9187 Rip and Render

[by S. David]  [art by Beau Stanton]

Failure
Do it
Again he pictured
The pattern
So perfectly
In his mind
A perfect
Celebration
With mystical
Meanings and
Properties too
He had drawn
It so precisely
Meant it to be
An act of
Homage
And yet and yet
Something wrong
Something missing
Four times before
Weeks of labor
Each just
Lacking something
He ripped it up
Like the others
Said a brief
Prayer and
Incantation
Started over
Again
To render
The patterned
Portal for
Certain minds
To enter
To leave
Behind
This reality

               38§  [Orig   4/08/12]http://www.beaustanton.com

8481 Clouds Breaking  [unt 32]
 [by S. David]  [art by Zaria Forman]
Storm passed
Clouds breaking
Watching the play
Of light escaping
To reflect from
The water
That’s why
You came down
To the shore
Nature seems
Larger here
Some secret
May be
Revealed
With the clouds
Parting
Something more
Of nature
Unveiled
But still
You don’t
Understand
But you do
Feel

 24§  [Orig   8/17/10]       http://www.zariaforman.com/  

9166 Labyrinth of Consciousness
[by S. David] [art by Beau Stanton]

Everything so neat
So patterned
You’re in a rut
A world of
Repetition
Comfortable
So you thought
So you think
Ease down
Meditate
Life
Circle game
But wait
Mind tricks
Mind games
Your thoughts
Turn about
Turn again
Again
The path
You follow
Turns again
Choices choices
Life becomes
A maze
A labyrinth
Look at it
As from above
So many turnings
Dead ends but
There is a boundary
And your thinking
Leads to dead ends
End dead
And you die
And you will
Molder all that is
Left is bone

38§ [Orig 3/23/12] http://www.beaustanton.com/

4895 Songs of an Old Forest: Melody 6 1 [by S. David][art by Vladimir Vasilyev]

Does anyone still sing
Their songs once
Hundreds roamed
The woodlands
Once herds roamed
The lands of the Don
Once theirs was
A melody of the Old
Forest but man
Man does not allow
Man does not reproduce
In season but at all times
And it was men
Who cut down the Forest
Took the land from
The trees the Old Forest
Is almost gone disappeared
The Old Gods were not
Strong enough
Smart enough
They turned
They fled
After today
Who will sing
The song carry
The melody
Of the Old Forest


27§ [Orig 7/22/06]http://www.vladartist.com/

7830 Day Chasing Night
[by S. David][art by Hans Bernd Zimmermann]

You don’t understand
You just don’t
You have to have
A rational
Explanation
For everything
Everything must
Be dissected
Explicated
So what
If your answers
Are true
Mine are too
I choose
To individualize
To personalize
To give each
A name
An image
A mystique
So true
Witness
Day
Chasing night

24§ [Orig 7/06/09] contact info to be added

7995.1 Omen for the Millennium
[by S. David][art by Hans Bernd Zimmermann]

Never noticing
Odin’s owl
Athena’s owl
Coming to roost
Rather still
Pondering
Meditating
Choices
Choices
That will
Set the pattern
Learning
Nothing
From
The wisdom
Of the ages
Starting as
An almost young
Child naked
To the world
Omens
Coming from
Ignoring from
In-turning
Blindness
To the few
Strengths
Offered by
The past
Woe for
The future

Epigraph:
“Mankind’s future on earth will be
decided by the choices we make
between ignorance and wisdom”

31§ [Orig 10/09/09] contact info to added

8851 In the Fairy Tale District
[by S. David][art by Jennifer Delilah]

Take a trip
Yeah a trip
A Jefferson Airplane
Great Society
Timothy Leary trip
Away from
The city into
The Fairy Tale
District
Get there
Listen to
The fantasies
Of pre pubes
Look to
The white unicorns
Know they disappear
When the times
Change
When the rites
Of passage
Are passed
Are past
It happens
No more petting them
Memories
Linger though
Now they
Become
Fantasies
Images
In the mind with
Innocence
Left behind

33§ [Orig 6/10/11]http://jenniferdelilah.com/home.html

4379 Songs of an Old Forest: Melody 1 2
[by S. David][art by Vladimir Vasilyev]

It was only
The propaganda
The false histories
Of the battle winners
That call us and
You believe us
Barbarians
And now the last
Old temple is found
And now you see
The brilliance
The artistry by
Which we worshipped
Our Gods and now
You see the Reality
The Holy Stone
The Holy Ellipsoid
The Sacred Egg
Which opens other
Realities to which
We fled from our
Foes We Are Not Dead

