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Jul 2017 · 197
Introvert (10w)
Butch Decatoria Jul 2017
Knowing what you do

Not just

Doing what you know...
Jul 2017 · 203
Fireworks (Senryu)
Butch Decatoria Jul 2017
"Cheers!" To the heavens!

Chrysanthemums igniting

The night's cobalt skies.
Repost, happy 4th 2017.
Jul 2017 · 382
Of A Feather...
Butch Decatoria Jul 2017
Birds of a feather

Share a binary plumage

One

Mostly with better weather

Hey Sam I am    With the band

Cannot without

One another

A bubble of no

Others

In elevations / in Evian flights

Above the trees

We breathe all manner of breath

Above the blunted trees

We hover high

Earth

Diminished minusculed into

The Truths

Our Universe

Above the blues and green

Where only the starlight breathe

I wonder what vast oceans

Or most void a wilderness

Those sprinkles of effulgent dust

Must endure

Beyond time inconceivable

The fathoms of infiniteness...

What dreams will swim

Beyond this breath oh

We birds of a feather.

(Wandering together.)
Jul 2017 · 434
Dragon (Senryu)
Butch Decatoria Jul 2017
Mad fire-breathing

Televangelist condemns

His flock full of sheep.
Jun 2017 · 291
Unto.
Butch Decatoria Jun 2017
Do you got a "type"?

Open mind and kind of wonderful

Hilariously adorable,

Then from Bambi into

Stag stallion king

A FishSparrow or Swallows-full Soul

A fat cloud of spaghetti

Enough for everybody??

Then what the ****??

Do you have a preference

A choice free falling

We got given the type of live

Worth living

When life is not enough,

Death is and is at

The door...

It's yours

Choice

Is free wheeling and

Fire sparkling blossoms

Fire just works

Love you light up my

Unforeseen

Regions

Of excellerate not excel

Exemplarl in traditionals lost

Truth seeking honest at all

Cost

The coconuts on that one, as if!

God's kiss

Feeds us

The infinite gifts of

What we do

Unto...
Is it me or is it you?
Jun 2017 · 233
Perfect (10 w)
Butch Decatoria Jun 2017
Poetry is the music we hear in the profound word.
Part 2 -  Love the loveliest of poetries, how so perfect, are we...
Jun 2017 · 532
Dinuguan.
Butch Decatoria Jun 2017
I have returned
Although I must,
To this glittering bowl of dust
I had to,

In this so similar form
The jackals recognize my shade
In the dark, they watch and stalk,
My moon to daylight sun

The seasons of my change.
The pupae without
Awaiting for grand mals
Or some winged departure
Of my light

Expecting me to fall...

But seasons stir with lightfoot
Pages turned,
Between the numbers in all that
Man's made
Hands knocking hours
Ticking seconds
Minutes crawling
Under every door

Like a shadow unnoticed underfoot
Moments walk on wires
As life watches from below
Or is it vice versa?
The Circe du foils
The urchins that we drown to be
Voila! Not much ventured
In the rings and side shows
We spectacles
Of flesh
Fallen and fearing
The feelings

Of just before
Steps
(Beyond)
If catlike careful some nimble beast

I must be
To return from the place
That once birthed and attempted
****** the unlearned me
I am too
American in the humidity
The parasitic biting
The heat

I'm a stranger in strange islands
Beautiful mystique
Of superstitious super strength
The beliefs become aswang legends
Come true life
The slaughtered pig as sacrifice

I vomited and **** out
My inner being
Waters of life projected out
The length of tongue and the depth
Of insides
Gushing out
Even through my tears
And delirium...
Possessed as tho' a lever had been pulled
To reverse what flowed in
The nutrients
The rehydration of excretions
Sucker punched to spew

And thru the pain I knew
The swine and its smug snorting laughter
And the old ones in the villages
Living among their own dead
In the trees and sands and sea
Their jealousy of City boy me
The threat I must be
Fearful of what I might ****
Tho I dare not and have not
Done
Unto
As they have now done to he
I have karmic grace
To make them mine,

But what and why would I want
Such long gone then and agains
Or rage against
In revenge?
At my beautiful motherland
The face of my race
The home of my blood

I keep my silence as their defeat
Render them
As a breeze through palm trees and hiss of sea
Rumors of the weather
Food poisoning
Jun 2017 · 446
Madeleines
Butch Decatoria Jun 2017
Looking for your Green Card
Mayhap Mayhem

