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86 · Dec 2020
Dust To Dust
Gypsy Dec 2020
Sheets of zinc changing under my foot
The dreamless face of the Sun's steady acetylene
Migrant envies - watched the skies burn..

They want their dead back
My wife, my children, my home
Over the pink fires, where the natives walked
Quietly Envied, quietly Human
With sea-green eyes, with every reflection..

I'm nobody, I'm a nation - folding the sea
Telling mourners around the graveside
I loved them all, the drowned, the lonely
The sailors at Sea, dividing the absent...
On this unlucky island
We all know
Our dust is Industrial.


Gypsy
85 · Dec 2020
Crazy Saints
Gypsy Dec 2020
The wheel of karma
That half-mad bag lady
The austere, unsmiling mother superior
A mumbling, scarred janitor
Survivor of Auschwitz.
A haunted music teacher
Anonymous holy man
I bring them before my mind's eye
Your personal Obi Wan Kenobi
These old friends of my soul,
Awakening to dance their day
At home in this heart
It's an ugly woods
Infinite shades of neutral.
Contemplative acts
Silences
Poems,
Honor this world
With the eye of love
A feast of being
A walk among bare oaks
The souls own meager feathers

Gypsy
85 · Dec 2020
In A Shallow Cave
Gypsy Dec 2020
Onward -
Towards the derangement of our destiny
Enveloped in an emotional maelstrom
Tortured by shame
Exalted by visions
The love and the desperate
The shadows of moving puppets
Cast on walls of fire
Shut in this cave of our own bodies
Cleanse our doors of perception
The spell of the infinite
Break this narrow chamber of our cavern.

Gypsy
84 · Dec 2020
Language Of Priorities
Gypsy Dec 2020
A generation away from extinction
You slaves of lonely self-abnegating sacrificial instincts
You slave of slaves
Aiding in the acquisition
Paying for existing
With terror and slaughter
Slaves of the capitalists
Mystic fear of consequences
No sense of faith
No sense of direction
A love of drudgery
Only the paranoid survive
Courted by incapacity..

So cryptic, almost meaningless.

Government murdered minds and spirit
With ruin upon ruin
As indefensible as infanticide
The blood of the seed
Ignorant and free
A volcano of revolution
In a state of civilization.

Gypsy
84 · Dec 2020
The Grey Dawn (For L.C)
Gypsy Dec 2020
Solemn hours,  that mock the night

The grey dawn
Paved the meadows with gentle odours..
These visionary flowers
Murmuring,  collecting tears.
This cradle to a memory
Calm and mild
Like friends - Once parted

His song now silent, the Spirit mute..

Gypsy
84 · Dec 2020
Beguile Me
Gypsy Dec 2020
A cruel wind the Coldest and Harshest of all
I foolishly surrender my mind
I will roll the dice
In the blackness of these skies.

Gypsy
84 · Dec 2020
Crucified
Gypsy Dec 2020
The pain
Pleasure
The cutting away
The red flesh,  
Comforts
That forsaken longing

The last thought
Comes and goes
The dying breathe,  
Beached, in a dream
Worthy of an encore
That sustainable wanting - more

Crucified

Those dreams  
This coming together
Of all that makes a life
That easy chair of having
That greedy filled feeling
The lottery of birth
Laughs in your face

That cast off life you've worn
This hand me down existence
Past from generation to generation
All you've ever known
Never shiny Never new
The dead eyes of youth
Watch your every move
Covert your every wish

The king is dead
Long live the king

Gypsy
83 · Dec 2020
My Distance
Gypsy Dec 2020
Her tonic...
The flower that I see
Fades into the nearest shadow

Would you like to know our future?
Mystery and awe
In a world without dragons
Enjoy,
Endure,
Survive
The soul, revealed
The world
The visible,
The invisible
A wide web of chaos

Do you really believe in destiny?
The colour of the moon
The dream
All the clichés
Wrapped in an enigma

Have you ever ached with the sheer beauty of it?
Rushed after her in pursuit
Where everything becomes essence..

