really meant
while we're still shootin' past
the stars, leaving behind all
the scars.........................................................

[judih]

scars tend to reopen, those drips that suddenly reappear
the sounds of past aches
the fears of semi-buried memories

a blast of now joins hands with past traumas
one strengthens the other
like a crowd climbing aboard a ferry boat
travelling slow but steady

convince me i'm okay
this is okay
a temporary madness

is life as hard as this?
as the hard lives of times past
reconvene in my heart

how many reincarnations make a nirvana?
my mind shies away from the sum

papyrus scripts unroll
as abacus beads compute

many lives make a human endeavour
all rolled into one

a phat one

[WIREMAN]

a big phattie on the back deck
way to bring down the day
ya know I'm kinda blown away
the blast-off to the outer limits
becomes a sojourn in the twilight
zone, beyond misunderstanding
I realize once again the no control
the cold vastness of cyber space
explorations that are poof!...nothin'
but thin air.....wire tracing vast
spaces and complex energies, yet
all that I have heard I do not wanna
believe....yet I must.....................

[judih]

the quest for money is a history of cruelty
power and greed
an anthem that crosses borders
and burns obstacles

He with the clout
brutalizes those without

Excuse my tremor
i'm an earthquake with nowhere to go
a disbelief with nowhere to hide

[WIREMAN]

circling the space ship,
round Venus and out
past Mars, makin' our
getaway....another time
some better place, cause
in this whole wide universe
of "NOW", there's gotta be
someplace there not screaming,
"get the hell outta my way!".............

[judih]

Once upon a time
there was a beliefship
packed with optimistic travellers
(all of them me)

We watched aurora borealis
shooting stars and sudden orbiting moons
as we passed through one galaxy to the next

Times were such that
there was no time
no tick, nor clock
nor thought of quick

All floated, all of us floated
in our silk lined arc
petals of roses engraved in our minds
all was lush

once upon a time
when time fell behind

[WIREMAN]

call the jam judih!
call the jam!......once upon a time
we was all jammin'...O say can't ya
see? and I know ya can cause
not just you and me, all of us was
in action poetry land....til the thing got
cut off....slam.....then -D gave us a new poetry
land.....and I wired found AC...with a bevy of awesome
folks who believe in the word and poetry....and there
you were......doin' the judih words and now we're here
jammin' the word for keeps and I wake up wired and write
while everyone else in Bawlmer sleeps....so call the Jam
judih......ain't it about time again.....tag your it....now it's
time for me to split and head back to rebar land.............................................