Reverence

tremors
tremors Posts: 8,051
edited August 2011 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
Endless cycles of suffering to reconciliation
Endless relief dropping like those tears from your eyes
Painless reentry to the world I once knew
Here, again, yet somehow not the same
Never the same, never the same
Blessed and cursed by such a painful renewal
Learn lessons quickly, learn them and survive
Never would I trade it for anything else
On balance I've gained more than I've lost
Blessed by vivid skies, explosions in colour
And still I'd give anything to claw back that pain
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  • rollings
    rollings unknown Posts: 7,127
    tremors wrote:
    Endless cycles of suffering to reconciliation
    Endless relief dropping like those tears from your eyes
    Painless reentry to the world I once knew
    Here, again, yet somehow not the same
    Never the same, never the same
    Blessed and cursed by such a painful renewal
    Learn lessons quickly, learn them and survive
    Never would I trade it for anything else
    On balance I've gained more than I've lost
    Blessed by vivid skies, explosions in colour
    And still I'd give anything to claw back that pain


    That's it, man!

    Always never the same
  • tremors
    tremors Posts: 8,051
    Thanks dangdangdang ;)
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  • tremors
    tremors Posts: 8,051
    Dawn breaks, and reveals some new water
    Tide high, this inlet filling like a bath
    Surfaces, stretched out in liquid
    A glass cloth rippling from west to east
    Calming, just to look at surface tension
    Calming to see a different beauty today
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  • mysticweed
    mysticweed Posts: 3,710
    tremors wrote:
    Endless cycles of suffering to reconciliation
    Endless relief dropping like those tears from your eyes
    Painless reentry to the world I once knew
    Here, again, yet somehow not the same
    Never the same, never the same
    Blessed and cursed by such a painful renewal
    Learn lessons quickly, learn them and survive
    Never would I trade it for anything else
    On balance I've gained more than I've lost
    Blessed by vivid skies, explosions in colour
    And still I'd give anything to claw back that pain


    i've had little time to write or even read lately
    so glad i stopped by for this
    fucking awesome as always
    fuck 'em if they can't take a joke

    "what a long, strange trip it's been"
  • tremors
    tremors Posts: 8,051
    edited June 2011
    Thanks g. Hope to see you around!
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  • tremors
    tremors Posts: 8,051
    Loch ruffled
    Boats static
    A chime rings
    Birds shrill more clearly
    And light hangs on longer
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    mysticweed Posts: 3,710
    tremors wrote:
    Dawn breaks, and reveals some new water
    Tide high, this inlet filling like a bath
    Surfaces, stretched out in liquid
    A glass cloth rippling from west to east
    Calming, just to look at surface tension
    Calming to see a different beauty today

    actually
    i find this even more
    . . . more

    fantastic word flow
    rocking visuals
    you've outdone
    yourself k
    again
    fuck 'em if they can't take a joke

    "what a long, strange trip it's been"
  • tremors
    tremors Posts: 8,051
    chickweed wrote:
    tremors wrote:
    Dawn breaks, and reveals some new water
    Tide high, this inlet filling like a bath
    Surfaces, stretched out in liquid
    A glass cloth rippling from west to east
    Calming, just to look at surface tension
    Calming to see a different beauty today

    actually
    i find this even more
    . . . more

    fantastic word flow
    rocking visuals
    you've outdone
    yourself k
    again


    Thanks a lot. I've just come back from a little break up in Scotland, and our guesthouse was right on the waterfront, at the mouth of the estuary. Really really beautiful. I sat out there each morning and evening and watched the different vistas coming from the different water levels - high tide, low tide, it made everything look so different, every time the whole place changed. It was so quiet up there too! Quiet enough to hear yourself think, and feel your own heartbeat. Was good for me.
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  • tremors
    tremors Posts: 8,051
    Something falling
    Something coming
    Someone asking, something giving
    Someone somewhere saying something
    Something about me
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  • tremors
    tremors Posts: 8,051
    Taken to pieces, unmet
    Exhaustion to the fore
    Sterile, senile, staccato. Empty eggshells, broken glass
    Empty of feeling, sharpened and soiled. Bankrupt and wasted, wasted and kept. Kept from something
    Tireless denials. Frenzied and friends
    Exit, flicker, shadows, and more

    Exactly the same
    Every dim outline
    Exactly the same
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  • tremors
    tremors Posts: 8,051
    They never told me anything
    They never explained

    They did things to me
    Childlike, you don't understand

    Unreachable stages of life
    pan out below me

    Unspeakable anguish
    Impossible to touch
    Vacancy
    Sometimes it isn't even worth trying
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  • tremors
    tremors Posts: 8,051
    Isis, Bob Dylan

    I married Isis on the fifth day of May
    But I could not hold on to her very long
    So I cut off my hair and I rode straight away
    For the wild unknown country where I could not go wrong

    I came to a high place of darkness and light
    The dividing line ran through the center of town
    I hitched up my pony to a post on the right
    Went in to a laundry to wash my clothes down

    A man in the corner approached me for a match
    I knew right away he was not ordinary
    He said, “Are you lookin’ for somethin’ easy to catch?”
    I said, “I got no money.” He said, “That ain’t necessary”

    We set out that night for the cold in the North
    I gave him my blanket, he gave me his word
    I said, “Where are we goin’?” He said we’d be back by the fourth
    I said, “That’s the best news that I’ve ever heard”

