Showing posts with label serenity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label serenity. Show all posts

Friday, August 13, 2021

2.3389 : 8/13/14 : Serene (Endless Axis 122/500)

Become serene again
this setback
does not mean an end
And for the ones
I couldn't assist
What is refused
I can't insist
not everything
works out okay?
Even if you write
a smile for every day
though each tomorrow's
sight unseen
must meet the night
emptied, serene

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Saturday, June 05, 2021

2.3320 : 6/5/14 : Exercise (Endless Axis 53/500)

The exercise
of possibility
just to try things on for size
just for a look to see
it gets a little rough at times
feel the burn and and strain
but it's good to exercise
it's good to train
work out my capacity
to see things the right way
no shortage of upsides
Whatever I might say
So I will walk out upright
with my chin high
merely for the exercise
the effortless serenity

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Saturday, November 26, 2016

2.1668 : 11/26/09 : Show

I took this show on the road
my head was fixed on the gauge
Points racked just for showing up
Points rack up natural as age
Nobody's watching no
Look nobody cares
You've got to screw up worse than that
then everybody stares
modest and quiet success
nobody gives a hoot
you got to get on the road
you got to aim and shoot
but I'm so satisfied
yeah I'm so bland, serene
I am a thousand times
bigger than any scene
You want to show me something
you better look here first
here's all heavy truth on you
Answer all calls with thirst

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Wednesday, February 25, 2015

2.1390 : 2/21/09 : Anticipating

Anticipating the time crunch to come
only a week left to add up the sum
sure it will be another cluster freak
And who knows when the static’s going to peak
Everyone’s getting tense and jittery
Bitching and sweating the economy
Not so serene about what we can’t change
watch the corpse turn to something rich and strange
I’d almost rather see it all fall down
I said that once a source of my renown
I was a kid I want to take it back
If you’ve the chance please tell that to the pack
oh we’re all boiling with anticipation
they’re ringing warning bells on every station
Nobody knows how deep this hole might sink
Or what might change completely in one blink

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Sunday, March 09, 2014

2.1040 : 3/8/08 : Identity (Seventyseven: 45 of 81)

So amazingly perfect
You’ll think I’m flawed
the seeming vacuum
of this vast space I’ve gnawed
line by line and song by song
so crooked it’s straight
One it gets infinitely long
watch me skillfully screw up
and fumble my lines
till I shiver a sweat up
but freeze ‘cause there’s landmines
pray for the normal
peace and serenity
A way to overcome
this strange bent identity

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Tuesday, February 18, 2014

2.1021 : 2/18/08 : I’m Light (Seventyseven: 26 of 81)

3,212 : 4 ?



I’m so heavy I’m light
I’m so serene I rock the mic all night
Therefore the sage, traveling all day
I don’t look out the window not a thing to say
No matter the signs or roadside attractions
I stay home avoid distractions
You think I’m going to tip you all the heat I got?
You think I’m going to let you unseat my spot
I’m restful and thus my own master
For all your restlessness you won’t get there a minute faster

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Monday, April 01, 2013

2.698 : 4/1/07 : Accustomed to Desire

I am accustomed to uncertainty
and impotence is known to me
and I have labored over ages
to attain serenity
I have writ ten thousand pages
I have earned a servant’s wages
but I do not have a slave’s heart
and my freeman’s blood still rages
I pull the thread from craft to art
insist I’m ready now to start
become accustomed to desire
before these chains pull me apart
and cast me to the watchman’s fire
that waits for me beyond the wire
inevitable undying pyre
sole thing to which I can aspire

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