HisDay OfBirth

I took a beam

Bent toward your heart

And kept it there

For the times we part

Father, Husband,

Uncle, Brother and Son

All with silent wings

The patient love has begun

37 Celebrations

Of love and life with time

Have now made him

Forever Ever Wise

 

 

2003 © CLPridemore for James Louis Pridemore

 

Shun

He got on the train
At the end of the ride

Then got off
It was too far to walk

So he watched the doors close

And said his goodbye

Chasing Rabits

I know I must let you go

But you feel so good

Don't know if I could

Ever live without you

You will hurt me, I know

Better do it quick

Better do it now

Before this pain sears my

Barely beating heart

And sends me into the ground

Crying for death

Keep me, O keep me,

Near in your thoughts

Love me, O love me

Here in this hell

You wanted me

I needed you

I let the fire touch my body

Now it burns in my soul

Will I ever reach heaven?

From these depths of despair?

Will I ever see blue sky?

Or again breathe fresh air?

I believed in the dream,

it was mine to disown.

Putting my grace on you

And your lust in me

I chose to go down that rabbit hole

Now Alice, she wants to go home.

UnTied

Don't expect to see light
Only glowing outlines
Of what's not there

Meaning yet undefined
Reason has not died 
It's only the glow
Left behind

The wake, for Pete's sake
Is never a lonely ache
One is never alone
When true glory is shown

 
The fine mist of breath
Curls to the edge
Of a world very few
Have ever known

Back Flash

When you're Blue
I can't see you
When you're Red
I'm out of your head
When you're far,
I want you near
But you don't
Want to be right here

I see your sign, that
One small look
Which shows me
That you're in the place
Of days ago

It's no mystery that
You left your destiny
In those sands of time, which
No one knows

Come back to me now
And I'll show you how
To live a second in hours
And find your true power

So you can live your life
like you see it in your mind

EmPaths

Why can't this be real?
I don't doubt what I feel
But you doubt you
I know you do

I don't care about me
You do
You don't care about you
I do
That's who we are now

And it's okay
Because

There's only this
A moment of bliss
There's no other day
But today

There's only this
This moment of bliss
There's no other day
But today

We watch each others color

Knowing no other

Can see it the 

Way we do

We're lost but not alone
We don't have a home
But you in me
And me in you

And it's okay

Because

There's only this
A moment of bliss
There's no other day
But today

IntraCosmology

I do in the dew

what others cannot see

That place of windless Aire

existing in every tree

This is not physical

but a relation of mind

to live in the system

with no worry of time

bound in the will

choices i have made

give me the option

to lie in the shade

pick a leaf or a shave of the bark

I see the same story;

That trees can hold

Larks.

C. L. Pridemore © 2008

OBE

Woke up hot and not with you

I'm outta time

I guess we're through

Threw myself away

To get a good look

At you

Don't want the

Card you're writing

It don't seem inviting

Feels like you'll throw

It all away anyway

I wish you would

You are too damned good

My heart can't

Take this pain

You're pulling me out

And up, then

Back to the ground again

 

 

Outta Mind

Too deja for words

That's what I heard

Then I wrote all this down

With a pen

Gimme a Brahms or a

13th Baktun

The timing is music

And it plays in my head

The pain I bare

With the strength of a bear

Is something I'll have

'Til I'm dead

Laughing Bird

Of winged migration 

Those birds fly high

I keep them aloft

With powers of mind

Today I touched the earth

And reached the ground

I spent the Red and marveled

At the Violet I found

Met the mind of 

A man in kind

Sparked my senses

And woke my mind

Reminded me to laugh

My ass off here
and there

To stay true to ME

No matter who cares