musing kennbivins

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My fingers have become more articulate
At the idea that you they may touch
My nostrils flair and filter out random flavorings
For your scent and zephyr is near
My tongue had suffered that which was insipid
While the advent of you was pending
Colors I have not known for many seasons
And your foliage, they startle me into an awakened state
I [...]

The baby’s out with the bath water
The recorder’s set to resume
All is fair in love and war
While the loving ends too soon
Misery loves company
While euphoria sleeps alone
Love is in air they say
But gravity brings that love home
I fall to pieces
And those pieces bring me peace
For it is the mars that have made me
Lately I’m not [...]

Tentacles and tantalizing thoughts of dread and doom
Tension mounts as Insomnia simply stalks into my room
Tethered to the bedpost, dare I peer over the edge?
If I close my eyes and talk loud will that make the monsters dead?
“Don’t make me come in there. Rest your overactive imagination.
There are no monsters under the bed looking gross [...]

In the beginning we know not words but the noise of he that sins
The induction of destruction and obstruction of good tends
Do snowballs have a chance in hell and what does it all portend?
Am I left gasping and convulsing or will I get that second wind?
I’m not in Kansas anymore, Toto or maybe Corporate will [...]

What is this prickly, cold to the touch
That rejects my beloved and protesteth too much?
The all that I am or was or would be
Is cast out with ashes by the buoy out to sea
Is it me that is crackling and barren to seed?
Or is it her that is starving, refusing to feed?
Reckless abandon towards horizons [...]

Water from rocks and manna-soaked socks
And quail in my locks, still a 40-year clock
I wait at the dock yet my ship never stocks.
39 more years I’ll hang on this block
“This one bring you luck!”
But luck is a crock
And I’m staring at walls that tick and then tock
And then a dismissive obsessive regressive tock
Walking alone while [...]

Four walls and an echo
Down a long and distant hall
Four intents and no passenger
And a self-constructed wall
Three beats and then waiting
For the time to pronounce my vow
Three strikes and then debating
Should I forfeit the game right now?
Two seats yet filled to capacity
Did she save a seat for me?
Two ballads have made me restless
And their cadence [...]

One hundred and eighty pointless distractions
Leading to inaction
Twelves times less their passion
Is Kenn home? Who’s asking?
One hundred and eighty reprimands
And a serious tongue lashing
Return to your first love, return to your passion
Those other misleads and concubines
Will exhaust your stored up rations
Hurry now, scurry now, better get to dashing
Though your Dad will never leave you
Even when [...]

(Nadine is the personification of hope)
This is not some love poem or a soliloquy of a dream
This is not a confession of an angry black man or how its difficult to be a human being
This is not a suicide note left with hesitant intentions of being seen
And this is not an adolescent cry with regret [...]

Thinking of you sleeping right before you wake up
Has me so warm to steeping that I’m about to break up
The visual of you wrapped in sheets not wearing any makeup
Has me so terse that if I burst then I could fill a lake up
There must be some hobby or craft I can maybe take up
In [...]

This passenger-side driving
Alludes that I’m not so in control
The floorboards won’t slow my descent
And the dashboard won’t steer my fold
While my sanity is bleeding
And injustice is on the walk
I try hard not to feel
I try hard not to talk
This passenger-side driving
Has me impatient to make my mark
But it’s all about the journey I hear
Not where [...]

I wanna hold your hand
I wanna be your man
I wanna be the sand that runs through your toes
Ending up in unsuspecting places of the crannies and folds of your clothes.
A chair is not a chair
A weave is not her hair
A burning house is not a flare when there’s no one standing close
To witness who was [...]

Your insincere sincerities
Are so much akin to cake
Whereas the eating of and having it
Conveys your deeds as fake
Your insincere sincerities
Are as a window cooling pie
While an ugly truth is better
Than the most beautiful of lies
Your insincere sincerities
Bring sincerities to shame
Cut and paste some random sentiment
And fill in the blank some random interest’s name.
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My flag is at half mast
I ripped my garment for thee
My ashen face is downcast
And several doves have been released
Sixty seconds to respect
Much less seconds to be born
And a lifetime to reflect
On life for which to mourn
The bells, they toll for thee
And the rain allays the ground
The earth invites you back
From whence you first were [...]