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'Awakened' or 'Insomnia Resurrected' timothy r gates, 5/31/2009

Awakened
sleep gone
arms wrapped around my
frame,
gone.
exhausted
liberated
chained
unlocked passion's extended fingers,
prayer.
Hallucinations
elicitation
invocation
the sound of her slurp,
amnesias.
Awakened
insomnia resurrected

'four pieces/Poetry from a Niagara Falls collection' trg, 5/26/2009

'Buy American!' timothy r gates, 5/24/2009

protesters, sing-holders
(designer sandals, hemp t-shirts)
'Down with consumerism!'
'Down with facade Bookstores!'
(t-shirts stitched in Vietnam)
we protest the
Mega-stores,
But didn't we stop
shopping at the
Mom & Pop,
the first Inde-Stores?
neo-protest signs,
paper from Mexico
markers from Indonesia
'Buy American!'
Every one else does.

'those damn...
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'Days' timothy r gates, 5/18/2009

Days
come and
go
then
go and
come
then,
so do
I.

Note: Thank you to all my virtual, albeit many are as true as any face to face, friends. You
do make a difference, at least to me, daily. Thank you. ---timothy

'no metaphor when wrapped'

timothy r gates, 4/26/2009 inspired by Muddy Waters 'Champagne & Reefer' Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHowqKYSXNI

metaphoric and euphemisms,
for me,
these days

still
Champagne & Reefer
embraced by your lover
never lonely
even if there's no bong
the pressing of her
frame
better than
strawberry wine
or the gold from my youth,
no metaphor
when wrapped.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoGdx3I3dPE
Patty Smith' timothy r gates, 4/29/2009...
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'4 re the Royal Gorillas' timothy r gates, 4/21/2009 collection w/newest being last

Silver Back Royalty (trg, 6/21/03)

Sitting alone
on a mountain side,
now only a hill,
under equators
dew filled foliage,
banqueting
on mother earths
array of delights.
Once there were
mountains
everywhere you looked,
tall peaking up
though the clouds.
No one dared
to enter your domain.
Maybe baby Jesus
played with...
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'Paschal Lament' timothy r gates, 4/18/2009

Listening to
Bach, Handel
Garcia and Dylan
BB kicks in full swing,
Lucille never tiring of his
touch.

Brush to canvass
yellows, blues, charcoal
Van Gogh, Turner,
Carrington's study in hands Strachey
Irises never weary of blue
skies.

Darkness leans
listens, seeing
light's giving its shadow
'Behold what others call void'
present silence
gift of one tear.


'Paschal Lament,...
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'i come to the Garden alone' timothy r gates, 4/16/2009

i come to the Garden
alone
the dew, i pray, is resting
prey, is arresting
gods and goddesses
dance,
but, here, i ask to be
excluded
the Garden's
allure
a hiss,
desire's lust:
'My right!'
i prefer,
proffer in the coffer
no incessant need to
get back.
Alone,
with my imps, fairies, pixies
the ones...
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'fateful failure' & 'angels fall, again'

'fateful failure' timothy r gates, 4/09/2009

glad of that fateful
failure,
most days.
angels, devils
gods, goddesses
Jesus
watched that fateful
failure,
day's blink.
mad, happy
angry, dance
wind
blew that fateful
failure
face's chill.
awakening to that fateful
failure,
surprising unrepentant,
repose's success.

'angels fall, again' timothy r gates, 4/9/2009

innocents
rise
complacents
cry,
way, way, way
too...
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'Looks the other way' or 'E-o' timothy r gates, 3/20/2009

Looks the other
way
voyageur
devourer
G-d
Turns the other
cheek
complicit
accoutrement
D-g
Acquiesces the other
bullshitting
praying
preying
E-o.


'who's bullshitting' timothy r gates, 3/20/2009

who's bullshitting who
whom
to whom
i know that i
pray
prey
bullshit myself
sometimes curse with
infamously,
'there's no god!'
then laugh out loud at my own...
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