Gypsy
83 · Dec 2020
Untitled
Gypsy Dec 2020
Who will **** us children forever
Cover the cheeks of this world with tears
With horror
With fear
To stand at the portals of the tomb,
The vestibule of eternity
Consigned to eternal damnation
A gulph of devouring flames
In and beyond oneself and the universe.

Gypsy
83 · Dec 2020
The Slide
Gypsy Dec 2020
Bored, uninformed
Like an outdated explosion
Tense, musty,  forced silence
Going down the long slide -  voices without faces
Large scale versus, seemingly at random
So permanent, blank and true
We avoid them as unlucky places
Where promises are kept...

Gypsy
83 · Dec 2020
LOVE!!
Gypsy Dec 2020
My mind is the Prometheus
Surrounded by unknown things
Afraid of the air,
Afraid of the night.
Afraid of everything - love
If you are not my reality,
Love!!
Hell is the ******* real
The paranoia of my sweet dreams.
To be or not to be?
Here.. galaxies circumambulate
Love!!
You will find that I bleed you
Love!!
I hear your deafening voice
Like the sound of flowers blooming
Awaiting that personal phone call from Jesus
Love!!
My chaos flux
Flexibility
Ambiguity
Multi-dimensionality
That kind of ****** liveliness
Welcome to the paradox
From my brains flesh
This illusion
This ocean called the world
Love!!
A minor fragment of the pattern

Gypsy
82 · Dec 2020
Primitive Maestro
Gypsy Dec 2020
The dark street
A half-forsaken chasm
The curse of midnight's children
Victims of their times
The annihilating whirlpool of the multitudes
The church
Grew lonely about them
Unable to live or die in peace
Like a child whose mother was forsaken...

Gypsy
81 · Dec 2020
River of Silence
Gypsy Dec 2020
Mythology is our drug
The black thing
The dark water
Inhabiting the mind.
A universe of cause and effect
Neither creed nor allegory
Not to liberate but to limit
Deny the infinite
The dream-built ship of the god Yoharneth-Lehai
Above the River of Silence
Listening to the universe in motion
Lost in the weaving music
Until death meets us on the path...

Gypsy
80 · Dec 2020
Whispers of Nature
Gypsy Dec 2020
You pay in blood and soul
When the barrier between the worlds is whisper
When magic, old magic, sings
The truth of the Earth itself
Lures the Spirits from their tombs
From the dying pyre in the darkest forest
Where once I prayed for forgiveness
The sad clouds scatter
Calling things that don't have names
To have a life of their own,
Not an existence doled by others
The Tree of Life
The Garden of Eden
Their shadows come from the light
Lives with me, deep inside
Standing comfortably within its mystery
In tune with nature,
In tune with ourselves
In alignment with our all
The essence that can bind
A collective force reawakening on the Earth.

Gypsy
80 · Dec 2020
Quaintness
Gypsy Dec 2020
Drunk
He lies in wait for me
The Wars of Men
The opera of justice
Clothing cruelty with charm
That old hell
Wealth
Spattered with blood
That sick despair
In streets
In churches
Across a dead calm sea
Mountains
Shores
The marching of mankind's slaves
Finance
In a season of comfort
Poets and Storytellers
Painters and Sculptors
With a duty to seek
That rough reality
Embrace
Those ports of misery
The poetic grotesque

Gypsy
80 · Dec 2020
Matin
Gypsy Dec 2020
This moment of awakening
That eternity lost to us
Lights up my abyss
Quarrels with the world
The sacred aromatics of filthy education
Grumbling Beggars, Artists, Scoundrels
From that same desert - the ghoul kings of life
Exempt from all morality - nurtured with lies
Bury my imagination
A precious flame - returned to the soil
All those noisome memories
The hissing of the fires - fading

Gypsy
80 · Dec 2020
Fluttered
Gypsy Dec 2020
Pride
Half slain
Kneeling in silence
Prayed
Hungered for your love

Gypsy
80 · Dec 2020
Cease To Be Mind
Gypsy Dec 2020
Let reality be reality
Let things flow
We can grow
We can change
We can learn
Throw ourselves out into the open
We are exposed
No point in pretending
We,  outside our comfort zone
The space around us is beginning to grow vast....
Stored up for us like an inheritance
Have faith
This love is a strength
A blessing so large
You can travel far
Without having to step outside it
Cast a stone across the waters
And the Universe is on its way to being changed.