Don't lose it now...
But you're the kindaguy

One finds (with)
A tiny piece a recipe
Folded up in his wallet
For

Madeleines
Sugar Butter Cookies

While in the islands
Alone among the ties
Bind me then
By invisibility
To now then: some kinda

Some Offworld alien celebrity
From some far off
Land
Made of money
Pots of honey gold
Over there
Out there
The other side of the rainbow
A milk box

Para'Illusion
Half delusion
Unaware

Don't lose it now*
That pink card
"Permanent alien resident"
With A Madeleines Cookies recipe

In your wallet's
Back pocket
Mayhap maybe

It should be easy

To make.
Jun 2017 · 4.8k
Ligo (Bathe)
Butch Decatoria Jun 2017
Rain dancers

Children bring forth

The deluge

Joyous and ****

Boogie away the heat of our Cebu

Wash away the grime

The worries of Times

The sufferings

Of war, in Mindanao, in you...

Dance oh Children

Of Sulu seas

Blissful droplets

Mini Filipinos me

Though the air force jets

Thunder overhead

Weep not lil ones

They are further dead & gone

And now in these drops of sky

We drank

Bathed in the Life

Which we give thanks

So, bring forth

All earthly deluge

We babes of Cebu

Shower

In the sacrosanct

Blossom in the truth.

(this is my Philippines)

I am You.
Jun 2017 · 714
Jive & Mashed
Butch Decatoria Jun 2017
Condoms, oil burners, shattered glass

The homeless homies homemade shizz

Now Chris can't sit still in class

Pounding the pavement with kisses to heaven

All hustlers sell

Dippin Dots

Wrapped in latex

Liquid to vapor overkills

The loss of will

From after parties after hours

Romancing the ******

On the corners

Quag **** hits schism

Asphalt littered with

Shattered flowers

Them chicks on the streets

Ladies of the night

Its matter of fact

Mr. Hightower / boulevard's class

For the hard ***

**** poor "G" learning how

To trample through his ghetto

As she masters each one

******* hand / jive and mashed

Chris and his gang

Up for sale (hot-**** **** jello *****)

For white hyperions and

Black mellow

Cached

Out / yellow bellied / thin

Such barefooted souls

Marrow

Easiest to break

When already hollow...

(Guilt and shame is a gun

To the temple

And heart

Chambers

Such souls all hollow)

Those Outs Within...
*written just before my move to the Philippines* --stayed tuned to this new islanders series, experiences in poetic form ...
May 2017 · 326
Want No More (2015)
Butch Decatoria May 2017
I want no more
of these clues left inconsiderately
to be found fastidiously like serendipity
revealed...

I want no more
of my own thoughts clawing at me
     branches of a nightmarish tree
          from some sleepy-hollow invention
          due to my own insecurity's deluged
reflection...

I want no more
evenings alone in wild wondering
     while you're on muscles, mouths a'plundering
          or if you will fall for someone's
skillful ***, asunder'ing,
writhing like a whirlwind's hovering...

I want no more
of abscent mornings you leave to place
     upon my tears-painted face
          because this reality of our ****** space
continues to break
my heart's slowing pace.
displaced...

I want no more
of my breath suffocating,
     clutching my lungs while you make
          the rounds of a good host
lubricating
the stiff to placate'ing
     liberating our ghosts...

I want no more
my skull confused, diffused with lies
     echoes of the past and how readily
          you made me cry
yet always do i stay
high...

I want no more
of playdates with internet boys
     rather be it held between us
          compose our own manly joys
be firm and strong with the choice
valiant of voice...

I want no more
of complicated wishes & words
     which we hinge on softly speaking
          like penniless lords
retreating
the richness of god's open door.
seedlings.

I want no more
your scent on my tongue
     or your taste that I have sung,
over time's widening waste
diluting in my lungs...
I want no more
     my soul's slow divorce...
I'm effing done. Done with him, of course...

2.

Now I will burn hot as
the daylight
first and only
sun...

