What can you say
out there in the fog
in want of the old fire
you burnt your last log.

The memories are hot
the pain you remember
beneath all the ashes
the last glowing ember

Don't bother to fan it
there's no fuel to burn
let it go out
save the ash for the urn

Turn your attention
to the wood
that needs chopping
do something worthwhile
like sweeping and mopping

Sweep out the soot
and mop up your tears
clean out the attic
let go of your fears

Put on the blues
then something upbeat
get on your warm clothes
walk out to the street

Follow it down
to the steaming creek bed
the mineral water
is something it's said

Melts away saddness
and heats up your head
without all the smoke
without all the dread.

Don't need a fire
the water is good
cleans away everything
and better than wood.

The WORD is the water
still living and true
all that you need
and all that you do

Lie back in the water
you're warm and your'e higher
be free and be healed
and forever on fire.

I have a tire
round my wiast
it's a waste of skin
I grab a hold and
shake it around
this waist of skin I'm in

I have considered lipo
the doc would lop it off
He said that
it would hurt for a while
when I turn or cough

I know that there are better ways
to lose all of this tub of flab
to diet and to exercise
but I pig out in the cab

Many a man has had a wife
whose words with anger met
we've all had days
where in a craze
said things which we regret

I would say to every woman
and to her irritating man
the waste of skin we carry
would be best off in the can.

Get a waist, Drink more beer.

time heals all wounds. don't look back....and get some rest and a good
protein shake and open the window if you can't get outside. Call 1 800
HIT HOME.

why do these things have to be forbidden? Man! ( must be said like
Napoleon Dynamite)

damn straight. make sure it's worth fightin for.

jimi you paint pictures of emotions and expressions with your words.

you let those thoughts just flow out like honey...

Ever been to a hibatchi grill?

AMEN Sister Chica!! You are precious and well worth the wait, Dang it.
You know who you are and don't let anyone talk you into giving yourself
up. I suspect it a man's inborn 'God given' obligation to try, and yours
to remain steadfast until they either lose interest and move on,
or....make a decision. Love is freedom, baby, but it ain't free.

Warm and sexy clean.

I call that one "ADVERSITY"

I heard a counselor today who said that she was brushing her teeth when
this thought came to her. For ADVERSITY....add verse....sit(down and
have some)tea.

Speak the word of God over your problem, and wait for the answer. Over a
cup of tea or your favorite beverage.

Gee

wind blows it off the line....or dies tryin.

i sleep on an old mattress. It is inspiring.

why thank you.

I love it....this poet is so prolific. like a blog, a diary, very
therapeutic....The actual poem reminds me of a jewish mother in the
makin, heapin on the guilt. (WHHHHHHHHY WONT YOU LOOOOOOOVE ME?????
HOWWWWW COULD YOU DOOOOOOO THIS TO MEEEEEEE? AFTER I AM GONE YOU WILL BE
SOOOOOOOOO SORRY THAT YOU DIDN'T GIVE ME THE TIME OF DAY.)


I wold say ot the girl in the poem:
Dear Lord. Send her a girlfriend.
Men can be like Yo Yos. Ya just can't expect them to sit in your hand
and have a good time.....uh yeah. They need to have that back and forth
thing and I am NOT talking sex.

does it mean.....

easier to watch the beekeeper....
than to stick your unprotected hand in the beehive?

or...

easier to read the New York Times....
than to write the stinkin articles,to feel the heat of the deadline, to
throw oneself upon the keyboad ticking away into daiwns early light and
firing it off in the nick of time, ridulously prolific and enlightening
as they are?...yawn.

tellin my whole life....with his words....killin me softly.

painful, ain't it.

I am speaking within the context of a new relationship. When dealing
with men with whom you are in a committed relationship, hnesty is
importnat. I am not saying she should not be truthful. There are also
times in a committed relationship where letting it all out is not in the
best interest of the relationship. Sometimes the situation or mood calls
for feminine mystique; holding back, and allowing the man to persue
without responding with sappiness....

In the case of a new relationship, men in general tend to need time to
decide how they truly feel. Feelings wax and wane and if the woman comes
on with her intense emotions, she is liable to scare a good guy off. He
also may change his feelings about her in a heartbeat if she is won over
without any effort. A man should have to earn her love and heart. That
often requires holding back. That's all I am sayin....ya want the thing
to come to a sloooooooow boil, not microwave....too easy!!!!!

Best a woman shut her mouth than have her man shut it for her.

Arab Proverb


kidding. a woman is best to hold back her feelings...

been 10 years now
I scratch my head
he last saw the floor
beneath his bed

10 years since
and all I remember
are the books he stowed there
last december

the mites never tire
24/7
eating up breadcrumbs
without any leven

He lays there snoring
after his shower
breathing in years
of fine powdery flour

Working it's way down
to hide deep within
the only thing worse
is our personal sin

add some liquid
and soon we would have
a mirey paste
a butt filthy salve

It's sitting there
under a couple of cushions
thrown on top
to comfort the tush-ins.

A wirey skeleton
against the skin
God only knows
the condition it's in

Never had actually
gotten the nerve
to examine the place
the or the purpose I serve

A maid in this house
I certainly am not
he'd would sooner be single,
I'd sooner be shot.

One day I did falter
when my foot went through
I pleaded and protest
this wirey shrew

the mattress
that thanks to
a pestering guest
will soon meet the trashmen
and have it's own rest.

Ashes to ashes
and dust to dust
we shake out the linen
but miss all the crust.