The Pleading Beacon

The soft, pale light of the clocktower face
a calm and heavenly apparition
changes my perspective
throws the rest into an alternate mode--
movements seem rash, abrupt and powerless
antlike
of or pertaining to the quality of lemmings.
Stop. Go. Walk. Don't Walk.
To the cleaner's, to the sandwich shop, to the hairdresser, past the library
under the clocktower which is
above the streetlights--our directors and captors
held from
dreams and wonder and things so that
everyone passes their emotion test
eyeballs chapped
and hearts stoned on
a 90-degree grid-pattern routine
deaf to
the call of the clocktower,
who every midnight imperceptibly
begs
us to consider Her pale, round face. The greater-than-this. The bigger-than-me.
If going right is wrong, I don't wanna go right!
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  • NastNast Posts: 127
    I'm sorry, I read it like it was Captain Kirk making an entry in his log...

    -always d
    The king of run on sentences...
  • i think this is darn good stuff...the middle could use some cleaning up, and a little direction, but methinks you are on to something here...
    i can still bite my toenails.
  • AliAli Posts: 2,621
    I'd like to know where this clocktower is?Princeton,NJ?Big Ben?West Coast Bank ?

    I liked it.To hell with the critics,I was never partial to sane readings-
    if this one seems so distant.I connect.:)
    A whisper and a thrill
    A whisper and a chill
    adv2005

    "Why do I bother?"
    The 11th Commandment.
    "Whatever"

    PETITION TO STOP THE BAN OF SMOKING IN BARS IN THE UNITED STATES....Anyone?
  • grooveamaticgrooveamatic Posts: 1,374
    I'm with Ali...I dug it. Feels very genuine to me.
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  • AliAli Posts: 2,621
    I actually just thought of listening to ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER
    right now,,,,,but I dont have it on disc.
    I have Rare hendrix on vinyl?
    :)
    A whisper and a thrill
    A whisper and a chill
    adv2005

    "Why do I bother?"
    The 11th Commandment.
    "Whatever"

    PETITION TO STOP THE BAN OF SMOKING IN BARS IN THE UNITED STATES....Anyone?
  • grooveamaticgrooveamatic Posts: 1,374
    Ali wrote:
    I actually just thought of listening to ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER
    right now,,,,,but I dont have it on disc.
    I have Rare hendrix on vinyl?
    :)

    It does seem appropriate to the poem, doesn't it?
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  • AliAli Posts: 2,621
    Of course...I'm sure were MINUS the War inuendos here on the board.
    A whisper and a thrill
    A whisper and a chill
    adv2005

    "Why do I bother?"
    The 11th Commandment.
    "Whatever"

    PETITION TO STOP THE BAN OF SMOKING IN BARS IN THE UNITED STATES....Anyone?
  • grooveamaticgrooveamatic Posts: 1,374
    Ali wrote:
    Of course...I'm sure were MINUS the War inuendos here on the board.

    oh yes...we must stay apolitical....
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  • AliAli Posts: 2,621
    Bullshit.I love talking the trash of politics cause most of em ARE trash!!!!!!!
    A whisper and a thrill
    A whisper and a chill
    adv2005

    "Why do I bother?"
    The 11th Commandment.
    "Whatever"

    PETITION TO STOP THE BAN OF SMOKING IN BARS IN THE UNITED STATES....Anyone?
  • grooveamaticgrooveamatic Posts: 1,374
    Ali wrote:
    Bullshit.I love talking the trash of politics cause most of em ARE trash!!!!!!!

    True dat!!

    You've had a lotta interesting politics there in Jersey in the last few years....