I am here
living by no one's rule
all I wanted was
a lovely word
the truth,

Now I want no more
illusions or lies
O how I will keep you
and give you back the sky
the world

the truth
is... love is alive

just watch how it shines...

every day
and in these nights,

looking toward the light...
Earlier piece ... original draft.
May 2017 · 286
Street Symphony .01
Butch Decatoria May 2017
These city streets are as particular
As indifferent as lung cancer is to nonsmoking

The patrons of articulate
Asphalt and over populations choking

Civility and truths
Rewritten for only the Perview of the worthy

If you think therefore you can,
And if you art, then for show, speak your mind

We do a disservice to all kind
And to our laws simply Murphy

The life we cannot splice or accept
As imperfect as city traffic

Must we always deny and collide
Solving nothing, consuming blight

Panic if all we know is iron and war
I sense these streets beget the same

Homeless is all thunder and fires scorn
A mighty storm be headed our way...
May 2017 · 378
Icarus Cush
Butch Decatoria May 2017
Get on with your Bad self

Go on with your Hustle

Into the bustle

And the gristle

Briskly

Frisky

Grizzly world...

Go 'head find and get that paper

Let your greenback wings unfurl

Telling you who to be

Made

So dapper...

Go Rise above

But still only talking

'Bout

That Unfathomable

Love

Still wrapping

The turkey in a noose

Letting bullets loose

For hundred dollar shoes

Shoes!

Shoo sure 'nuf!

Time to wake up / this close to the Sun

Wax in' & Flossin'

Ill prepared to Rise above

Pretending to exude

The same kind

Of Love...

You

Go'ne now...

You Dawg you - A "g"

N-word y'heard in Everythang

We trust

Go'ne muss it up!

I just must know

(My boo)

Didn't you?

Give the World

This Life

Much Love?

Fire in the sky... Fallen

Too high

At dusk...


gone to fly into the eye

(Cush)
May 2017 · 373
Orchid #2 (senryu)
Butch Decatoria May 2017
No nectar's sweet kiss
Venusian lips moist flower
For bumble bee love.
May 2017 · 307
To Push A Man
Butch Decatoria May 2017
To push a man
With all your right

Got to kick 'em
Where it hurts

Not quite tough
Love

That man
You motivate with

Mouths and
hand to mouth

Off with you, then
Mr. Curtis's in shameful shadows

Rubber band crack fiend
Man, you real Bad!

Brotha man
Momma said, "he's cracked

Crapped out...
If you push a man"

“Make certain he don't
**** Himself"
For Wally.
May 2017 · 966
Ignorance is Bliss (10w)
Butch Decatoria May 2017
Happy the Fool

Who never will anger

At the world.
May 2017 · 927
Over The Hill (10w)
Butch Decatoria May 2017
Men grow up

Boys refuse

Truth abides

Relinquish old youths.
May 2017 · 1.1k
Unmet Needs (10w)
Butch Decatoria May 2017
An itch loudly pines

Within

Like molting

Cicadas'

White noise.
May 2017 · 297
Mosaic #2 (senryu)
Butch Decatoria May 2017
Bright ceramic shards
Cemented frames dream catchers
Resurrection Art.
May 2017 · 401
Foolhardy (senryu)
Butch Decatoria May 2017
Don't mistake the heart

As Thoughtful, when those in love

Are fools rushing in...
May 2017 · 2.2k
Noble Ideas (10w)
Butch Decatoria May 2017
From nothing but

Cerebral constructs

Mind becoming

Matter

Spontaneously

Combusts.
May 2017 · 1.3k
Abrazo (10w)
Butch Decatoria May 2017
How Mornings open

The day with wonder,

Loveliest

Of bosoms...
May 2017 · 332
Zaftig (senryu)
Butch Decatoria May 2017
The brautworst woman
Knew the best way to his heart
Voluptuous meals.
May 2017 · 514
Before I Leave...
Butch Decatoria May 2017
I would of liked to have said good byes
Look upon your face into your eyes
Looking for my little princess somewhere in there
I want to tell her I was sorry

Before I leave

I want my baggage to be light as air
No strings to bring me worry
When recollecting the most memorable
Letting **** go, most amiable

Before I leave

The America that fostered me, Disney made believe
My hopes heart filled with 3-D colored dreams
I hope to give my thanks even on the other side
The world might end while closing the eyes

Before I leave

I would rather not have any need of all that
Find myself in all this, happy at that...
I would of liked to have waved goodbye
As I fly away ... Heartbroken in the sky ...

