2.3468 : 10/31/14 : Thankful (Endless Axis 201/500)

Be thankful for this

be thankful for that

but for the below belt

hit you slipped

into a tipped and cocked hat

but I don't say anything

I'm all bows and smiles

thank you for all unknowing

and a thousand dark miles

what

2.3467 : 10/30/14 : Inevitable Ring (Endless Axis 200/500)

Numbered seven

for sure treasured thing

blush at the cliché

the inevitable ring

strangely it seems

inactive, inert

curiously behaves

as if its dull as dirt

well except at times

it swirls as if reflecting clouds

and a cloth drawn through it

spun silk from shrouds

and the people who all owned it

ended dead or mad

and yet everyone who sees it

tends to want it bad

and no one knows what it's made of

and it changes size

and when I slipped it on

I swear I felt a thousand eyes

what

2.3466 : 10/29/14 : Conic (Endless Axis 199/500)

Scaling an ascent

up a pentatonic

treasure six

is brass and conic

large bore small bore

meet in the middle

the interface is

a transcendence fiddle

polished flat

rubberized tip

Devilish invention

for the trip city trip

we suspect it's

truly one of a kind

referenced as a siphon

or snorkel for the mind

what

2.3465 : 10/28/14 : A Lost Date (Endless Axis 198/500)

Realized I really

had a lost date

in my mind

nothing remarkable

just a side

turning quickly left behind

think of it

a moment

it's dim,

doesn't shine a bit

better to

bear in mind

I'm so much better

shut of it

what

2.3464 : 10/27/14 : The Break (Endless Axis 197/500)

I'm going to

boil it to the break

but I don't let it

boil over

Spot the moment

and I get it

this break

could have made

a god almighty mess

but I'm just

so adept

got a fine touch I guess

and now it

it's all going to

flow like buttered silk

and go down

so easy

like a cold glass of milk

When I set the thing

and pitch it

to ferment

I bet I'm bound

to forget where

all the hard time went

what

2.3463 : 10/26/14 : Horse (Endless Axis 196/500)

Bring to my hand

this day's doing

for the sake of

this king's horse

I'm shoeing

this bloodless battle

for the soul of a nation

or a nation of soul

or a permanent vacation

As to why the ones who

Could stop working don't

As to why those who could

will my comeback won't

I don't need none of that

just a horse to ride

the work to my hand

and this day most glorified

what

2.3462 : 10/25/14 : When All Else Fails (Endless Axis 195/500)

Deep doubting change

well what then

the more things change

sure the old saying

If belief is not

enough and I'm sure it's not

If the attitude and

work is really all we've got

and if it all might

as well be on rails

remind me what I do

when all else fails

change is constant

but is anyone driving

is there more than

tropism in all our striving

set doubt aside

we all got our patch

and time eventually

gets game set and match

but I'm taking

this one home tonight

It won't last

nothing does

and I guess that's all right

what

2.3461 : 10/24/14 : Awful Glad (Endless Axis 194/500)

Draw up the light again

If none mind me

but the mad

Another beautiful day

happened anyway

and I felt

awful glad

I heard out all the

doomsday claptrap

the pressure cooker

the bleeding flu

I'm not giving up

no I'm not going anywhere

I'm sticking to

you girl like glue

what

2.3460 : 10/23/14 : Roll (Endless Axis 193/500)

Seems to roll

to never stop

grows on its own

I reap each crop

waiting for

the feedback build

Surely this time

my crew

my guild

Wrong partisan

the one unwanted

This seems to roll

but ever stunted

what

2.3459 : 10/22/14 : (If 4,460 Trees Fall in the) Forest (Endless Axis 192/500)

The toil of eleven years

far into the twelfth

the forest appears

Sometimes seeming

as a treasure isle

sometimes a brooding

and festering pile

I'm so far in the trees

I can't even see it

However much I said

I would bring it, and be it

And things I put off

till the hammer was whirring

the thick and long-

neglected pot I keep stirring

Is it pleasing? are you

not entertained

Will you curse and shake

your fist for being detained

dare I dream

one day you might stand up

maybe a million

and raising a hand up

what

2.3458 : 10/21/14 : Utter Silence (Endless Axis 191/500)

However will you

write a tune for

this one

At some point

did you utter silence

missed one

got out

and got in your ear

You can't resist

Pretty soon

everybody's

got to hear

I make 'em way too short

Oh William Martin

But I get to

dream for free

no matter what

there's more thing

that'll never happen to me

all the more

to get on

with what I'm starting

what

2.3457 : 10/20/14 : Feedback (Endless Axis 190/500)

Noise drowning

the positivity

resolution

many

possibilities

no sense of

imminent solution

gotta

get up anyway

gotta hit it

hammer and tongs

fast and easy like

a thousand days

easy

like another thousand songs

what

2.3456 : 10/19/14 : Bad Skeptic (Endless Axis 189/500)

Had be been a

bad skeptic

listened to emotion

heard the spirit

as it hovered

over the chaos ocean

His story

an inkblot

everybody

bring their baggage

ignoring how

it's all talk talk

ignoring

it's all cabbage

what

2.3455 : 10/18/14 : Bellows (Endless Axis 188/500)

