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Qualyxian Quest Feb 2020
37:37
    how much time remains

still remember Satellite
    with lonely lifelong pain

so hard to accept
     that all our love's in vain

the Man of La Mancha
     and La Mancha means "the stain"

no purity, no real security
     we ride that downbound train

kindness to our hider riders
     ain't gonna pass this way again
Qualyxian Quest Mar 2023
I admit, long term reader,
I wonder what, if anything,
Is gonna get through

I want the Impossible
The Different. The Unknown.
The Unknowable Who

I love movies
I watch mostly at home now
Reno Rendezvous

In my solitude
In her seeking
In her eyes of blue

          Chicago. Bangkok. Seattle U.

                         37372
Qualyxian Quest Mar 2019
when America is no more
the sinking sun has set

what will the future remember?
and what will they forget?

the foreign wars and violence
will be seen as horror story

not freedom, not democracy
not George W. or the Donald in glory

the racism and greed
will also be cast down

no future folk will wish
to renew that in their town

the lack of decency
or respect for others

will also go the way
which cannot be recovered

so what then will they recall
these people of 3739?

maybe Small is Beautiful
And Seattle is so fine!
Qualyxian Quest Dec 2022
Taxi from Boston to Amherst
               White Dress
                      373
Qualyxian Quest Jun 2023
The hardest corruption to resist
Is the corruption in myself
Frustrations. Frustrations.
Siena cathedral in light

Minority Report
Dune 2 is coming
Santa Rosa, California
Puzzling plight. Puzzling plight.

Trappist 1 exoplanets
Extrasolar water
At times coincidence
Sleeping late and long

Buddhamind in Bangkok
Som tam. Yellow curry.
a little trust, much worry
Bryan Adams song

      gathering throng
Not 1776. 3772.
Susan Darlene Meek
Susan Meek not Sue

I'm tired
Lonely
Carolina blue

Tacos today
Coke
It's true

           Seattle U.
Qualyxian Quest Dec 2024
Women are more interesting
And more dangerous, it's true
Seattle is grey and green
I listen to U2

Do the best I can
The best that I can do
Take my little rest
Read at Seattle U.

                  3772
Qualyxian Quest Feb 2023
Coincidence is interesting
I don't really understand
Names, numbers, words
All across this Lost Land

I'm gonna go down fighting
But today tonight I wait
Please protection for my boys
Un pequito peace for Cate

                  Dormir
Qualyxian Quest Nov 2023
I keep writing because I ...
Nothin' else to do
In my solitude
I still remember U

                 3772
Qualyxian Quest Dec 2022
The Americans are far more lost than found
Bewildering diversity
Guns
2

Ordinary people do their jobs
Need money
Pay bills
U

Threats bear down
Darkness
Fear
Few

Mustard seeds
Singles to left
Memories
Blue

                    3772
Qualyxian Quest Dec 2022
American politics is chaos and despair
But my American life is quiet
European cities are more beautiful
Thailand: you should fly it.

Fatherhood is quiet joy
My beloved boys do grow
Seattle grey and green
Reno silver snow

Her hair was long and brown
My eyes are glasses green
Death is the mother of beauty, he said
Ah! When she was 17

I saw her standing there
Saw her dancing too
When I die, please Thai Wai
Then I'll die right into you

           Pondicherry Zoo
                   3772
Qualyxian Quest Oct 2022
No desire for Fame
But a desire to be read
Seattle U. Library
Long after I am dead

In my solitude
Memories. Regrets.
Ridin' hard to catch that herd
He ain't caught 'em yet

American women are children
The house is still on Fire
Taipei, Taiwan typhoon
On up from the muck and mire

I like movie theaters
Basketball, women's hair
Marguerite Porete
Exoplanet glare

             Aliens. But where?
I've got an atheist in me
And a monk too
Hair handed monk
Susan Meek not Sue

I'd like to write a poem
That one could say did flew
Trappist 1 again
Carolina blue

                     3772
Qualyxian Quest Dec 2023
Everything is disappointment
Everything is pain
She's a blue eyed beauty
Walks in Purple Rain

Solitude is freedom
And lonely, lonely blue
I try to do my best
I give my heart to you

                  3772
Qualyxian Quest Jul 2023
Wanting to connect to the future
Long after I am dead
My sins were pornographic
But were my poems read?