Before I leave

I just want to know "why?"
What did I do so wrong? Did I hurt you?
With my "such a user" usefulness, a deadbeat dad,
Reasons running away with the ghosts of us

The ones that haunt me still (eek-gad!)
I will let go / of - flying home past the clouds
I will look down and feel how small I'm now
and how wonderful the world I see!

Before I leave...

*(it's not about me)
May 2017 · 1.6k
Breaking News (10w)
Butch Decatoria May 2017
I've become sick

All that ****

They broadcast

Kills me.
Front page Tower of Babel.
May 2017 · 1.5k
Mindfulness (10w)
Butch Decatoria May 2017
T'was Then

T'is Now

The presence

Selflessly

Forth(with)

Giving.
What about that word play eh? Cool or am I just a dork? Lemme know.
May 2017 · 370
Doorways (senryu)
Butch Decatoria May 2017
Your Thoughts Wishful Dreams.
Surface Between Swimming Breadth.
Breakthrough Free from fear.
May 2017 · 343
Stained Glass (senryu)
Butch Decatoria May 2017
Broken pieces make
The cathedral of your soul.
Stained light still shines true.
May 2017 · 287
Roads (senryu)
Butch Decatoria May 2017
Where all walks begin,
Some are quick to reach the end.
Wise keeps journeying.
May 2017 · 303
Passion Fruit (senryu)
Butch Decatoria May 2017
Purple and engorged
Bursting with seeds in its yoke.
Eyes close for sweet kiss.
May 2017 · 263
Hybrid (senryu)
Butch Decatoria May 2017
The Coy-Wolf still howls
At emblazoned snow ball moons
Alone & dire.
Apr 2017 · 295
Last Days to Brightness
Butch Decatoria Apr 2017
I found a stone among the rocks,

The stone was smooth, the rocks were rough

To the touch - a diamond it's not,

But worth more

for it will remind me

The vast volumes of memory's soul

The nativity of life in this skin

Beautiful people of the Sun

These last days of Brightness

The islands

The seabeeeze

Your moments of experiencing

Within

This bubble.

I am living as best I can

We are as we go/get

To become

"Get what you give" with what is given...

I found a stone among the rocks

We choose what hurtful words are hot

Pierce, stab, or cut

Bleeding out

The warmth of hearts

So what remains is

Rage

A sharp, sharp sword

What we say will only hurt

Each other

Silence keeps

This stone as keepsake

malleable touchable realities

In my pocket I named Lucky,

This breath of life

That we all must bury

One Day

And the story

of each a stone

A gem of thoughtful touch...

The lovely memory of

Eloquent words last spoken, not...

In vain.

I kept the stone smooth,

Among the rocks...

Sitting in the rain

Will you shower me

With love

With what words you find

And say ?

Love is a smooth stone

Among the rocks...

Reminds me of

Summers' days few

Love lost

Naught...

(With you)
Butch Decatoria Apr 2017
Oy!
sa an mo?
Where are you now?
These last days toward the brilliance
There's no immitation
Of Love

The next step up
Towards and pass the clouds
Beyond our sky
Where the void is star filled

The nights
So beautiful

We all dream to live
So ...

Maganda

Gabi

"Ito sa Tula'ng ko"

The lovely stars are brightest

In the dark,

Where we are

Magandang

Gabi

And your love is
One among
The stars

In the space
Where
Night is

maganda

Akin tula

Mahal na mahal

Ito.
Apr 2017 · 1.6k
Asexual
Butch Decatoria Apr 2017
Is it a sin to self gratify,
Until the lower third eye spits glue
All thru the night
Madly repaciously lacivious you

Almost desperate to find
Even when we were warned
Likely to go blind
Symptoms of a hairy Palm

When one can't come close
To transcend or feel
The ethereal bliss that glows
In the love made real,

And there's no one worth it
To waste such sighs,
Is it sinful as unwanted births,
or better to self gratify?
Apr 2017 · 276
The Familist (triolet)
Butch Decatoria Apr 2017
Were you but my familiar, charmed
A chain and cross for the Quietist
Oh Love, we will not suffer such

Were you a kept vigil, an owl in the barn?
Must keep the Peace, it don't take much
They may praise such New age heretics

Old words we feel familiar warmth,
Loving fewer Still we furious familists.
A poor attempt at a triolet...practice makes perfect.
Apr 2017 · 346
Moonlight (Senryu)
Butch Decatoria Apr 2017
Lucid the nascent

