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I love to sing while strumming a guitar and to write poetry. My poetry is atrocious, my playing is egregious, and my singing makes mocking birds suicidal. It makes me feel good though, so the birds will will have to find therapy. My left brain keeps the house lights on while my right brain keeps the soul lights on. Welcome kindred spirits.

  May 2021     1 month ago

Submitted Poems 29 total

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
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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

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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

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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...

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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...

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I wish it was that good, Karl…’it’s a simple, country song.. Hopefully inspiring

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“The Hollow Men”. Bravo! And thank you for what you do for this community.

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Damn, Joe! We throw some choruses on those lines and people would be calling us “”Sir”! Wow…Broken Pieces is sweet! I can hear Chris Stapleton singing it, but I’d rather it’d be me. Let’s figure out how to work on this. 

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Dude, you are prolific. I’m trying to read thru all your works, but I keep coming back to, and re-reading, “Spiritual”. I personally don’t think it’s finished, but who am I to judge? I just know it grabbed me, and I really don’t know why, but there’s something there. Let it flow…and let it go. It truly is…spiritual. 

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I LOVE “Seaside that’s Mine Not Yours” Damn! Paints a portrait in my mind, my friend. Thank you for what you do!

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Let’s work on “The Witch of Aberdeen”, bud. I can hear it already. Good stuff!

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It’s ironic, Charlotte, that you and I both have poems called “Sometimes” and yours could be prologue to my inhibitions about posting it.

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Michelle, I don’t mean to be vulgar, but “Very pleased to meet you” grabbed me by the nuts and twisted hard! Wow! Gem! You’ve got game, girl!

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You! my dear. are a lyricist! Fading Moonlight is churning in my brain. It’s not finished, but I can play it and sing it already. GIVE ME MORE! You’re not Bernie Taupin, but I’m sure there’s some relation  

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Tanya, read Vanity tonight. Loved it! For some reason makes me feel the same as when I read Paradise Lost. Are you a Fitzgerald descendant?

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Molly…time to share

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The Co-Existence…” is great. I can’t say I’ve fully absorbed it yet, but it harkens on themes between science and religion that I have often struggled with coexisting. I’m a son of a Pentecostal preacher in the Deep South that grew up to be a nuclear engineer. I’m sure you can appreciate the “co-existence” issues I feel when I go, on those rare occasions, home. Good job. 

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Mitch, see my comments on “Sentence”

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This is good. It needs more! You’re opening up. The people that read our stuff have never lived it! They want to be in vogue because they are in the vicinity of those who’ve truly walked thru Hell, but don’t want the soot on their expensive clothes.

Fuck then! I’m not saying play to them. You’re playing to us…travelers just like you that express our pain thru words.

You’re tickling the tip of the iceberg here. Add more. Hell, we could make this a country song! 

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I think you’re on to something with “Nature…” Thomas. The line “
erect and strong, reach” is shockingly erotic in the middle of a sanguine soliloquy. You’ve got something there. It’s not ready for prime time, but you’re close. 

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