24 hours in Korea
I like it yes I do
Scarred by Chicago
Scarred.

                  Mu
Qualyxian Quest May 2024
Everything is disappointment
Everything is pain
She's a blue eyed beauty
Walks in Purple Rain

Solitude is freedom
And lonely, lonely blue
I try to do my best
I give my heart to you

                  3772
Qualyxian Quest Apr 2023
Pretty desperate desire for influence at times
Reality is very little
In my solitude
Si Samut Prakan

Science fiction bookstore
Cycling by the Baltic
Tak tak tak
Tak Gamla Stan

Rainy Night in Georgia
In Savannah we drank tea
Adonis in Atlanta
Yea verily

                  3773
There is no life after death
Is there life before?
Lights go down on the city
Inner Harbor, Baltimore

Migrants on the run
God bless the poor
Un pequito fun
3774

                    Senyor!
Qualyxian Quest Oct 2023
Ben Shapiro spews hate
Another chance to meditate
Wait, wait. Wait wait wait.
David Markson levitates?

                3788
Qualyxian Quest Sep 2020
Leonardo's library
37 volumes
David Markson
The Last Novel
Qualyxian Quest Aug 2020
37 and 72
Catteleya and Lee-Tal

Rieko gave the Kyoto view
Trump esta muy mal

The bipolar gave me poetry
The bipolar ****** my life

I'm so often scared and tired
I hope for hidden things in Strife.
Qualyxian Quest Jun 2023
Scarred by Chicago
But 3 prayers
3 prayers
Wendy Wendy Whoa!

             Snow
Qualyxian Quest Jun 2020
It's possible to journey
Without hope
But still gratitude at times

All things decay
A slippery *****
But still we find some rhymes

I now eat
Vegetarian tacos
With the juice from limes

37 cents can be made
From 1 nickel, 2 pennies
And 3 dimes
Qualyxian Quest Apr 2021
37 degrees
Please baby please

I wanna be your man
Gently understand

My kind woos with words
Holler if you've heard

Can you hear me sing?
Cell phone ring a ling.

It don't mean a thing
If it ain't got that swing.
Qualyxian Quest Oct 2022
The little way is hidden power
Power in paradox
No man knows the hour
My name Todd means Fox

French couple in Dublin
I listen on the bus
Territory troublin'
Just the three of us

The Celtics played tonight
I like parquet floors
Moroccan mint tea
Dusky Spanish Moors

          37 floors
37k
Qualyxian Quest Sep 2019
37k
37000 words
yet not one step nearer

just enough to show
I battle though I’m a fearer

my sons are what I deeply know
of dearness growing dearer

as above, so below
will coincidences become clearer?
Qualyxian Quest Jan 2023
All the news is bad again
Kiss your dreams goodbye
Walk the beach at night
Charleston says I

Kathryn Orr was ****
California girl
Astrobiology
Dreams of other worlds

A ******* is a startling thing
All that **** in her mouth
One foot in California
One foot way down South

Fly from Sacramento
Land in Tokyo
All that Asian rain
No one on Earth will ever know

                37 minus 0
Qualyxian Quest Jul 2021
Basketball tonight with my son
             Airpods. Swings.
                  Thank you.
Qualyxian Quest Jun 2020
37 percent
Superstition just for fun

Still my favorite number
Truly She's the One!

Father Andrew Greeley
Prayed Thy will be done

My faith only in Silence
But I miss his smiling sun
Qualyxian Quest Mar 2021
37 per cent on my phone
I hope a lucky number

There are benefits to being unknown
One day I'll go under

If time is like an ocean
And poetry like thunder

Give me true devotion
Lightning storms and wonder!
Qualyxian Quest Mar 2020
37 per cent on my phone
I now home alone

children safe but far
Trappist 1 - distant star

analogies create
connections between distant dates

like the day Socrates died
and the election when Trump lied

but dialogues return
and demagogues get spurned

one world after all
beauty, books, basketball!
Qualyxian Quest Mar 2020
37 readers
Of my little poem