Sleep : deep dark subconscious minds

Water-birthing dreams.
Apr 2017 · 424
Halcyon (haiku)
Butch Decatoria Apr 2017
Idyllic Kingfisher
Your plumage stills seas to bliss,
Blushing midnight Suns.
Apr 2017 · 1.8k
Effulgence (10w)
Butch Decatoria Apr 2017
The Light

Gifted Days

Midas

Dark skinned

Brilliant

Souls'

Effulgence.
Apr 2017 · 253
First Impressions (10w)
Butch Decatoria Apr 2017
Can't

Describe you

To the blind

Best

Speak

for yourself.
Apr 2017 · 915
Would-Be Buddhist (10w)
Butch Decatoria Apr 2017
One Masters Death

By living Life

With Third Eye

UnBlinded.
Apr 2017 · 706
My Non-Other Me
Butch Decatoria Apr 2017
In cyber web paradigms
Reverse engineers
The digital pages without burning
Tree skins /
The doors to red rooms
Price and auctioning
                   bargaining
Yodeling

Between the crevasses

Again gone after
A mind's blown my own
To finally have
Known

Bit /coin
The mountainous wealth
We face booked them

Sure, they gave a billion
To
Their own
Flash
mobs invested
Our empty pockets

Making rich those atop the pyramid

Inventor of a log / a  rhythm / rolling
One's and zero's

Now two / later three

Bytes the Nth
mega giga terra
meta zed
Physics bits
Your name is a coin
In VR

You
Plus infinite
***
Ads for the upper echelon
Another plane
Light'ning catches
Fire
The .com pheromone
The internet was made for
****...

Vendors selling airwaves
To the thirsty
Low on HP
Low T
And A's

Tag them in collars
Type-o
"******" say
"She's Cray Cray"
For you her boo

for French
Vuitton
Yves st. Laurent
Fashion
Bleed
Proud
For bags
"Be Prada"
Butch / queen /
Trans
Phat & devilish...

(Passionate for always shopping)

Hooked
Trending now
The acid rain...

And as a poet
like most addicts,
Not wit
Or swift to seeing
20/20
Foresight

To have not known
Our common logic gone lost
The white blinding
Not a light
Happy to pursue
Joyful is the chase
***** cash
Let's talk waste...

Poor

When it comes to
Fairness
Of all ours
Equal opportunities
Better that we should
Have
Known.

The irony,  its truth...

Possessions
Posing
When they had it all that time

"What's that?"
Nothing dears

It's not important,
it's only air
And water and land
Milk and honey
Money pit sink holes
And solar flares

Your home
Your soul
Su casa

"God did not
no such **** thing
He gave them ****!
They own not us
They own
Nothing!"

Says me maw
and heehaw
In their Caribbean spa....

Who dat in there?

The cyber wars
So long ago tomorrow's
Been won,
Big brother's page
Is chalk lines full
Of all our pictures
And conversations
radio static
Lo a rhythm of old
Dots and
Dashes
Sos

"God help them, mother /he said
If he gets angry so hot
Come from the Apple's
i Cloud
He might...holy
****
Aye caramba!"


The end

Will

Be it thunderous

Frozen still wide
Awoke
Now
That
        we let go  
(Not my humanity)
Instead rather
Of greed / malicious lust /
the listlessness

The hunger
Of mine mind mines
The business of
Heavy
A currency of make believe
The reality
That we slave...

We are forced
Of a kind
(Murderous words and fife)
Now out with "old hat"
A.i. Simon says
Like / share / post
Atomic

Advertise and
Purchase the cool whips
Addictions
IT gurl
“Everyone I’d doing ****”
Juke joints littered with points.
So...
Hip

Hops
As Pops chugs tin

"I think I can
I think I can -- Blogs"

A you tube channel for
All
Joses who can see

Jiggle jangling
Jugs
and tambourines
Shake it out
Walk it off

An de Le

i miss my space,
Something for Reals
Where I can place
The pieces of my life
The art I write
The movie of my reality tv


Lets kik it / lets snap chat

In my spoken word
Get to know
who I be

Hello my name is __

Poetry.
My Non-other
Me.
4 20 2017 / free verse flow...
Apr 2017 · 266
Wedding Band (10w)
Butch Decatoria Apr 2017
The vow

Love speaks

"With this ring..."

