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— Recent Poems —

• Ever think, feel, perceive something and want desperately to share it w/someone; and can't? And know you never can?

  by jared (i, iii, v), and cone (ii, iv, vi)

  I

  Ever think, feel, perceive something and want desperately to share it w/someone; and can't? And know you never can?

  II

  Yes. Yes! How frustrating and very disappointing that can be sometimes and yet

  III

  "that," means nothing; we do the frustrating and disappointing and yet

  IV

  whether or not what we experience is a direct result of deciding to actively pursue clarity

  V

  Some might call it opening the eyes, unplugging the ears and closing the mouth; oh and tuning out the committee

  VI

  And some might call it blowing the top off the social norms if some magic hand were writing the script
• He said, "I agree, want to do another?"

  by cone (i, iii, v, vii, ix, xi, xiii, xv), and jared (ii, iv, vi, viii, x, xii, xiv)

  I

  He said, "I agree, want to do another?"

  II

  "oh yeah," she says and opens with a quote by him, who responds with a quote by her

  III

  wait a minute now, that's not how this is supposed to go. She pouted a bit.

  IV

  Supposed, should, have to, must, polite, correct, expected, assumed, right, wrong, good, bad. A judgement by any other name still smells lik

  V

  e <negative anticipation>. She knew only too well that she was weak, selfish and let anxiety rule her life, and yet

  VI

  And yet maybe what she thinks was known too well, wasn't. Perhaps the real rules and who rules is yet to be discovered

  VII

  Stepping off into the Great Unknown to do all that discovering ellicits great consternation

  VIII

  Negative anticipation provokes fear and fear; great consternation. Stepping into the abyss, like keeping ones eyes open at the moment of de

  IX

  cision which fuels the astonishing progress of the headlong rush into truth, arriving at self

  X

  cision is especially powerful when used for de to make in with pre, for re and ex of, what we are not, so what remains is US

  XI

  that essential truth, the US, seems somewhat elusive; other times so very close

  XII

  The Truth is the I, inclusive of all that exists; the Truth is Love

  XIII

  how to bring truth to "Truth" is learning to love me, love others, love the discombobulation

  XIV

  Love is who and what we are, we need only let go of what is not, at deeper and deeper levels until there is nothing left but Love

  XV

  It's God's handiwork: a lesson hard to come by but throughly learned. This will change everything.
• Listen to the hemidemisemibreve, kay?

  by Chris (i), Kevin (ii), Trey (iii), Jason (iv), Dave (v), Stephanie (vi), and Abbie (vii)

  I

  Listen to the hemidemisemibreve, kay?

  II

  Follow down the ouncespounds and drownsarounds

  III

  Take a left turn once in pwnytown.

  IV

  Don't look up; they'll stare you down.

  V

  Just enough to silence your sounds

  VI

  They fall within reach and then float away

  VII

  Like a drop of rain outside my windowpane
• Open your eyes, I have something to say

  by Matthew (i), Trey (ii), Kevin (iii), and Holly (iv)

  I

  Open your eyes, I have something to say

  II

  After I've said it, we'll roll in the hay

  III

  We'll find the needle that completes this search

  IV

  Molten metal beneath in the hearts of haystack fires
• Home again, I find myself

  by Nancy (i, iv), Liz (ii), and Preston (iii)

  I

  Home again, I find myself

  II

  Humming the tune to words lost, back home again in Indiana;

  III

  thanking and praising the Lord...that we ain't in Alabama;

  IV

  She clutched her cabana Lilly to her breast