My Green Journal 2012

CHARITY

Without choice
charity is not love
charity is not charity
a gift given freely
well use, asked only in return
but force, A fire
that burns bread and cake for some
from the time and toil of another
taken and strewn
haplessly as the favor of kings

1-11-12
248
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SHOWN, THE SILVER LIE

The truth will set you free
Without Truth, Hope is false
But with it first, comes misery

As chains must be broken
But first seen and shown
So too the silver lie
Is kept spoken
To demonstrate why
Or else you've learned nothing
And can fall for it again
That men are but tokens
To buy up the wind
That a man himself cannot own
That there is no wage or sin

1-12-12
249
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ENUNCE

Words are receptacles of meaning
The vessels to transport
Expressions of the heart
Beyond its human cage
Language the art of mis-understanding less
And learning through redress
And conversation

1-24-12
250

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CHANGE IN KIND

dust draped flesh and bones
raking up your little lot
drink deep drink long
you won't have long to wait
The flood will come
and desert be made swamp

3-15-2012
251
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DAY DREAM

'Neith breasts beat hearts of phoenix flame
Crisp lines of sight gaze and fade
As desire shapes looks of waning fire
Spring Rain breeze chills a whimsical idea
foolish
impossible

3-20-12
252
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ICANTTAKEITANYMORE

And as the drummer plays on
I chant
ICTIA ICTIA ICTIA
God won't someone please
Tear down their banners of ignorance and hate?
No?
As free men will follow the tethered lamb,
And bleat at the blood of mirrors.
So too shall they hide their eyes
And screech out any awareness.
As the answers,
Along with the questions found in silence,
Never come.

3-22-12
253
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LEARN DISSENT [A Composite Poem]

Hoist your candle beside the golden door
We are alive for this,
To be a light in the darkness
Saranade the beasts
Sing for love, sing of peace
Laissez faire, et laissez passer
<Let Do And Let Pass>
But as a shining sentinel
Hesitate not to ring the bell
Let freedom ring
In our hearts and minds
Make Jefferson's Bold Query
Agape our hearts must ensnair
Awake the sleeping
Teach the children
LEARN. DISSENT.

April 26, 2012
254

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STRING OF LIGHT

Aint got no reconciliation
In my heart
Forgiveness is hard
Not for the demon cycle
Or the shell
Deceptive or ignorant
Aint got nothin
But reservations
Bout that happy tone
Prattlin on
What darkness lies within
It aint chasin, aint winnin races
Comparison's a horror show
Bringing violent rejection
Aint nothin like you
God help me, no
Not like you
Good natured grinin talk
Alike in this or that
Inside shrieking hate n agony
Twisted in the dark
Aint nothin like you
Right and wrong can't
Can't be alike
Aint I got
Aint I got that string of light?
But where is the shine?

June 7th 2012
255

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MANIACS ALWAYS KNOW IT ALL

If you see no evil in Glee
Then you know not what evil is
If you laugh at goodness with glee
And mock it as insane
There will be no argument had
As rejecting external knowledge
Is indoctrination for good
To dwell on such fools is a waste
And we've got work to do
Maniacs always know it all
Without asking, sure to fall
The curious query,
And learn to understand
Sure to rise.

June 16 2012
256

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BE RIGHT

Black rainbow night
skyline a sighing
sight
angel tears refrain
awaits
the light
a blinding dawn
welcomed with a sigh
Wake
with cheer and shouts
see
grin
run
fly
be right

June 16 2012
257

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NIETZSCHE'S DIRGE

Haunting hallow hollow desperation
To be by action
And eek out a worth
From collective's fraction
Throw off your capes
Dawn your glasses
Be thoughtful
Ponder
Wake to the world
As it is
Inherent choice
To each
Life lived, is valued

7-15-12
258

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BLUE Gray RAIN

Aint the world filled
Aint the world filled
to the brim
with sunshine
Underneath
this rainy day
Underneath
this rain
Won't be comin back
Won't be comin back
too soon
nor leavin
nor leavin
just now

Dancin alone on a smokey floor
in an empty room
just two steppin it up
so's to not fall down

who'd be comin around
to dance with me?
No one at all.
No one at all

just two steppin it up
so's I don't fall down
Won't be comin back
Won't be comin back
too soon
nor leavin
nor leavin
just now
not now
not now
not now

7-27-12
259

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BACK

quiet violet spark
of want in dull tired eyes
unmet
quiant flailing heart
and timid eyes
hidden behind
purposeless neck and arms
still
jaw set, and then gone
back

9-8-12
260
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AN ACCIDENTAL POEM

A person's a person,
No matter how small,
Nor does their size matter at all.
The soul's our measure of equality and value,
Not viability outside the uterine wall,
Nor utility of the human shell.

10-1-12
261
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SATAN'S SMILE

Wise words warbled and mangled from a motionless mouth…
context censored,
& what's left intoned as threats
of death and terror by symbol,
rather than a structured resolve of men.
Anarchy is not Liberty.
Honor is not dead.
Though the monster now has two heads.
Tyrant & Terrorist.
The humble truth endures.
As Satan smiles behind a new mask.

11-13-12
262
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"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people." -From Behind a Guy Fawkes mask

"When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to

keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." -Thomas Jefferson
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YOU DON'T KNOW

I don't know you
You don't know me
You don't
owe me a song
Aint got a promise
or a nod
But give me a moment
and I'll
Let you peak inside, my heart
I lost my way if i ever had one
I cannot pray but in an absent mind
I rake my soul under blase eyes
Afraid of the world, hateful of scorn
lonely I hide,
Behind the mask of a familiar face
Crying

11-28-12
263

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©2012 ~Asderathos
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