Word

IS

bond.
Apr 2017 · 1.3k
Awkward (spoken word)
Butch Decatoria Apr 2017
A gangly youth with his dangling
Truths
Star Spangled
Flagpole
In the far corner

Summer nudists'
Cabins'
Cafeteria

Ladies not biting
Their webs
To his fly

Now noticing the nudist
Silver Theme
As daddy foxy
Ladies
are not goyles

Most nudists are old
And have let go
Fat shaming jokes
Turns into a game
Yo mama
so....

Cougar sells
Her Jaguar / Grand Prix
She so cougar
She's an expensive lease

For summer nights
Crap shot
Tossing
Fun
waste of time,

A gangly youth
Will spill
The truth
His danglings
Dip and spit
Viscous
Losing your ******
you
Star spangled
Flagpole

Can only tell
The honest erecting
The hard evidence
UFO sightings
Full
proof

It's in the pudding
Truth is ecstasy
Speaking deep inside
The gangly kid now
A wrangling man
Lassos a harem in his pants

His dangling truths did just fine

Gangly youth drunk off
Silken wines divine
Moist of kiss
Passion blooms
of touch

Honestly, the truth is

Quivering love
My Inner howl
Feel the earth move

Under my feet
Truth is

'will

always run to you...
Apr 2017 · 1.5k
80's Gold (spoken word)
Butch Decatoria Apr 2017
Raised in So. Cali.
Those early 80's on the beach,
When reggae birthed the bass
Subwoofer heart beats
And poetry woven into the flow
Open mics
Yo Spoken Word!
Rap as verse to mTVs

Bittersweet symphonies

When brothers were too heavy
Living in the hood,
And my friends
Ricky and Richy
And Ricks
Richard
****
Have no riches / wealth
Drawing blondes
For non
boys
In the cartoon
Landscape of generation
gap
Not so trendy cool
Unless master Richy
Loud animated riches
Mr. Rich
If I only knew
If richness
Lets you

Then Come be one of every

Minority
Say they can see

His friends-collection
From unique
Reserves
The wild
Child
Around the world
each birthday party here

His pals his country
Their diversities not his equal
As stereotypes
Subterfuge

Cliche
Equality pursuant to Freedom
So says the people

This that is
Priceless,

Enjoying tangerine days
Sinking in the golden
Tropicana
And cold colbalt

Blue bloods
In a darkening sea

The sky bleeding
Only with the life of the sun,
Where in spirit

Oh summer Lovin' nights

Cooling the boardwalks
dynomite!
Beach kin
skins
A many golden
Tans and the scent of
Paradise
Florals and cocoa butter
brine...
Tight fit bodies
Chrome shiney
Tanning oils

The summer wafting

Sensual
Through our basking
In rhythmic sync

From early days
Those happy days
Then when I was tween
On my Schwinn

Gliding
like the wind

Dollar movies
Sand and some kind
Of wonderful

The most radical arcade!
Raised a native son

By marriage
I am a mix into one
A people
My face
Has a race,
I am islander
Fisher King

Golden lion with
Interstellar wings

Please Call me Fishsparrow's
Dreaming

Though summer hues
My skin accused
Unmoved
Unclaimed
I'm a Golden Mango

Among the Californication-Ing

Indian Summer's with a
Torquois bottom pool
I could pass for Hawaiian
Most dark Mistiso do...

Raised in California
We are as golden
As the landscape

Americana

I'm laid back
As California as the cheese
We got the beef cake
80s to 90s to Kpop to Goa

The flavoring
Of caramel flesh
Sweet sweat
Footloose
Skinny jeans
**** undulations
Body
Surfing
Those summer waves

Toward our Nuevo
Fluorescent future
Opulence
So free and quite
Brilliant

The light
With life experienced

Fearless with Midnights
We Conqueror sunrise

The days I reminisce
When childhood bliss
did not die
Just down for a nap

New cats' days
Turning tomorrow making
bacon
Brown skin
My Soleils
Beaches
Soothing Mists

Breath of Suns' kisses:
Wakes of oceans
Peace

Oh

Now I lay me down to dream
I pray the Lord
To help me wake...