Yes, I loved Arrival
China they did show 'em

Don't do divination
But I've read Mr. Markson

6th in the 5th place
Ill right where the Dark's on

The Americans are racist
Though often they don't know it

But when they speak of others
Surely they do show it

Rain outside my window
Peaceful in the night

Blue eyes, dark hair and lovely
She's truly quite a sight

Courage unto the End
Even if things won't be alright


                  Goodnight.
37s
Qualyxian Quest Jul 2020
37s
Still the 37s
Superstitiousness is revvin'
Apophenia, right Kevin?
Qualyxian Quest Jun 2023
America the Land of Ignorance
America the Land of the Gun
Fly me to the moon
Or to Taipei 101

Northern more than Southern
Californ I A
German potato salad
Rewind, then press play

Something wrong with Chicago
1 week in Santa Fe
Vegetarian burritos
Dawn goes down to day

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Mozart Christmas Eve
Joseph Smith was a con man
One for Mike and Steve

                   Reno!
Qualyxian Quest Jun 2020
Hug from my son
My beautiful boy
          Joy
Qualyxian Quest Aug 2020
Space rocket
At 37 seconds

Thai monk
You can check it

Seamus Heaney
Kamala Harris

I've been to Dublin
And to Paris

Cosmic Seas
Share us.
Qualyxian Quest Feb 2023
A lot of great black music
In these United States
Some serious basketball
Preachers preachin' up a storm

Northern California is often cold
Northern Virginia boring
La Florida sunny and warm

I try to be less religious
When I'm hospitalized
Adjust my meds
I'm on my way

Her voice is gentle
Like my mom's
Solamente una Noche
Galway Girl

             37th of May!
Qualyxian Quest May 2023
A lot of great black music
In these United States
Some serious basketball
Preachers preachin' up a storm

Northern California is often cold
Northern Virginia boring
La Florida sunny and warm

I try to be less religious
When I'm hospitalized
Adjust my meds
I'm on my way

Her voice is gentle
Like my mom's
Solamente una Noche
Galway Girl

             37th of May!
Qualyxian Quest Jan 2023
A lot of great black music
In these United States
Some serious basketball
Preachers preachin' up a storm

Northern California is often cold
Northern Virginia boring
La Florida sunny and warm

I try to be less religious
When I'm hospitalized
Adjust my meds
I'm on my way

Her voice is gentle
Like my mom's
Solamente una Noche
Galway Girl

             37th of May!
Qualyxian Quest Jul 2020
37s throwing down
Buddhist monk comes to town

Silence in the neighborhood
Meditation is the should

Tyger Tyger burning bright
In the my Thai forest tonight

Beyond the fearful symmetry
Sunyata: let it be!
Qualyxian Quest Mar 2023
I have seen the Gorgon
She is definitely a woman
I like beauty brown
Very solitary

Dread Annihilation
Finding them gone
Lombardi cancer center
Susan Darlene Meek

French atheism, French cathedrals
Quiet French bakery
Amelie
Mother Mary

Will go back to Georgetown
Grey stone, Men's lacrosse
The Society of Jesus
Universitas

                    Joan!
Qualyxian Quest Jul 2019
just notice when it shows
don’t know what it means

like I notice when it snows
and when she wears the tight blue jeans

I like Emilio
and his father, Martin Sheen

Acocalypse even now?
haven’t you heard or seen?
Qualyxian Quest Sep 2020
Geronimo and his 37 warriors
Guerilla warfare
Arizona
Qualyxian Quest Mar 2023
America began in genocide and racehate
Probably how it ends
In my solitude
I remember forgotten friends

I have not been to India
But India came to me
37 years
1973

Shiva the god of death
Michael Clayton calls
In my solitude
All Walls Fall

Was philosophy a waste of time?
Maybe, but that's alright
Good Will Hunting
Sor Juana's mystic flight

              Endless Night
Qualyxian Quest Dec 2022
America began in genocide and racehate
Probably how it ends
In my solitude
I remember forgotten friends

I have not been to India
But India came to me
37 years
1973

Shiva the god of death
Michael Clayton calls
In my solitude
All Walls Fall

Was philosophy a waste of time?
Maybe, but that's alright
Good Will Hunting
Sor Juana's mystic flight

              Endless Night
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