22§ [Orig 1/15/06]http://www.vladartist.com/

8850 The Leprechaun from Brooklyn
[by S. David][art by Jennifer Delilah]

If you want to
If you are derived
So you can recognize
So you search
Yeah they made
The journey for sure
The great Potato
Famine for some
They left too
There was
More room here
More room to
Disappear
But one
He had ties
Strong ones
And there were
Enough
Enough
To do right by him
So he stayed
Even as
The population
Boomed
He stayed
Here alone
And did not
Play with pots
No rainbows
Leaves town
Once in a while
Still he comes back
But when he goes
He’s known as
The leprechaun
From Brooklyn

36§ [Orig 6/10/11]http://jenniferdelilah.com/home.html

8436 Two
[by S. David][art by Sorina Iuganu]

Finding
Meeting
Learning
Each other
Two people
Two personas
Seeking
To become
Real
To become
One
But two
Searching
Each other’s
Eyes
For
Epiphany

17§ [Orig 7/24/10] http://buncut.ning.com/profile/SorinaIuganu?xg_source=profiles_friendList

8428 Kiss Me and You’ll Know How Important I Am
[by S. David][art by Piet van den Boog]

The sex
A pretext
She wanted
She wanted
As he
Just as he
Both wanted
Both ecstasy
And immortality
For the clay
Upon her
Nude body
Fate and
Defiance
Destiny and
Transcendence

16§[Orig 7/19/10]http://www.vandenboog.com/vandenboog.com/VanDenBoog_Atelier.html

8410 Bohemian
[by S. David][art by Daniel Victor]

But life
Is a puzzle
Meant to be
Examined
Closely and
Lived fully
So
Over
Absinthe
Coffee
I ponder
I debate
Thinking
Away and
A different way
Than others
And the noise
Of their preachings
The commonplace
Of their living
Is not for me
Is not for me
I shall let
The world hear
I shall set
The world afire
With my
Thoughts
Words
Life
Different yes
Different

32§ [Orig 7/13/10] http://danielvictor.net/index2.htm

7703 Pissed Off Cub Scout
[by S. David] [art by Joe Heaps Nelson]

Cute little bugger
Momma’s pride
And joy even
When he’s pissed
He still throws
Temper tantrums
At nine but his
Folks and there
Are two are trying
To civilize him
Put him in
The cub scouts
To teach him how
To work and play
With others learn
Values and new
Skills teamwork
Yet he has his
Moments and
This is one but
He is cute eh
And he no longer
Tortures his
Baby brother

24§ [Orig 4/20/09] http://www.joeheaps.com/

8917 Echiquier
[by S. David][art by Fitnat Katircioglu]

What are the rules
How do you play
This game and
This game is it
Just a game when
The situation
Changes so fast
So musically
So fluidly watch
You see more
Reflections of
Reality so very
Bizarre but so
Is reality and
Anyway who is
Playing and
Are there stakes
We know nothing
About anyway there
Are sneak attacks
Moves no one
Can contemplate
But is it just
A game then
So what life
Is also that way
What are the stakes
What are the rules
Whose turn is it
Anyway

30§ [Orig 8/20/11] http://artistepeintrefitnat.jimdo.com/

9037 Trojan Defense
[by S. David][art by Michael Cheval]

Formidable
Ah and noble
For a certainty
His pursuit
Must succeed
His gamesmanship
Incomparable
And he had
Begun the chase
By ensuring she
Knew the rules
Of the game
Though she was
Sweetly coy
Temptingly he
Offered her
A sacrifice you’d
Call it a knight
She knew it
As a horse he
Set it as
A Trojan Horse
The prize for
Success would be
The key she left
Nonchalantly
Dangling
To her suite her heart
The belt she wore
To preserve her
Chastity
Perhaps all three
For was he not
Too a prize
To be gained
In exchange

36§ [Orig 12/23/11]http://chevalfineart.com/

9007 War
[by S. David][art by Drew Tal]

There are ghosts
Here
Ghosts and visions
The past
The past
Weighs heavy
And the weight
Is never
To be released
For if there are
Differences
There will be
War and
Suffering and
Death and
True believers
Fanatics and
Professionals
Will seek
Conquest
To what end
There is no end
There are reasons
Then is no reason
There are only
Excuses for
War
Silly stupid
Plays on words
Those who offend
Must defend
Against an offense
And it is in
Truth always
An offense

35§ [Orig 11/25/11]http://www.drewtal.com/

9015 Aggression
[by S. David] [art by Tarak Mahadi]

Burn
Rape
Destroy
Ah the good
Old days
When
Young bucks went
To vandalize
Their neighbors
Another clan
Tribe nation
Prove you are
A man
Rape the bear
Wrestle the woman
Damn fools
No no no
Formalize the brutality
After all
We’re civilized
Riot loot and
Oh yes fire still
But we’re civilized
Code duelo
Foils pistols
No no no
Competitions
Athletics
But still
What about
Those without
Muscles in
Their heads
Serious chess
War games
Today to
Empathize with
The violence
Feels good

