GregLanier's Poems

Here's the list of poems submitted by GregLanier  —  There are currently 29 poems total — keep up the great work!

Sometimes

Sometimes I’m drunk
Sometimes I’m stoned
Sometimes I’m tired
Of being alone
Sometimes I’m up
Sometimes I’m down
Sometimes misguided
Just hangin’ around

Every day’s another day of making choices
One more chance to grab what you can get
...

by Greg Lanier

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added 4 months ago
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Hindsight

This old house is getting cluttered
And the walls are getting scarred
As I wander through life’s living room
Of broken Mason jars
And I can’t afford the rent this month
I drank it in the bar
Ain’t it funny how you see things twenty-twenty

...

by Greg Lanier

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added 5 months ago
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Sometimes I’m Drunk

Sometimes I’m drunk
Sometimes I’m stoned
Sometimes I’m tired
Of being alone
Sometimes I’m up
Sometimes I’m down
Sometimes misguided
Just hangin’ around

Every day’s another day of choices
One more chance to grab what you can get
Nobody...

by Greg Lanier

 5,106 Views
added 6 months ago
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Cozy Comfort

Life can be such an awesome event
When you realize your last dollar is spent
And those dreams are not quite close enough
To wash your boat past the rocky...

by Greg Lanier

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added 2 years ago
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The Velvet

I walked into a velvet yard
and spake a velvet tongue.
Then pulled across my velvet eyes
the lids of velvet young.

And then I lifted velvet hands
up to my velvet face
to feel the lines of age beyond
my tarnished, brassy...

by Greg Lanier

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added 2 years ago
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Places in the Ground

There are places in the ground
Where treasure chests can still be found
But all the wisdom buried there
Has long decayed from lack of wear

How do I know that once there lied
A secret treasure in disguise?
I read a book.
I...

by Greg Lanier

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added 2 years ago
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Short Rope

Wakin’ to the silence of the mornin’
Reachin’ for a song to start the day
Disregard the surgeon general’s warnin’
Gonna’ die of somethin’ anyway
Peekin’ out the window
At the comin’ of the dawn
Sifting through some mem’ries
I thought were dead and...

by Greg Lanier

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added 2 years ago
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Run with Me

Run with me
To free your imagination
Touch the golden chalice
Enter the dark wood without foreboding and
Taste the forbidden fruit

Run with me
To find the gods
Dispel the myths
Create the rumors and
Sacrifice the...

by Greg Lanier

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added 2 years ago
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The River

There’s a river
Passing slowly,
Don’t know no rainbows.
The wind blows,
Birds calling,
Following fish to the sea;
The river reminds me of...

by Greg Lanier

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added 2 years ago
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Relations End

The sky is shrouded
My brain is clouded
The crowd stands in the rain.
Though every soul must bridge this chasm,
Each knows separate...

by Greg Lanier

 39 Views
added 2 years ago
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A Reason for Living

A pebble breathes a gasp of life,
The slap of birth - my shoe.
Then once again is laid to rest
‘Neath firmaments of blue.

Its life span is no consequence.
For what is time, you see.
The concept here is that the world
Has changed because of...

by Greg Lanier

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added 2 years ago
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Ranger’s Sky

Ranger’s Sky, the mountain man,
walked the sacred Fatherland.
Head held high with snarl of teeth;
gardenia’s trampled under feet.

Ranger’s Sky, the mountain man,
kept his feelings in a can;
never for a soul to see.
Ranger’s liked his...

by Greg Lanier

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added 2 years ago
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The Rain of Life

Wake to the ache of a cheap clock radio
  start a pot
  feed and pet the cat
  sip a cup
then peel open the eyes in the rain of life.
don some cloth
drag to the pit of fate
do the time
collect the change
stop and suck a brew for the road...

by Greg Lanier

 35 Views
added 2 years ago
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Playing it by Ear

Those who paint by numbers
Are the bleakest of them all
The art of mediocrity
ELVIS HAS LEFT THE HALL!
I say, peacock!
Poppycock!
Go rake your ivy leaves
I’ll take my pen and old guitar
And sail the seven...