Every new day
So thankfully
Experience every divinity

That thou love
Doth make


Alive without regret
Of and by the sea
I'm raised

I grew up
California
                  golden
As is
silence

And Making love  

With You
Early morning.... On the beach

Life arisen.
For light means Day!
Good morning
Glory

A louder Grace
Beloved
Will
Shall listen...
Butch Decatoria Apr 2017
I've given in
Giving you this in

Black and white

Kinda floundering
Finding
Not a rainbow
Near me
The magic is lost
Fearingly

Like ghosts
These illustrations
Of the heart

The gifts missed
From distances
In **** tube dreams
Boxed in
When we give a ****
Only now in this century
Twenty first class
Calamities

Our oceans dying
Malformed embryonic cells
Of sea shells
She sells to the sea shores
Supply and demanding
Foodies going for sushi
Tuna rolls not in season's
Greatest catch
Babies of King *****
Vegas Buffets
(Hashtags hazmat)

Overpopulation
Cities bowdlerizing nature
Iron teeth
Skyscrapers
and weeee!
All Are wanting,

Hunting, stunting, grunting
Undaunted
We sport full
Stadiums like
flagella

Single cell organisms
Goliath

mammoths now we mount,
Life best preserved in ice
Gene spliced
Playing dice
A stadium obese
With single minded
Bacterium

Gone viral

Vanities and victory
Of youth wasting time
Herding sheep
Mastering a perfect sling / swing
Knowing where to aim

Without fame
Without fail
Twix the eyes
The larger will fall

When it begins to hail
Gray
desert granite
Rocks
Throwing, rolling
Stones
on high
Or from below
Mantle, plates
Tectonics
Floods
Don't wait for names
The Hurricanes
Categorically mad
A High five

Climate changes cataclysms
Undoubtedly
No need
For
Catholicism catacisms
Or celebrations for
Dunking drowning
Under Christian steeples
Luke warms
Water

Ceremonious
Ways to cleanse

Drink and capitalize,
Divide their minds
As conquered

The fountains
We deny our youths
By learning only
Monkey see monkey doo
Masses
Congregation
A peaceful gathering

Recitations
Incited legions
Again again
religions own
What we believe

Schooled by whom no one knows
The vicarious
Malleable history

proof defining

The shapable feast of mean
and meaning...

Since it has been
All about
**** / Black or white
Just a reminder
Reminiscing
from a loss
Rather than reason
as one family,
Much more loss will
Fill your glass
But let me remind you
That thirst cannot be quenched
With empty

Actions speak
peacefully louder
When words
lift
Up like into laughter
No news of war to speak of pastor

When a summer day
In black AND white
Is still beautiful
In the shades and rays
Of a Polaroid
Picture of the day
Star : Sun,
In black and white
Still
Is bright

When the sky looks
Drab in
Gray...

The cage bird sings
The rainbows
Bright
Soul that flows a river

The living day
                   song of words

Utmost
Hearts
The Beloved

poetry
Of
The truth
When we chose

To give love
The life

Our world
Balances...

Even in black & white, I see  
The rainbow wave

               In the sky dances.









**(Continue into poetry about that universal
Ideal or melancholy, represented by the color
Gray feelings or the visits into gloamings and
Mists of dreamy worlds that host the ghosts of
Our downward spirals and dismay... The I between
Stranger things and sorrows heavy feeling, familiar
Or alien, gray as multiplcitous a color, it's shades
Of Heaven or bones, paint by writing
your feelings down, show me all or none,
Your neglected shades... The darkest to light.
Tell me how your gray turned white)
To be Cont...
Apr 2017 · 388
Youngster (structure 2)
Butch Decatoria Apr 2017
Take it from me youngster, figuratively
I literally
have no possessions

But surely
learn from your mistakes
More of less of those
encounters

More experiences
without the hate
Alive and happy
thankful just to be

So youngster

now take it from me,
My experiences
stand ahead you...