Gypsy
79 · Dec 2020
Ghost Of A Candle
Gypsy Dec 2020
There's a ghost of a candle
Lit by a flame of hope
Burning in a church of sorrow..
A cross
Forged on the Anvils of War
The souls of many a battle
Screaming Hymns of Redemption
While mothers and lovers
Cradle memories
In arms, that knew the touch of love
In arms, stained, by the forces of life
As
The love of nations
Echoes
Screaming Hymns of Redemption
In the fading light.

Gypsy
78 · Dec 2020
House of Love
Gypsy Dec 2020
I will face my reality
Embrace the Devouring
This experience of Existence
From off the potter's wheel
Give my soul, for love
Your skin-deep love
It's an act of faith
My unconscious resistance
Then - the miracle of surrender
Through this cosmic dance
We see a river flowing
Her feminine wine
A moonlit beach
The starlit sea
A breath of *****
To tempt her towards passion
Then unbraided her body
Kissed her closed eyes
We hug
Bathed in candlelight
Those brittle fragments
Every part of this soul
Every broken piece
Is a sublime chess game with God
The flow of life
The spiritual path
The gap between compassion
Surrender
Is love’s darkest, deepest region
The faith in his hope
Whiter than the moon
The artists naked humanity.

Gypsy
78 · Dec 2020
Betrayals of Purpose
Gypsy Dec 2020
The moments of silence are gone
We run from them into the rush of unimportant things
Unspoken painful whispers
Dwelling on all that we fear
Unwilling or unable
To be free of this modern machine
To part ways with all that is toxic
Hundreds and thousands of betrayals
How far we have veered from our primeval purpose
Turned and stayed sour
Cynical and judgmental
We widen this web technology
Race through our days
Increase the pressures
Stimulants to an exhausted nervous system
Between us and the immediate
A fire inside the charred heart of a burned-out teacher
Cut off  
From life's blessings
From our neighbors
From the wonders of nature
Slowly forgetting how to smile
Our silence has become a figure of speech
Hissing above the echoing vacuum.

Gypsy
77 · Dec 2020
The Curse Of Exile
Gypsy Dec 2020
Hell's sumptuous sweat surrounds my soul..

Sacred was this space
Sacred were the sweet strains
The noble pipes
Like those champions of chivalry
I slipped into sleep
Plunged into the deep waters
Your jaws around my waist
A brain so wild
Our serpent *** betrayed
Love pierced its eyes
So much evil survives....

Gypsy
77 · Dec 2020
Intangible Substance
Gypsy Dec 2020
This sensitive thread
This magic we would deem imagination
It affects the infected in an instant.
It takes but one word,
One thought,
One act to become immersed..

Sometimes an angel is found in the dark.

To stop it is hopeless.
To stifle it, demanding.
To think to master it is both improbable and pretentious

It is nature's drug
A poison we call emotion...
There is the sadness of division
This invisible hand that blinds our eyes  
Reigns our hearts  
Even among the Angels,
A Beauty
That's both ethereal and dark.

Gypsy
77 · Dec 2020
Alone
Gypsy Dec 2020
In the empty spaces between stars
Painfully visible
Entirely ignored
Alone
Nothing to escape from
Nothing to escape to
A life
Unlived
Rejected
Lost - Alone

Gypsy
77 · Dec 2020
Predominate
Gypsy Dec 2020
That needle, that orient  light
Your sad decline
By despair of life
Its language, like a dream
The smiles resemblance of the past
Its spirit, now a fainter flow
Some dark oblivion - born to be forgot
From fame's neglected hand
Worn out -
Its vain pursuit of you.

Gypsy
77 · Dec 2020
Pagan
Gypsy Dec 2020
A symphony of Hells
Has no power over Pagans...

Burdened with contempt
Slaves to infernal stupidity
****** and dead to the world

Gypsy
76 · Dec 2020
Tangled Spindles
Gypsy Dec 2020
A chilling sort of grey
A dawning smile
Your strangeness and disillusioned ways
Within - you've set your blackest flag
Your flowers of dissolution
Consume virtue with a breath
Belong neither here nor on Earth
Stranded on stellar shores
The tangled spindles of your uncovered soul...

