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sultryevening · September 2003

lol-
but im sorry to hear about you and your wife-
relationships are so bloody hard to keep going

Radar(Baba)O'Riley · September 2003

Originally posted by sultryevening
its not sick is it?
id always thought that poem was kinda beautiful!
if i do so me self!
oh well

Don't you mean, "if i do say so me elf"?

It was beatiful
It was erotic
And yes I have to wash my hands now.

sultryevening · September 2003

Originally posted by Radar(Baba)O'Riley
Don't you mean, "if i do say so me elf"?

It was beatiful
It was erotic
And yes I have to wash my hands now.

dont say elf to me
im at work
this could cause problems
i may start shooting people with a bow and arrow!
however im more like a hobbit- short, love beer and smoking and gardeniing- quite hairy feet as well.

sultryevening · September 2003

Come dark velvet night
and wrap your vixens cloak around me
for I'll awake no more
if waking cuts my dreams short

If the glaring sun
or gloomy dawn
marks the passing of another circle
when i may not gaze upon you

I'll return to my sleep and dreams
and awake never more.

setaside2 · September 2003

and he turned to the Crow who had just spoken to him, a thought crossing his mind...

"Hey Crow!"

the bird looked at him suspiciously, "Yeah?"

"Say Nevermore!"

The crow shuffled his feet.

"Fuck you"
and flew away.

paraphrased from Neil Gaiman's American Gods a novel everyone should read.

sultryevening · September 2003

not read that
ill have to look for it
a recommendation from you is like um.. Mama Cass offering you a sandwich!

i will check it out

setaside2 · September 2003

except I expect that you will survive this experience, i think.

and Mama Cass? don't I mean anything MORE to anyone around here than MAMA CASS?!?!

sultryevening · September 2003

oh Seta

you mean the world
i was pulling your divine leg!

setaside2 · September 2003

uh huh uh huh...

you're still not getting a cookie with your sandwich, buster.

"I returned to the rock today
Ten years have passed since I sat
on your cool surface and gazed
about slack jawed at this place.

Immovable proud majesty
green hills and grey mountains
tops shrouded by mist
as if to hide their most private secrets.

the river, strong and gathering pace,
gaining strength as it comes ,
down to where the people are.
waiting to release itself.

Calmer on top,
a stream at peace with itself
ebbing and flowing
dash me like a stone

bracken, heather tears at my feet
impeding passage, but I'll not stop.
My eyes have not had their fill.

Bluebells chatter and giggle amongst themselves,
whilst honeysuckle cranes it's neck
to seek approval from the sun.

I am in to this one a great deal. There is a spot out here in Colorado that fits this to a T only add in one seriously decent waterfall. Paradise, night and day. Problem is that more and more people have found it.

Sigh. Thanks for reminding me. I need to hit the hills.

sultryevening · September 2003

theres an area in England called the Lake District
its fucking awesome
its huge, empty- hills, mountains, lakes- possibly one of favourite places in the world.

i took a tent on my own after me and wife seperated last year,
and wandered the mountains for a week, drinking, writing, playing guitar.

total isolation- it was amazing

setaside2 · September 2003

Wow.

That's all I can say.

man.. perhaps I can convince her to keep the kids for a week and do the same thing. That would be incredible. I would also pack my guitar. Wondrous, I tell you.

sultryevening · September 2003

a lot of these poems were written that week
it was such a healing time
it was near the field we used to camp every year with my school
but id not been for , about 14 years.

so to go back to same place- hardly anything had changed- same rivers, same streams, same rocks,
god it was beautiful
it was also fucking wet as it pissed down for 2 days solid and on the last day i was waterlogged in the tent- but ive found i can blank that part of the trip from memory most of the time!

setaside2 · September 2003

I dare say that the rain was all a part of your cleansing.

I love extreme weather. You can usuall find me in the top of a tree shaking my fist to the storm and screaming profanities at the gods. Tornado or no.

Bring it on I say. Let's live while the living is good.

What the hell are we all doing being chained around other people's money and dreams? I could swear that these things were never included in the original definition of survival. Neither were they ever included in the original philosophy of life.

This manifest destiny bullshit is for the birds.

sultryevening · September 2003

weird
i always fed them peanuts!
ill try that this winter

setaside2 · September 2003

watch it...

when birds flock to destiny the pecking order diminishes to just one.

and when they are full, and they are difficult to satiate, they stand around the remains of your freedom eyeing them, suspicious of any sort of movement, awaiting the moment that life may return from it's fleeing flight. You are the bait in this modern world of mechanical sight and where man's imitations of nature are vinyl, polystyrene, and tupperware.

the natural cozy is gone. the lightning captured in a cup. no force greater than the push of the air in a subway tunnel, cannonball ejection the only chance for survival.

and if you hit the moon? what then?

setaside2 · September 2003

Hey master of all evenings sultry, it appears that I scared people off your thread, and for that I heartily apoligize. So I'll take that thought and put it elsewhere.

I do want it known that I really respect your work, however. AND ALL YOU MOTHER'F'erS OUT THERE WHO READ AND DON'T REPLY lol FREAKING REPLY ALREADY. There is nothing to be afraid of. Hell we risk an awful lot just by posting here.

Sultry is a hero for the cause

sultryevening · September 2003

my most humbled thanks Seta.
Im in a dark mood this morning
so i believe its time for this one

and as Seta said- Reply - rip it to pieces if desired or compliment
you cant be neutral on a moving train after all

Windswept

it;s BACK
full strength again
the fear
i've studied and conversed
and analyzed and held council with it
but what is this fear of,
tiny shadows ask?
the fear is of my fear
a fear now that the fear will never go
it rolls on and gathers force
and strikes me
beats my head.

standing in the eye of a hurricane
a few small breaths of distance
between the calm of my body
and the absolute terror that squalls on.

in this eye I balance on spiderweb edges.

the storm had passed some three weeks now,
it never left, in my minds' eye it lingered,
a shadowed horizon,
but I was feeling safe.

I thought I was winning.

Now its returned,
stonger than ever
whips my face
windswept blood and tears
threatens to tear me apart.

Close that damm door
thats not MY escape!

it strikes
when it likes, no warning
free fall, rapid descent
eyes cloud, tears choke
it can happen anywhere
Anytime

Dark wind screaming,
call of fear and lonliness.
How can you overcome fear
when the fear is what your afraid of?

like placing a mirror in front of another
and yourself in between
repeated to infinity.
a viscous circle, endless
this is how MY fear grows.

couldn't rise from bed this morning
two hours awake clock staring
can't go
can't leave bed
can't leave house
this world right now
Help me
Anyone I love, please take my hand
and hold me still
hold me till my fit passes

the heels are itching again
run
run
run
RUN AWAY!!!

run where?

and after all,
it's me I'd be running from
and when I stop, I'd be there waiting

DAMM YOU FEAR
I'm tired of Running
Come Out and Fight!
I will defeat you
You will not win over me.

sultryevening · September 2003

no one got any thoughts on this

setaside2 · September 2003

Sultry, I had to fight those feelings for a couple days after getting fired... it came on the heels of our decision to get a divorce and a great many other issues that all coalesced into one black syrupy molasses mess that threatened to drown me standing up.

So I understand, or at least empathize.

I like the whole thing until the very last bit. It's such an about face that I had to sit back a bit, but now I realize it's quite human. I'm sorry it took me so damn long to post on it! LOVE YA!

seta

Radar(Baba)O'Riley · September 2003

I feel the same way when I hear Creed.

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