Live life for you
the truth of whom is
Grace
There is serenity in being
happy a face
Beaming

Real joy is honest a being
Who exudes the love of Life, a light

That is the absolute
of You know Who
                 Soul
          that is a River
Doubtless
we began, now to see

The constructs of trying
Try a brotherly peace,

The lovely existence
without drowning the pearl
The suffocations
Subdegation
of our miracle world

Take it from me, youngster
You only rob yourself
of illumine nations
(Ask)
I've been stealing from my own/me?
Who-dat?
(A puppet)
If nothing else
no one will dispair

When no one cares
to wake

Time will cease, when no one watches

Now Pay
close attention to the joys
Of life you have pretended decoy

Live like
you love to live your life,
Truly utterly Fear  free

Breathe each minute passing
With thankful
joyful and
sincerely

Return the gift of chi
Most positively
the peace we send out, now
Just be mindful
youngsters,

We make our own hells mouth

Chose to be
Yourself
enlightened
Be youthful and truly
speak
freely
Alright youngster ?

Now take it from me
I give you love

I wish you everlasting

Peace.
A rewrite and shift in structure. Experimenting with a new perspective. What'd you think?
Apr 2017 · 261
WILL (10w)
Butch Decatoria Apr 2017
Make the streets my poetry

Write down what they'll confess...
Apr 2017 · 598
Walking The Dog
Butch Decatoria Apr 2017
it is glorious!*

A beautiful morning

Mr. Velvet suit

Softly breezy too

What bout you?

Mr. Velvet suit on the street

That **** corner

Looking for your boo?

Mr. Velvet suit

Your babay making babies

From **** jazz to city blues

A little bit more sad

The lone piano

Black half key in b-minor

Mr. Velvety is an entrepreneur

I doubt he'll sue her

That girl he got all dressed up for

The sweets

Mr. Velvet suit's candy

Shop

Holding down the bizness

This The Streets!

Mr. Velvet suit's company

Don't he dress all nice for you?

A bright summer morning

This here tiny corner

Of a great wide world

Sin City and Mr. Velvet suit.

Good morning!

****** ****.
Apr 2017 · 602
Gethsemane (repost)
Butch Decatoria Apr 2017
Get in a last word, since silence is golden,
then in the end all that is spoken
betrays the honest truths
the value of sharing a meal
sustenance to feel
fulfilled, now that talk is cheap...

Be more profound to take me aback
like a gust of wind through hallowed doors
to the hollows of burial and sage and prayers
where subservience of love
denies the body of its flesh
to please the ephemeral ghosts...

yes, tell me how deep your adoration's lashes
if all the deserts we've traversed
meant as much as the time of my worth
will it bleed--those words for me?
Are your words as bread or food
uplifting in the roots of you?

I am no shepherd nor are you a herd of sheep,
a flock unable to fly without a mind to think
I am just another king like  any like you
the last word at the rabble
a dying flame from the candles drinking wine,
beneath the sky of olives and infinite eyes
here with the stain of un-seeing
in search for a well that will not dry
for a familiar day of kind of rain...

Tell me what's a good word without one
made   by ****** hand of man,
one that is like music / laughter
a celebration's feast
teach me instead,

and please don't preach...

What worth is made when words are bade
like a trader of slaves to whom he's paid,
or a master in his own house at a maid?
Such business is moot in its absolutes,
                 a kiss on the cheek without a word
multiplicitious and astute
obvious in the eyes of company kept
                  brother in the dark I heard wept

A tree in shadows hangs the rotten fruit

Ananke
dangles like most words must do
from the mouth must taste as dung
often done -- invisible daggers to the heart
untruths
then less and less of brotherly caress

nor some kind of familiar can be found
no infinite wonder

the one and only one

You,
whom I have been
preparing to be made new,
to wake from the pain of this blister
these mirages we hunger and run to,
don't speak what I want to know
I already have seen the final show
and words are only words
unheard by the deaf heavens
selective with their ears to cherubs glee
what is found when the One above
or any of the many stars that see
our globe in desert blizzards,

ill regard as plenty as snow
nothing of the kind, or good in kind,
what word equals

the image of everlasting
Oh
just a sip ...?

There are only so many words
in a universe of infinite light
language can be made like jars of clay

simple like breaking (of hearts and day)

if eyes were speaking through our tears
how loud must we shout "Love"
before there's nothing that's enough
to keep us thusly
home not just merely
an EYE to clear / and still, I am
with you                                         here.

Push away the old world words
that once poured into my cup,
I want home to be as heaven is esteemed
take this cup away from me
blood of transcendant poetry...
Apr 2017 · 305
Jazzy Blue (senryu)
Butch Decatoria Apr 2017
Saxophone evening

Violins, the sallow glow.

Windows watching Night..
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