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Three pieces for the new year...........................
'lotus' 1/4/2009

lotus
floats
aloof
free
alone
together
surreal
real
beauty
claimless
frameless
framed
lovely
silhouette
spacial
ethereal
otherness
otherless
botherless
bottomless
dances
skips

'I fall' timothy r gates, 1/3/2009

up
held in
suspense
loop-dee-loop
i spy with my
sea
gulls poop
everywhere
ocean's pigeons
'taste's like chicken!'
-what's chicken tast like?
I leap
over
inside, outside
beside
my,...
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'bipolar II vision' timothy r gates, 12/30/2008

four year old,
lived, wanted to die
decades later,
more so

spacial vision
hurricane's turmoil,
eye known
tornado's path,
eye leaps

Jackson Pollack,
streams of colours
appear as messes to the
normal
they claim,
'Any one could do that!'

Van Gogh's hues
Dali's lines
Mary Cassatt's confidence
Lee Krasner's brilliance hidden by her lover
Degas' door to Kadinsky...
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'Mommies, daddies' timothy r gates, 12/27/2008

Mommies, daddies
watch their
Krishna babies,
Jew babies,
Buddha babies,
Earth babies,
Jesus babies,
Mohamed babies,
Incomprehensible to any one else babies.
Lullaby,
'twinkle, twinkle little star,'
Prayer,
'if i should die before i wake'
Refrain,
'night, night, sleep tight
don't let the bed bugs bite!'
everyone says,
'Their babies are so cute,'
rarely with their follow up inferences...
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'i want' timothy r gates, 12/24/2008

red, white, blue
red and green
silken ribbons, tied
not blind,
your frame is braille, i pray
prey upon me, your altar
incense, pheromonal
amorous phenomenon, alleviate
lust is love
love is lust
'once was blind, but now I see!'
Eros' Agape leaps for joy
Icarus' free fall,
given wings without fail
those that moralize don't
get it
those...
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'I celebrate' or 'Antiquity's claims' timothy r gates, 12/24/2008

Antiquity's claims
'we were first!'
(dirge of solitary uniqueness)
genesis, protogenesis, progenitor
presumption's guilt
skeptic's accusation
I celebrate antiquity's presence,
known, only, primordial dancing
why not join in? Antiquity, novae Deus!
I clap my hands to you,
to we
to I Am
to us.
I celebrate!
Yeah!

St Nicolas,
December 6th
St Basil,
January 1st
Nativity,...
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'suicide's sibling' timothy r gates, 12/22/2008

forest run
youthful hike
angels, fairies, imps - seen
'my daddy's better than yours!'
'my mom's hugs chase away monsters!'
prayer, a conversation
sunshines anticipated, beheld
snow angels, licking icicles, jumping into snow drifts
'Santa's coming tonight!'
'Dreidel, dreydl, dreidel!'
'Love is all you need!'
'Hare Krishna! Hare Rama! Amitabha Buddha! My, my sweet Lord~!'
sitting between the house...
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'chair' timothy 12/20/2008

alone
in the corner
middle of the room
sidestepped
island
waiting
whisper to myself
'where's my pillow?'

'why we love nativity' timothy r gates, 12/20/2008

little ones,
Caesar's sacrifice
Oriental Star Poets,
read
Logos' writing beyond
Mars

suckling God,
Sophia's Isis
icon's widow open,
Gaia's
angels hymn with the
stars

Parthenogenesis' neologisms,
earth's prose
fairies run through her falling
leaves
no need...
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'snow'
'Snow' timothy r gates, 12/19/2008

Snow
white
no flight
tonight

flakes
blow
who'll know
tow

ice
translucent
not fluent
affluent

fairies
pirouette
god's minuet
et al et

snow
is
sparkling tis
fizz

'speak II' timothy r gates, 12/16/08

speak
whisper
blow a
kiss
touch
caress
extended fingers
connect
face stings
still
memory's dirge
memorial service
let 'the dead bury the dead'
hand,
same
beat
arouse
many years! cessation's ring!
memory eternal!
finger,
one
pressed against
another.
...'do you hear what i hear?'

'what makes eternal?' Memory Eternal! Bettie Page!
'what makes eternal? ** Timothy r gates, 12/12/2008

smiles

tears

belly laughing

love drunk gazes

she

he

we

anticipation, forlorn

repentance, emancipated

suspense, baptized

imagine, eliminated

what makes eternal?

grins unforgotten

replenish

rejoin

resurrection

respeculate

smiles

tears

belling laughing

-- i see that grin


**Certain people seem to be near ever-present in my mind's eye. I prefer, and...
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'Ever tear up?' timothy r gates, 12/5/2008*

Ever
tear up?
-thinking of
potential loss
gain
sprain
-repose of
father, mother
(there's no propitiousness
in this resolve, refrain)
-birth of
children
their love born
their grandchildren
-thinking of
no loss of innocence
guile's absence
(a mercy seat, here
prompts a grin)
-my own
mortality swallowed
immortality not mattering
suicide's failure, arrives,
full circle
-word's silence
heard...
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