Reminiscent of a bellows

none can say why

plain silver tube

one notch there by

the tapered end

no other feature or mark

the great fifth treasure

the whistle

of boatswain Clark

great ships it called up

pipe drone agents around

but these days

blow or pull

it emits not a sound

but it's said at the right spot

in just the right hour

When the frequency calls

the lost note

will speak power

what

2.3454 : 10/17/14 : Pouring (Endless Axis 187/500)

Forgive my

buzz phrases

but oh this new normal

every specter

it raises

can only step back

can only breathe deep

can only count my blessings

and try

to get some sleep

what

2.3453 : 10/16/14 : Pouring (Endless Axis 186/500)

Raining

so it's pouring

pretending

my spirit's soaring

pretending

I'm really wroth

really I'd like

to end you all

like Yog-Sothoth

No strength

to spin that

yet the axis holds

I guess I'm in this

till the whole plane

folds

never doubted

guess that's

my silver strand

now give me

a fucking break

now dial me up

a band

what

2.3452 : 10/15/14 : Easy (Endless Axis 185/500)

Be so easy on yourself

is your magic fortune

for today

I heard you

got hit hard a little

I transmitted

a lot of easy

without delay

Some will laugh

laugh with them

Some will push

you don't have to

resist them

we fade so easy

always reappear

I'll be back baby

I'll always be here

what

2.3451 : 10/14/14 : Word Salad (Endless Axis 184/500)

Probably not a poem

certainly

not a ballad

not epic

not sacred

just a plate

of word salad

praying for

relief

release

and one sweet

flare to drop

pray for hooks

like sickly sweet

bottled French

screwtop

what

2.3450 : 10/13/14 : Lethe Sphere (Endless Axis 183/500)

Black mirror

sphere

before my eyes

and letting

me reject

augury

laugh off this

fog you see

and smile to forgetting

Fourth treasure

oh sphere so kind

press it to my temple

and read/write

this mind

what

2.3449 : 10/12/14 : Purgat Pond (Endless Axis 182/500)

In for another

correction

in he purgat pond

Guess you like to

bring me closer

Really guild that bond

I guess it could

be worse

it really really could

Guess though too

I would't say

that I would call this good

what

2.3448 : 10/11/14 : Moratorium (Endless Axis 181/500)

Declare Moratorium

three day cease fire

to prepare

to go under

to recover you inquire

do I think something will

come different

the other side

nobody knows

my guess would be

it'll be the start

of a long ride

what

2.3447 : 10/10/14 : Wait and See (Endless Axis 180/500)

Reduce

subtract

to the

Smallest light

the minimal

joy

one second

delight

What can we

make of a

moment

Wait and see

next one's

for you oh

aristocracy

what

2.3446 : 10/09/14 : Hand of Faith (Endless Axis 179/500)

My own hand of faith

buried below

I still remember the

first time I saw snow

Where is my

treasure laid up

at this point?

and will I

wreck it at the joint

there were other words

they were forgotten

the ears of faith

stuffed with wax and cotton

but on the bright side

this skeptic hand still scribes

And I'm still one step out

in front of

the running tribes

what

2.3445 : 10/08/14 : Weight (Endless Axis 178/500)

Have at the weight again

rather rail against

the ordinary span

or one's position

on the line

better than years

chasing the anodyne

or lucky tokens

or augury

Well one is not

such an old dog you see

Has got more tricks left

than Fillmore Slim

and the weight

has yet to press the life

from him

what

2.3444 : 10/07/14 : Pierce (Endless Axis 177/500)

Pierce this vile

reservoir

the final time

I put a thousand

words

on that dime

Where acquiescence

stops

the unshakable cops

and if you'll

be my partner

maybe we can

beat the odds

defy fate

defeat hate

and mix it with

these lesser gods

what

2.3443 : 10/06/14 : Returns (Endless Axis 176/500)

The moment

that returns

the interest

it earns

I put my head

to rest

no impulse

no test

what

2.3442 : 10/05/14 : Left Alone (Endless Axis 175/500)

To not have been

left alone

despite everything

for which I must atone

To have been sent

such a grace

will explain well enough

the smile upon my face

what

2.3442 : 10/04/14 : Trilemma (3) (Endless Axis 174/500)

What would not break

What could not bend

watch this trick

that plain: transcend

I wouldn't call

myself a God

but upon Mt. Olympus

well I get a nod

You'll end up thinking

that you made me up

You just kept drinking

but I drained the cup

What did you expect

a pillar of fire

hold up a minute

and I'll lay it all out

for you to admire

what

2.3440 : 10/03/14 : Trilemma (2) (Endless Axis 173/500)

To call it that

would be insulting

to crazy people

here's the church

baby yeah

here's the steeple

here's the narthex

and here's the nave

back up

I'm going to try to behave

I like a triptych

heaven and hell

and here I'm in the middle

mad ringing this bell

if it sounds

a little bent

blame this column I'm leaning

blame the usual book

and this

damn quest for meaning

what

2.3439 : 10/02/14 : Trilemma (1) (Endless Axis 172/500)

I've been a liar

up to now

up to now

I've cut some

corners

I'll allow

but if you

think that's all

there is to me

I'm going to

laugh at your face

When you see

the moment that

came seven

years ago today

You can believe me

when I say

what

2.3438 : 10/01/14 : Glass (Endless Axis 171/500)

Heaven knows

what I was thinking

hell if I know myself

And not much

inspiration here

have to pull

another bottle from the shelf

And you could go

around around

Sing that cycle

live dull

but just

I heard about this

fountain and

my glass is but

half full

what