    (won't this guy be pleased that we filled his thread up with our conversation?) :)
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  • AliAli Posts: 2,621
    yEA...WELL...OUR GOVERNOR ANNOUNCED HE HAD GAY RELATIONS OR HOWEVER YOU PUT IT....BUT HE WAS A VERY GOOD GOV. EXCEPT SMOKES ARE UP TO 6$ A PACK.

    tHIS POET IS GOING TO LOVE OUR RAMBLINGS!
    A whisper and a thrill
    A whisper and a chill
    adv2005

    "Why do I bother?"
    The 11th Commandment.
    "Whatever"

    PETITION TO STOP THE BAN OF SMOKING IN BARS IN THE UNITED STATES....Anyone?
  • grooveamaticgrooveamatic Posts: 1,374
    Ali wrote:
    yEA...WELL...OUR GOVERNOR ANNOUNCED HE HAD GAY RELATIONS OR HOWEVER YOU PUT IT....BUT HE WAS A VERY GOOD GOV. EXCEPT SMOKES ARE UP TO 6$ A PACK.

    tHIS POET IS GOING TO LOVE OUR RAMBLINGS!

    yeah, my mom lives in Jersey and she drives across the PA border to buy her smokes
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  • AliAli Posts: 2,621
    I know....I'm going to let you go....I'll chat with ya later......
    It was fun Groove!Time to eat my labor day,non-vegetarian meal!
    A whisper and a thrill
    A whisper and a chill
    adv2005

    "Why do I bother?"
    The 11th Commandment.
    "Whatever"

    PETITION TO STOP THE BAN OF SMOKING IN BARS IN THE UNITED STATES....Anyone?
  • AliAli Posts: 2,621
    Or is it memorial day?
    A whisper and a thrill
    A whisper and a chill
    adv2005

    "Why do I bother?"
    The 11th Commandment.
    "Whatever"

    PETITION TO STOP THE BAN OF SMOKING IN BARS IN THE UNITED STATES....Anyone?
  • grooveamaticgrooveamatic Posts: 1,374
    Ali wrote:
    Or is it memorial day?

    yes, tis memorial day. :)


    I'm calling you as soon as I get offline.
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  • AliAli Posts: 2,621
    Just watch your language this time,mister.Girls don't like that on the first call.



    (I'll see ya later groove....It was lovely);)
    A whisper and a thrill
    A whisper and a chill
    adv2005

    "Why do I bother?"
    The 11th Commandment.
    "Whatever"

    PETITION TO STOP THE BAN OF SMOKING IN BARS IN THE UNITED STATES....Anyone?
  • grooveamaticgrooveamatic Posts: 1,374
    Ali wrote:
    Just watch your language this time,mister.Girls don't like that on the first call.



    (I'll see ya later groove....It was lovely);)

    Indeed, lovely as always.

    p.s.--you know you loved that first phone call.
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  • Quite a shocker seeing all these posts here! But you're right, Ali...you're ramblings are fine with me. And thanks for the kind words!
    If going right is wrong, I don't wanna go right!
  • ISNISN Posts: 1,700
    hey.....it's a pretty cool peom....puts me in mind of 1984.....or a nazi concentration camp, but apart from that, I think I understand what you're saying......and I question myself......
    ....they're asking me to prove why I should be allowed to stay with my baby in Australia, because I'm mentally ill......and they think I should leave......
  • Ms. HaikuMs. Haiku Posts: 7,265
    The soft, pale light of the clocktower face
    a calm and heavenly apparition
    changes my perspective
    throws the rest into an alternate mode--
    movements seem rash, abrupt and powerless
    antlike
    of or pertaining to the quality of lemmings.
    Stop. Go. Walk. Don't Walk.
    To the cleaner's, to the sandwich shop, to the hairdresser, past the library
    under the clocktower which is
    above the streetlights--our directors and captors
    held from
    dreams and wonder and things so that
    everyone passes their emotion test
    eyeballs chapped
    and hearts stoned on
    a 90-degree grid-pattern routine
    deaf to
    the call of the clocktower,
    who every midnight imperceptibly
    begs
    us to consider Her pale, round face. The greater-than-this. The bigger-than-me.

    The clocktower reflects golden foil
    and eases the sunset along shop windows.
    Across the street is a park for three
    with room for one blanket and one park bench seat.

    The middle of town is timed and steady
    prohibiting footsetps from forming too many.
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
    The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
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