39§ [Orig 12/02/11]
http://www.brooklynartproject.com/profile/Tarakmahadi?xg_source=activity

9014 Fade into You
[by S. David][art by Nyahzul]

Fragments
Bits pieces
Of memories
Oh heart
Oh love
Disappearing
Time does
Soften edges
Pain
Ecstasy
An ache
A glow
And yesterdays
Fade into you
And you
Fade into
Memories
Are you
Happy

19§ [Orig 11/29/11]http://nyahzulart.com/home.html

9050 Light my Way I
[by S. David][art by Nagualero]

Staring
Comfortably
Sitting
Storing the
Thoughts
Going where
Thoughts will
Scattered across
The night and
Some stray that
Had lost its way
Caught irked
Had the night
Reach deep and
Watched it rise
From within
“What use
What worth
What end
This comfort
Nothing
Nothing done
Has meaning
Beyond
The moment
Oh for a spark
For a light
To lead me
On a path
That has value
And lasts”
His mind raced
Tossing this
That thought
Aside perverse
Then a light
A flame in
The sky and
Some God
Laughed
Held on high
A match

42§ [Orig 12/30/11]https://www.facebook.com/nagualero OR
http://www.nagualero.com/nagualero/ABOUT_THE_ARTIST.html

8618 Ying Yang
[by S. David][art by Nata Ibragimov]

Dichotomies
Dichotomies
Lead to
Taxonomies
Make
The pieces
The parts
Easier
To see
Finding
Differences
Labeling
Separating
Thee and me
Boundaries
Yet
Yet
Recognition
A little bit me
In you
A little bit you
In me
But
Remember
Don’t forget
Just parts
Parts of
A whole
You and I
Become us
Become we

31§ [Orig 11/27/10] http://www.nataillustration.com/

8879 New Beginning
[by S. David][art by Nadia Wolinska]

Spirits
Avatars
The Gods of
The past
All observed
All helpless
Science
Art
Faith
All helpless
There was
There is
None
No explanation
Reality
Will not hold
Surreality
Cannot
Contain
Time no
Longer forced
Into
Linearity
A point
The point
New
Beginning

27§ [Orig 7/17/11]http://www.universallogos.com/

8872 Spaghetti to your Onion
[by S. David]

Can you hear
Can you hear
There are two parts
To this conversation
And it’s lame if we
Keep repeating the same
Thing over and again
Not a circle nor even
A spiral think rather
You are an onion and
I am a hard-nosed piece
Of spaghetti that gets
Lost and returns again
Again cutting through
Even traveling along
A layer’s edges I’m
Trying I’m trying to
Explain but it’s not
Always the same looking
Looking starting in the same
Place you’re my ground but
Which part of you I sometimes
Go a wandering but there’s so
Much in your world in mine I
Don’t always have a chance to
Revisit you is it a curse
A blessing do you want me
To always come back you’ve
Changed sometimes in my
Eyes sometimes your call
Starts you’re so strong in
In the same place but sometimes
Sometimes I’ve changed even
When hearing your call again
But this isn’t even all hello
Again new sauce eh

34§ [Orig 7/15/11]

8841 Alice and Others
[by S. David] [art by Karla Capralli]

Finally relaxed
It did take a while
And now she’s
So at ease
It looks like
She’s replaced
The queen and
Simply now is
Holding court
But it isn’t
Her party no
No rather she
Just dropped in
After following
Some cupcakes
As they were
Flying by and
There he was
Dapper and mad
The hatter and
But
Where was
His vest she
Had seen him
Wearing a vest
When it all
Started that strange
White rabbit
Ah but tea
And cupcakes
It was enough
She did feel
At ease

33§ [Orig 5/23/11] http://caprali.com/photos/

8922 Fallen Unicorn
[by S. David] [art by Beth Carter]

It’s just no good
No more
Wrong
Wrong world
Wrong time
Harder and
Harder to find
Another
But
Can’t leave
Stuck
Had to
Stay behind
The rest
They left
Once
Once upon a time
Ah nobility
Song and praise
And of course
Petted
Loved
No more
No more
Little girls
To adore
Him so
Side stepped
Into
The last dimension
Open to him
Pan’s there
A few others
Pan’s running
An inn
Keeps for him
A trough
Of applejack

38§ [Orig 8/29/11] http://www.bethcarter.co.uk/