Gypsy
76 · Dec 2020
The Darkest Day
Gypsy Dec 2020
I was hoeing
Words of tongue and pen
Despair, from the far side of absolute
The ceremony of consequences
So unequal, so unfair
I replaced one life with another
The rich man in his mansion
The poor man at his door
Baying for broken glass
The small change of illusions....

Gypsy
76 · Dec 2020
Wield
Gypsy Dec 2020
A terrorist spirituality
In a perpetual state of fright
A sappy spirituality
Such a benign teddy bear
An awesome, incomprehensible,
Unwieldy Mystery.

Gypsy
76 · Dec 2020
Man Machine
Gypsy Dec 2020
In the midst of the teeming multitudes
Conform and be dull
Your sweetness pounded out
Inside all those isolated machines
What secret compartments
An entire world
An unknown world
Born and dies in silence

Gypsy
76 · Dec 2020
Choice
Gypsy Dec 2020
In the shadow of loss
In every waking moment
I am strong, electric, and alive,
I chose to dance, to laugh, to love,
To live again...

Gypsy
76 · Dec 2020
Without Thought
Gypsy Dec 2020
Eyes -
Everywhere,
Hands -
Waiting..

She wanders absentmindedly,
She lights a cigarette in a cafe,
Concern rivets her to the ground and self
Her wings are clipped
A thousand fine bonds tie her to the Earth
In this headiness of freedom and discovery
Her spirit in an empty sky
Unique and sovereign..

She must
Find the world anew
Become a creator,
A free movement of transcendence.

Gypsy
74 · Dec 2020
The Path
Gypsy Dec 2020
An ocean of boundaries
The infinite totality of thinking
The umbilical conflict
Pregnant with the seed of purpose
A trivial slave
An obscure shadow!
Moving into the unknown

Those who travel but never really arrive...

Individually,
Inspired,
Imaginative
Their memory is myrrh
Their presence,
Frankincense and flowers.


Gypsy
74 · Dec 2020
Earth Born
Gypsy Dec 2020
These are her spells
Which hope thinks infinite
To love and bear
Her disentangled doom
Whose power awakens oblivion
Spirits whose homes are flesh
Her earth born spells
Her Nature is that Universe
This pyramid of love
This harmonious soul
Her language - a perpetual Orphic song
A solid frost and sleep
This sea like forest
Around, within, above
Like spokes of some invisible wheel
Quivers, helms and spears
Ruin within ruin
Her mocking orbs harmony
Her spirit of the Earth, laid asleep
This gentle darkness
Music and light
Through empty space

Gypsy
74 · Dec 2020
This Age of Beauty
Gypsy Dec 2020
In this age of beauty
We dance digital
An ongoing beat
Forever circling
Never ending.
We sing of genetics
Seek immortality
Like children seeking a future.
We tread paths
Once trodden by fools
With the sweep of a thought.
Brush aside reason..
We surf the net.
We build bigger and better
Displace nature
With castles of rubble
Nests of concrete,
For vulture-men
We devastate
Our souls  
Give begging bowls of hope
To those born
Or yet to come.
We swim puddles of greed.
We cut our noses to spite our faces.
We turn green to grey
Roses to dust.
We advertise pebbles as gold.
We are surplus to requirement...

Gypsy
74 · Dec 2020
If's Journey
Gypsy Dec 2020
If the aura of truth starts to wane
The shallow intentions or vile aspirations
The light of the sky begins to splinter
The causes of my blindness
Fearlessly pursuing insight
In this murky sea of complexity
Constant, in the center of it all
The unavoidable harshness of life..

