2.3165 : 1/01/14 : The Thorn

The thorn sought to derail me

from day one

I said you'll have no piece

for I have just begun

and pain can't

tear through beauty's veil

doesn't make it easy

doesn't rosy up the pale

But it brings me back

to all there ever is

and you'll agree

a bit of clever biz

I push the thorn

all the way through

and through the hole

the light shines right to you

what

2.31634: 12/31/13 : Before the Party

Before the party

in the quiet of the night

vow to make something nice

to bathe in the light

tonight tonight tonight

I'll commit my soul

and swear to scorn every regret

and smile through every toll

I hearby pledge

my life to beauty

regardless of the price

necessity exacts

Oh prince of dark designs

I do hereby refute thee

and declare this book henceforth

to be my Book of Acts

what

2.3163 : 12/30/13 : Wrong

Feels like all you can trust is

your every impulse is wrong

the wrong time to get creative

the wrong time to sing a song

the wrong time to dig your heels in

and pick a fight

you're a true freak of nature

at never being right

and there's no rest

no destination no promised land

and what you've got to go on

fits inside one hand

Why can't I just swallow it

always make nice

Why after giving up

every natural vice

do I still wind up blinking

in the single hours of night

awestruck at my capacity

of never being right

and there's no rest

no destination no promised land

and what you've got to go on

fits in one hand

what

2.3162 : 12/29/13 : Sweep

A sweep is possible

I have to believe it all

what words cannot contain

What's shaken

and what does remain

For those who can't

be satisfied

the moral code

unratified

not unfinished

not uncorrected

unstarted, wholly

undirected

Who could then

wield the broom

these clumsy hands

could sweep in doom

and so wait cursed

by little hope

the mess remains

and we just cope

what

2.3161 : 12/28/13 : Possess the Heart

Does wealth possess

The heart of this world

it was the question

and the thought that whirled

And if I got some

being lucky or oh so smart

Would it possess would it possess

my heart?

I thought I thought

I thought of gold

forever bought

forever sold

possesses many hearts

Who have none at all

and that's it's cruelest trick;

our steepest fall

what

2.3160 : 12/27/13 : Impossible

There's no sense crying

over impossible dreams

but we do, but we do, but we do

It's terrible to think

nothing's ever what it seems

but it's true, but it's true, yes it's true

And I'm forever saying

everything will be all right

it's a lie, it's a lie, it's a lie

that gets spit back at me

through the teeth of the night

pass it by, pass it by, just a sigh

When we say nothing is impossible

all it means is we won't give up

no one ever did the impossible

the definition of the half full cup

I pine and fret for

my impossible dream

I'm a fool, I'm a fool, I'm a fool

If I could see right in front of me

I wouldn't try to step out of the stream

You're so cool, you're so cool, you're so cool

When we say nothing is impossible

what

2.3159 : 12/26/13 : And Joy

And joy could be

our dividend

our principle

of capital

the joyful might

conclude the old

thing had no true

value at all

perspective just

might be the cure

for craving power;

glittering heaps

pure moments of

the true pristine

might launch our ships

by bounds and leaps

and rather than

a sword king bent

on darkness to

destroy

the tale that launches

my ship may

just be a

parable of joy

what

2.3158 : 12/25/13 : Hark

What with

living in the city

I've gotten

oh so sophisticated

don't my voice

sound pretty

and my words

finely articulated

but in the night

I dream of a world gone dark

and awake I think

his world could use a little hark

Wake up

this thing is still a fight

and good is far

from winning

If you believe

in light

it's not the final inning

everywhere is a stand

and a choice stark

and the word I heard

was hark

what

2.3157 : 12/24/13 : Peace On Earth

So you figured out how to wage

a world war

What the locks

on the smallest things of all

were for

So try not to fall down

and roll with mirth

When I declare my objective

is peace on earth

Oh I'm very small

I've no influence

Oh I'm not famous

I'm scarcely of consequence

but this pearl in my hand

you'll be surprised by its worth

and this night I start the bargaining

for Peace on Earth

what

2.3156 : 12/23/13 : Content

Should I become

a content man

fill the buckets

drive the plan

the ship's corrupt

but so's it all

someone's got

to have the content ball

could I persuade

a million clods

one versus 7 thousand

how you like them odds

with only content

mightier than swords

or so they said

armed with their words

what

2.3155 : 12/22/13 : Filler

Too much filler

and thus comes the night

pitch black

freezing

brain's in a sort of twilight

all I want's a miracle

a suitcase of cash

all I want's a

whirlwind

to blow away the trash

and leave every single

thing precious to me intact

give me those little things

and then I'll act

what

2.3154 : 12/21/13 : Pearls

The irritants get buried in

the flesh of more experience

the gloss accretes around the points

acceptance maybe mere avoidance

pull back the fog of time

will some bright beauty shine there

maybe for the chosen ones

the rest may best not mine there

My minds eye whirls I think of pearls

and maybe I refuse to dive

the depths the tender moments' spurs

those times when I was all alive

what

2.3153 : 12/20/13 : Hat Trick

Hat trick

watch me

not caring

not trying

not daring

not really true

but it'll do for a lark

It's just my life's

Such a walk in the park

what

2.3152 : 12/19/13 : Eradicate

Eradicate self-reference

hey I see what I did there

hell I haven't felt this weak

since I let that bitch cut my hair

retreat from inner dialog

pull down the steady state

we'll see what's left to talk about

after all I eradicate

the hemming and the hawing

Of I know not what I know not where

I'll root out every trace of it

come watch the show: you'll gawp and stare

and most of all eradicate

the last shred of self doubt

this tower of reproach

my stand: and this swine culture's rout

(Tower of Reproach: 1)

what

2.3151 : 12/18/13 : Done to Me

Between what I do to myself

and what's done to me

Well lately not a lot

Seems like fun to me

If that's a weak complaint

well here's one more true

I got a hell of a lot worse

but I won't bore you

what

2.3150 : 12/17/13 : Beginning and Not Beginning to Begin

Don't call it wasted

since I wouldn't sell it

at any price

I should have tasted

more by now

I should have been there twice

and there were many mornings

beginning, and not

beginning to begin

and there were clear signs

and knocking, tapping

Let me in

I won't pronounce

upon a day

non one hour old

but I'll announce

for all my turnings

Your indifference is cold

what

2.3149 : 12/16/13 : False

So many

false starts

but were they

Did we figure out

who called it

are we sure they

Stopped the clock

or was it

started

as I sit here

broken hearted

maybe if I'd

started at

seventeen

but didn't I

didn't I just though

maybe if I'd

ever quit

anything clean

well there was that

one time

if you must know

what

2.3148 : 12/15/13 : Speaking

Struck by how I should treat

whereof I would not speak

Stuck on how I could see

what has truly come to my hands

I should sing of young love

heroism's lofty peak

God and love of the homelands

But I'm stuck on the top

Where my thoughts are seeking

and the moment's fierce now

blows all words to the wind

where my thoughts write words large

but they're scarcely worth speaking

and the shuddering void

knocked rang clattered and dinned

what

2.3147 : 12/14/13 : White Flag

Is that a battle cry

or a white flag

we're all mixed up

by the white stag

sure fairytales sure

superstition

but the longing persists

and dreams of sweet fruition

what

2.3146 : 12/13/13 : Reinvention (II)

While I study reinvention

I am hating everything

surely a failure state

missing on every swing

is it just the dogs at the door

is it this inner curse

have to confess that part

has never been much worse

this slumps like years before

another set of books

a litany of askance

old ways that set their hooks

what would I have the future

hold instead of that rut

won't pierce it in a day

a year will make the cut

what