5585 The Future and I
[by S. David][art by T. Mikey]


Rejoice Rejoice
She raises her cup
In jubilation
A toast
A celebration
She has triumphed
Plain Jane the wheel
Turned in her favor
One more month and
She’ll have begun
The next stage in
Her part in maintaining
The species no longer
Just career like her
More beautiful sister
She has chosen
Biological destiny

17§ [Orig 1/29/07]http://tmikey.com/gallery/

2568 La Danza de las Almas Cansades
[by S. David][art by Flavio Pellegrino]

So many
Lifetimes
They’ve danced
In this world
And I’ve met
Them before
Here and there
Across eternity
Every so often
These tired Souls
All or one or
Another of them
Entwine with mine
And seem to
Suck the
Energy and joy
Each time
I do not
Understand them
Flesh
They refuse
The joy
Of bodies
Free
They refuse
To fly
They refuse
To let their
Spirits
Bring their
Souls energy


31§ [Orig 7/11/04]http://www.flaviopellegrino.com/Gallery.htm

6426 Golden Apple
[by S. David] [art by Renee Lynch]

An apple of Eve
A golden apple
From that Tree
And in innocence
She bit it
One bite
And the revelation
Forced her
To the ground
She slept
The last sleep
Of innocence
Her body
Responding
To the changes
In her mind
To awaken with
Knowledge
Of Good and Evil
To awaken
As a woman

21§ [Orig 11/03/07]http://renelynch.com/home.html

8484 Mechanic
[by S. David] [art by Donato Giancola]

No she’s not
Rosie
The Riveter
She is a mechanic
Works damn hard
Null-g
Fixing
Engines
Tearing apart
Putting together
Again
She always
Wanted to
Spacewalk
Learned
From the best
Taught herself
More
She’s Class A
These days
Knows her trade
Has a job
Years now
And
Drinks with
The boys

26§ [Orig 8/18/10] http://www.donatoart.com/

7390 The Guardian
[by S. David] [art by Kris Kuksi]

2nd inspiration is
Milton, PL II 666-770

Before the nine
Gates they sat
Governing both
To and fro
Entrance
And exit
Sin
Satan’s daughter
Once so lovely
That Satan
Lucifer himself
In Heaven
Could not resist
And this his son
Grandson as well
Raping his own
Daughter to bring
Forth unknowing
Death
The end of all
Mortal flesh
Death
The son who
Immediately
Turned and in turn
Raped his mother
And she carried
This time
Demons and imps
And others of
That sort who
Tore at her womb
Until born
Sons half brothers
To Death
Such were the two
Each a guardian
Of the gates

38§ [Orig 10/13/08] http://kuksi.com/artworks/sculpture/

8566 The Ordinary
[by S. David][art by Donato Giancola]

But no
There’s magic
In that air
Yesterday
Was
Today
Is
Tomorrow
Will be
Think
Think
What was
Has the tinge
The tang
Of obsolete
Of quaint
Of museum
‘And we don’t
Do it that way’
‘So old school’
‘Does it even
Work’
But it was
The ordinary
Then
Not now
Probably
Not again
But what
Will
Remain
Can we conceive
Or will some
Science
Then
Be magic now

36§ [Orig 10/19/10] http://www.donatoart.com/

8783 Wish Fountain VI
[by S. David] [art by T Mikey]

Sacred symbol
Forming
An entrance
An exit
To where
Passing through
Such is life
A blink
Built on
Joy
Suffering
And the converting
Of reality
To symbols
And signs
Yes
Places life
Can hide
Behind


19§ [Orig 3/11/11]http://tmikey.com/wish/

8258 Pan Discomforting Psyche
[by S. David][art by Kris Kuksi]

Poor poor archetype
Seeking love
Seeking eternity
And Cupid’s arrow
Had struck
Amour
Amour
Constant
Inconstant
For he
So goodly
To look upon
Godly indeed
Desired
To taste her
To fill her
Indeed
And when
The deed was
Consummated
He
Why he
Would leave
For he was
Free
In truth
The very
Free-est
Of all
Beguiling
Seducing
All that was
Female
To ride his rod
Pan indeed
Discomforting
Psyche

37§ [Orig 3/25/10] http://kuksi.com/artworks/sculpture/

6141 Gaze: Lipstick
[by S. David][art by Renee Lynch]

Learning
And peer groups
Really
Show the way
The right ones
And you’re on
Your way
Life success
Maybe happiness
The wrong ones
She was
Thirteen
Lipstick
Jaded
Look and
Gaze
Cigarettes
Sex and
Drugs
A pretty picture
Yes
And you hope
She survives

23§ [Orig 7/22/07]http://renelynch.com/home.html

6849 Lady of the Lake
[by S. David][art by Clara Saprasa]

Milady in a dream
She once
Came to me
Out of a legend
Out of a now myth
And still
I dream
Try to remember
Exactly
But no
No more
Can I see clearly
My Lady
Of the Lake
Time passes
And I
Miss her …

17§ [Orig 3/02/08]http://clarasaprasa.com/

5715.2 Chicas de New York
[by S. David] [art by Flavio Pellegrino]

So you try
You don’t let
A chance go by
They’re there
You see them
Everywhere
And everywhere
You stay and wait
With x-ray eyes
They pass you by
Centuries years ago
It wasn’t so
They’d be the ones
Calling seeing if
You were free
But those girls
Are gone gone
To mothers and
Grandmothers and
Their daughters and
Granddaughters just
Pass you by

21§ [Orig 3/10/07]
22§ [Rev 6/10/11]http://www.flaviopellegrino.com/Gallery.htm

7016 Picnic on the Moon
[by S. David] [art by T. Mikey]

Bring her nice things
Promise her what you can
Promise her to try
The impossible
The day will come
When you can promise her
A picnic on the moon
If you both
Live that long

9§ [Orig 4/20/08]http://tmikey.com/gallery/

8754 Mystic
[by S. David] [art by Jenny Morgan]

Through a glass
Darkly
Foggy
Perhaps bloody
No perhaps
But
To penetrate
Into the Beyond
The Here
The Now
The mark
Of a mystic
There are paths
Yes more than
One that leads
To Beyond
However
You get there
Wait soon
I’ll be with you

20§ [Orig 2/13/11] http://jennymorganart.com/gallery.html