Gypsy
73 · Dec 2020
A Slight Touch
Gypsy Dec 2020
Absinthe and *****
Coffee and cigarettes
A strange theory
A slight touch
So many personalities
The strange and the rare
A parallel instance
A philosophical allegory
The secret attraction
Spirit of beauty
Always alluding
Life and Reality
Children of flesh and blood


Gypsy
73 · Dec 2020
The Beauty Myth
Gypsy Dec 2020
I am searching for faith
The good and the beautiful
The mechanics of culture
Engineers of the soul
The bullet-headed many
Like their God of creation
Permanent and temporary
A lily in their medieval hand
This revolt against fate
Born of humiliation
This madness of art - Fickle, Freckled
Is the heart of man
His pillars of smoke
The face of the deep
Our primitive nothing
That grand perhaps
The big issue of our times

Gypsy
73 · Dec 2020
Drip Dried Souls
Gypsy Dec 2020
One more ride
Aboard this merry go round
Just another spin of the wheel
Another perfect plan
The mother of all schemes
The darkest heart wins it all
Drinks from the pleasures of profit
Rich by default

Give him his name
A pigeon-hole
The cunning of a serial killer
The perfect choice
This drug equalizer
The bass and treble of reality..

The disco divas of make belief
Crumble under the pressure

Bring him some of that pick and mix happiness
That over priced burden of pleasure
Join the line of escorts to his surrealistic pleasures
Watch his ****** suit stretch taking protection to the limit

From the corner
Eyes watching, masquerading as bored
His guitar gently wipes away a stray tear
The bedsit voodoo master fingers the fret
His bedsit altar
Swamped in ambience
His incense prayers
Follow old Cohen
Returning from the river
Memories of Suzanne, wet and worn
Begging for one last go
One more Electric Warrior
One more Dylan brew
For the road

Gypsy
73 · Dec 2020
Spellbound
Gypsy Dec 2020
The sacred calm, that vale of life
Whispering from the slums of Paradise
I was a dog on these streets
Some pensive Spirit from dunes of coal
Beyond the forest of the night
Praying to the carcass of a tightened drum
Once true and kind, that solving emptiness
Unreachable - changed from love to lie
Our Moon - sinking in their Holy Christian tongue virtue
Praised with sour humble hands, gestures and psalms
From the fields of a loveless land..

Gypsy

Gypsy
72 · Dec 2020
Awaken
Gypsy Dec 2020
From your perfumed dream-land
Into the oblivion of lost things
To the flames that never die
Burning, Yearning
Despising the world's desire

Gypsy
72 · Dec 2020
Poordom
Gypsy Dec 2020
In his frail dark boat
He sailed the wine
The red seas of his mother's blood
Sailed the borders between brothers
Every incarnated soul on this planet
The benediction of a pristine pedigree
Life, and death, and all that spanned between
Twisting in his life
Foredoomed to swell to our cold disregard
Society spinning their blood-red mazes
Where the threads of men's lives are spun.

Gypsy.
72 · Dec 2020
No Man's Land
Gypsy Dec 2020
Poppies plucking scant esteem
Into the sad stream of a dream
At last the tranquil perfect flower
Grown blind, grown spectral
Consoling shadows
The sighing of the wind
Lingers
Pitiless and cold
Beneath November trees
We wandered Speaking silence


Gypsy
72 · Dec 2020
Dread
Gypsy Dec 2020
We live on a placid island of ignorance
In our black seas of infinity
A weird yearning for death
A crushing sense
Small and weak and selfish
To escape the unbearable feeling of becoming aware
A dare-devil rather than a Holy coward
Battling my fears
My pains
Conquering my uncertainties
A dread of stirrings in my soul
I considered forbidden and criminal
To paralyze and quake an individual
Flying out of the corrosive fire
In so deep a dread of silence
The silence of many
Silence multiplied
The silence of a crowd
Your dread  
This defeat of all Government
Within eyesight the unfinished
Written by Dante on the Gate of Hell
Shakes the earth beneath us

Like a roller-coaster ride
The sensation of it trickling away
The imperfect vagueness of human thought

Gypsy
72 · Dec 2020
Surrender
Gypsy Dec 2020
The sweetness of giving....

The foreplay...

Folded secrets between her thighs
Like napkins
Concealed memories in the valley of her *******
She goes with the flow of life
A traveller
A Wildflower
A breath of *****

We - in love...
Upon our lips, a thousand lies

A moonlit beach
The starlit sea,
Surrender and Serenity
Our Spiritual path..
We from the old Magic...
From unseen times, faded memories
Many times upon our knees
We surrendered
Just loved -

Made life poetry
Listened through your screams
Simply naked Humanity...

