Happy Surrender
You’re face is slightly corpulent
But beautifully angelic in this city park
Of daylight wonder;
Insects hum and children play games
Beneath the affectionate sun
That caresses their tender youth.
I told you that you were the one
Who sings to my heart
Like the sparrows of dawn,
That lyrics of love beam
From your exotic eyes
Like heavenly lights
To guide my way.
Everyday, I’ve had to adjust
My life pursuits and expectations,
Reevaluate my imagination,
Create new philosophies and spiritual ideas,
But the perfect reality
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The Love That Makes Everything Right
Conversing in starlight
In a night of a thousand dreams,
We were laughing a midnight
Watching the headlights flicker by
Like drunken fireflies.
I'm so happy to see you,
I find such consolation
In the way you smile,
Your eyes are my home
Whenever I'm lonely.
When you were a young girl,
You played piano and sang
As sunlight shone through the window
Of your Saturday room
And settled on purple flowers.
Everyday I fall in love
Like when we were children
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Enfolding Tightly Your Sweet Pert Breasts
When you departed,
You thought I would be devastated,
But it was a great night singing poetry
To empty flower vases that remembered the reflection
Of your beautiful face as well as I remembered it.
Oh, to see again your black Italian hair
Dream-like wavy caressing your neck
And your black blouse enfolding tightly
Your sweet pert breasts that spoke to me
In exotically elegant, secret languages!
Every time I ever saw you,
I was Empire State Building high and about to cry,
Your goddess-like eyes hypnotized me
Like a gypsy campfire consuming mystic spells.
Even when you’re gone, it’s with you I dwell.
I am devastated but devastated by your presence
That ever lingers in a room like expensive French perfume.
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Embrace It
As you drive down the freeway
Trying to escape your memories or fate,
I hope you'll enter a journey of self-discovery.
The age of ancient adventures
Will not return;
There are no romantic wars
To help a young man conquer the world.
There is no path to a new reality,
There is no roadmap to love
That exists outside your soul and mind.
You can waste decades of your time
Trying to find what has never been lost,
You can lose sight of who you really are
Pursuing someone you should never be.
Wake up to the summer dawn of your existence
And appreciate the gift of the present moment:
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Prostitute On The Corner
Sad-hearted in the city
But I no longer drink whiskey in the afternoon;
I live through the heartbreak,
A sympathetic fool that smiles
On the rainy streets of predictable failure.
Ah, my dreams are as tattered
As my lonely clothes
Missing buttons and perceptible style
But I have a suitcase at the door
Packed with Mexico City Blues
And You Can’t Go Home Again
In case anyone should load me upon a train
In a season of departure.
I rarely cry but I’m always
On the verge of tears,
I’ve been releasing bird-like prayers
For her wellbeing down along these lonesome years
To fly to heaven on her behalf.
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Spiritual Ship of Everyone
Love is an illusion
Blossoming into reality
Once scribbled by sleepless poets
On loose paper or graffiti walls,
Writing as authentic
As the ancient Zen poet Han Shan
Who wrote on trees and stones.
Poems are like the mouth of God,
Once they’re spoken, they’re true
And usher in life and consequences.
Through the maze-like streets
Of amorous poems,
I’ve followed fragile girls home
To kiss small tears
That have lingered in their eyes
For numerous years
And discovered emotional truths
Too weighty for my arms.
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The Hour to Become a Lover
When I met the dark-haired girl
With the captivating Persian accent,
I wanted to see moonlight
Dancing upon her hair
Starlight settling in her eyes.
I was an ordinary man
Drifting through imagination in hyper drive,
I was becoming a dream
In the lovely sunburst of my mind.
I’ve spent my life in ordered monotony
Like a hapless bystander
Lost in the world of unobtainable love;
I have to switch off the motor of reluctance and fear
And sneak out of the passenger seat of complacency
More limiting and confining than an electric chair.
This is the hour to become a lover
In a new exotic land;
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Self-Resistance
In time,
Everyone loses his real self
And becomes society’s
Non-being and slave,
Dreams dispersed and annihilated.
To survive with soul intact
One has to learn self-resistance:
Resist bowing your head
To the will of the machine
And accepting living death,
Resist abandoning your feelings
For callousness,
Resist doing as you’ve been told
And laying your heart to rest,
Resist every superficial substitute for love
That makes you less than human
So that your own image in the mirror
You detest.
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Kiss Me Again Like Wet Dogs
I love you in the rain
Walking lonely along the boulevard
Gazing at all the passing cars;
The glimmer of neon signs
Flash like batting eyes from drugstores.
Neither of us were ever concerned with crime,
Our thoughts were bathed in the sublime
As we made our way down dirty streets,
Somehow a paradise for the lost;
Kiss me again like wet dogs
Straying without hope
Blindly into the night.
You know my addiction for extinction
And everyway I tried to die;
We dug Kierkegaard as well as the philosophy
Of non-judgment and non-injury;
And the poetry of romantic defeat
Was oozing from my pores like sweat
And I was glad you were next to me
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The Pirate Life
We may have to fight
With concealed guns
And razor-sharp knives
To make it from the east side
To our lost friends on the west side.
We have seen the blood-spattered pavement
Mournfully cradle the dead,
Eyes begin to slowly shut
Softly flashing last prayers
And farewell glances.
The pirate life in the gang-sectioned-off city,
Luna, with your tight jeans and sweet smile,
We made peace with the Hispanic kids,
They’ll let us slide for the next mile
Until we at least catch up with Joey the Freak.
Hold on tight the journey has just begun
And I can feel the breath of considerable threats,
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