by Greg Lanier

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added 2 years ago
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Pilots in the Mist

And so it was that the tribe of man
Spewed forth into the darkness of the wilderness
In red Chevy Nomads
To divide and conquer and multiply by 2.3
Many were the prophesied meek
awaiting their inheritance
A few more were the snake oil salesmen...

by Greg Lanier

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added 2 years ago
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Nearer, My God, to Thee

A brown cub climbed a redwood tree
and shouted, “I’m the best!
Since I sit top the tallest tree,
I’m better than the...

by Greg Lanier

 21 Views
added 2 years ago
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My Aeroplane

I want to fly my aeroplane
above the clouds
and pouring rain
To slip those earthen bonds, so surly,
I need to get there fairly...

by Greg Lanier

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added 2 years ago
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Mud Dreams

I wandered to the edge of town
And thought that I should turn around
But then a light came from the sky
That bade me question questioning why
And so I wandered a little farther
Unassuming - not a bother
When suddenly a truck came by
And splashed...

by Greg Lanier

 16 Views
added 2 years ago
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Mourning for Roger

Roger liked to play guitar,
But he couldn’t play very well,
So he hung around the few of us
Who thought we could help.

We...

by Greg Lanier

 13 Views
added 2 years ago
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The Monolith

The monolith beckons
from the electric candle light,
filling my existence
with the reflections of a desperate...

by Greg Lanier

 11 Views
added 2 years ago
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Midnight Cafe

In the silence of my dreaming
  visions clouding -
  bells a ringing
Sipping nectar from the altar
  William Carlos
  Uncle Walter
Robert Frost directs the traffic
  Wallace Stevens?
  chiropractic
Emily’s riding in her carriage
  ...

by Greg Lanier

 21 Views
added 2 years ago
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It’s Only Words

Ink and pulp and chemical impulses
Streaming from that oft analyzed region;
The void filled by sight and sound and taste and feel and...

by Greg Lanier

 17 Views
added 2 years ago
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I Got a Grin

I got dreams, but don’t believe ‘em.
I got visions, but can’t retrieve ‘em.
I got walls, they’re closin’ in.
I got ink, but lost my pen.
I got guns; can’t find the shells.
I got nostrils; hate the smells.
I got symphonies in my brain.
I got bonds,...

by Greg Lanier

 16 Views
added 2 years ago
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Twenty-Twenty

This old house is getting cluttered
And the walls are getting scarred
As I wander through
life’s living room
Of broken Mason jars
And I can’t afford
the rent this month
I drank it in the bar
Ain’t it funny how you see things
twenty-twenty
...

by Greg Lanier

 1,309 Views
added 2 years ago
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The Game

Look in the mirror and what do I see?
The picture I’m getting’s not what you perceive.

The ultimate truth is all founded on lies.
The world, as I see it, is no big...

by Greg Lanier

 30 Views
added 2 years ago
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For Goodness Sake

Maybe I should
Join the ranks
Of those who play
Without the pranks
And co-exist
Just to survive
Within the hollow
Of their...

by Greg Lanier

 19 Views
added 2 years ago
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Fool’s Gold

I came to the river
with a thirst in my eye
But the current was faster
than the vision was dry.
So I sat on the bank
and I cursed at the sky
And wished for a reason
to pack up and...

by Greg Lanier

 26 Views
added 2 years ago
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Dust

It floats
On wisps of the wind
From the ceiling fan

It hides
Until spied
By the truth in a beam of sunlight
Or in the wipe
Of a pure white glove

It collects
On the porous membranes
That condition...

by Greg Lanier

 16 Views
added 2 years ago
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Domestic Dispute

Cloths lay crushed on the bedroom floor,
In disarray from the night before
And I ask myself,
“What’s wrong with me?”
As I pull my boot from the shattered...

by Greg Lanier

 26 Views
added 2 years ago
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