Bring your empty cups
Your disappointments
Your failures.
Bring your betrayals
Your masks
All that
Dwells in you
Surrender to your own poverty,
Restore  -
The belief in your own guidance
Go within for answers
Nothing
Found in a book
Heard in a sermon

Give your soul
for love
Surrender to the Universe..
Lay your most precious possessions on  the table
And roll the dice...

Be the Art -The Artists....

Gypsy
71 · Dec 2020
The Storyteller
Gypsy Dec 2020
Let Marble be the cold floor
upon which your memories walk.

As cities are fed our young,
To quench their thirst for life,
The machine, rusty and dying
Screams for more,
Cries out,
With its every last breath,
Death...

We push further into the abyss,
Deeper into oblivion,
Our only moon,
A tide,
Made ready for the turning...

Eyes,
Blind to all they see,
Watch forests fall,
Asphalt snakes,
Twist through jungles
All consuming,
Ever ready...

Drunken tales of gods
Pass over distilled lips,
Into a jungle of belief,
In these Taverns of futility,
Tongues,
Dripping wet.
Bring forth lies

Let history tell it all
Let history be your epitaph.

Face me
On this day of reckoning,
sing for me
Of a truth from within,
Let me hear your song,
Sung from a heart so true.
Sing,
As men once sang,
Of conquests,
Of maidens fair,
Bring from within,
To the forefront of your souls
An everlasting peace.

Let those with hearts speak,
Let the charity fanfare be silent,
Let man be one,
Let Nature's reality be reborn as a whole,
Those seeking power and wealth be cast aside.

Let us take back our fields,
Plant seeds,
To grow true,
Let the young run wild
On fields
Where the only sound,  the sound of life
Let the hunters be extinct,
Let the machines die,
Let man be king,
Woman be queen,
Seek truth,
Around fires of warmth.

Let the forests be our home,
A canvas of stars be our roof,
Let the whale sing of oceans,
Let the Eagle sing of skies,
Let mice sing of greatness
Let man be humble,
Trend softly.
Walk this earth,
On a tightrope of peace..

Let this be a warning,
Of mans mortality.
Let the storyteller reign supreme

His story ..
Long dead, long forgotten,
Pass through your realm of dreams

His stories tell of hunger -
His stories tell of War.

Gypsy
71 · Dec 2020
Grey Dull Sleep
Gypsy Dec 2020
Love,
Drips,
Gathers,
Stirs the quicksand
Whisper's in an artificial wilderness
Pale rain over this soundless dark
Your spittle eyes  
Emptied of poetry
This nightmare, a purpose more obscure
In a rapture of distress
Universal love and hope
That pilgrim soul in you
Your shadow deep
Your desert of the heart
With that rhythm, a song
Your intellectual disgrace
Tingles in the feet
Between each stroke of this grey dull sleep..

Gypsy
70 · Dec 2020
Age of Prudence
Gypsy Dec 2020
I Only Speak in Blood
Seven times cursed
Seven times sealed
Murdered by my God
Turned my dreams to dust
Streets were dark with rain and harmful ideas
Its culture slowly fading in the dismal
A dark factory, its heart glows hollow
Strange and haunting
Eyes like little metal studs, pinned
Amplifies my strangeness
At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman
The threads of cause and effect
The primitive hostility of the world
It was not a dying state
It was a state of living
Haunting the places in my mind
Be with me always
You - lover, who was never mine
Take any form
Drive me mad
Somewhere between tomorrow and a thousand collapsing suns
You will always be the sound of anguish echoing off my calm
Invisible in the darkness
The darkness of our blindness.

Gypsy
69 · Dec 2020
Emotional Weather
Gypsy Dec 2020
Lost among the rituals
The season of our emotions
The phases of our inner sun
Within every solar system of the soul
Our own unique story
As turning as the tide
From the foundations of reality .

Gypsy
69 · Dec 2020
The Delusion
Gypsy Dec 2020
Our posturings
Our imagined self-importance
In our obscurity
This vastness
The great enveloping cosmic dark
The endless cruelties
How fervent their hatred
Their rivers of blood
Challenged by this point of pale light
This Earth
Where we make our stand.

Gypsy
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