    I was thinkin’ about turquoise, I was thinkin’ about gold
    I was thinkin’ about diamonds and the world’s biggest necklace
    As we rode through the canyons, through the devilish cold
    I was thinkin’ about Isis, how she thought I was so reckless

    How she told me that one day we would meet up again
    And things would be different the next time we wed
    If I only could hang on and just be her friend
    I still can’t remember all the best things she said

    We came to the pyramids all embedded in ice
    He said, “There’s a body I’m tryin’ to find
    If I carry it out it’ll bring a good price”
    ’Twas then that I knew what he had on his mind

    The wind it was howlin’ and the snow was outrageous
    We chopped through the night and we chopped through the dawn
    When he died I was hopin’ that it wasn’t contagious
    But I made up my mind that I had to go on

    I broke into the tomb, but the casket was empty
    There was no jewels, no nothin’, I felt I’d been had
    When I saw that my partner was just bein’ friendly
    When I took up his offer I must-a been mad

    I picked up his body and I dragged him inside
    Threw him down in the hole and I put back the cover
    I said a quick prayer and I felt satisfied
    Then I rode back to find Isis just to tell her I love her

    She was there in the meadow where the creek used to rise
    Blinded by sleep and in need of a bed
    I came in from the East with the sun in my eyes
    I cursed her one time then I rode on ahead

    She said, “Where ya been?” I said, “No place special”
    She said, “You look different.” I said, “Well, I guess”
    She said, “You been gone.” I said, “That’s only natural”
    She said, “You gonna stay?” I said, “If you want me to, yes”

    Isis, oh, Isis, you mystical child
    What drives me to you is what drives me insane
    I still can remember the way that you smiled
    On the fifth day of May in the drizzlin’ rain
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    mysticweed Posts: 3,710
    tremors wrote:
    Taken to pieces, unmet
    Exhaustion to the fore
    Sterile, senile, staccato. Empty eggshells, broken glass
    Empty of feeling, sharpened and soiled. Bankrupt and wasted, wasted and kept. Kept from something
    Tireless denials. Frenzied and friends
    Exit, flicker, shadows, and more

    Exactly the same
    Every dim outline
    Exactly the same

    holy
    fucking
    hell
    fuck 'em if they can't take a joke

    "what a long, strange trip it's been"
  • tremors
    tremors Posts: 8,051
    I felt it, flying down across the mountains -
    I swear I saw a thin line of people
    Snaking their way, as smoke
    I felt it in the beating heart, the scent of the pine trees
    Something pulsing, crisscrossing the land
    (We would call them ley lines
    You, I don't know what)
    I read it in the words of the hunter today -
    How he felt the heartbeat of his quarry
    Pounding in his chest
    How he felt the blood thump in his temple,
    Reached out and asked a question,
    Flexed his arm right back and shot.
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  • tremors
    tremors Posts: 8,051
    "Can I have a light please?"

    "Where's your cigarette?"

    "I haven't rolled it yet"

    "We can't give you a light until you've rolled your cigarette. Roll your cigarette and step outside"

    "That's my lighter. Can I have my lighter please?"

    "We can't give you your lighter. Roll your cigarette and step outside"
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    tremors Posts: 8,051
    One time they called them Mystics
    Revered the vision, revered the seer
    Round here they beat it out of them
    Today they're not allowed to be
    Today they crush them
    On an overdose of matter
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  • mysticweed
    mysticweed Posts: 3,710
    Overdose
    What, matter?
    Choose what?
    Does matter
    Choose other matter
    like unto itself?

    I am rolling

    now.

    Give me a fucking light
    fuck 'em if they can't take a joke

    "what a long, strange trip it's been"
  • tremors
    tremors Posts: 8,051
    chickweed wrote:
    Overdose
    What, matter?
    Choose what?
    Does matter
    Choose other matter
    like unto itself?

    I am rolling

    now.

    Give me a fucking light


    The world of matter, so worshipped this century attracts matter like wet sand becomes solid, grain by grain coalescing and strangling the world of the spirt, filling in every gap with matter. Fall face down into the packed wet sand and see what I mean. It hurts, with a deadening thud. The mind, once free to fly astral planes, roam open space to giddy heights of revelation, while held in check by a firm cord, has been usurped by the Brain, measurable on a machine, the matter, the firm bits of brain conquer mind, conquer spirit - and the materialists cheer this on - until 21st Century man is reduced a chemistry textbook of approved personality, approved action, his spirit a test tube filled and filled with cold coagulating matter
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  • tremors
    tremors Posts: 8,051
    I guess they helped me as well
    Strung strung out
    Inside an uncontainable fire
    Possessed
    By superhuman strength and terror

    In that state that godawful place
    Was twisted with gargoyles
    Twisted with the breath of pure evil
    Even the chairs and tables writhed with forked and flickering tongues of spirits

    That place, then
    Dear God
    I pray I never go there again

    They helped me, like driving a madly careering car into a brutal brick wall
    Helps the driver
    And if you climb out intact
    You will count your blessings for the rest of your life

    But that place then
    Corrupt rancid energy
    Hallucinating the walls
    Grotesque hall of mirrors, the living portraits
    Leering and drooling

    And me, down on my hands and knees
    Face pressed into the unfolding worlds
    That opened between the patterns in the skirting boards
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