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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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'Jerusalem' timothy r gates, 12/03/2008

city
beaten down by one
on a hill,
still alive
-dead,
wailing

city
of
for
Jews, Christians, Muslims
incongruent continuity
Oriental Star Gazers came
to see
a
Jew-baby, Christian-Word, Muslim-Prophet
in a

city
where
beatitudes-blessed words were said
on a hill
side,
"love your enemy,"
the
Jew, Christian, Muslim
the
Star Gazers from the East
living in a

city
risen...
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'happy darkness' & 'L -- word'

'L - word' timothy r gates, 11/29/2008

l word
separated by
loss
two l words
Eros applauds
Agape claps
Philia smiles
f word
only makes sense
with both
l words
dancing,
Fred and Ginger
glide -
fall on my
a word
l word
picks me up
loss
robs
Agape's caress
Eros weeps
till another
l knows.

'happy darkness' timothy...
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...two pieces.......

'thank you worth saying' timothy r gates, 11/27/28

Turkey
nearly U.S. National bird
Buzzard too
Eagles soar
imagine plucking
an Eagle for holiday feasts
'thank you,' worth saying
whether eating
being eaten
or for the freedom
to bitch regarding
omnivorism gluttonous behaviorism.
Thank you.

'Smiles' timothy r gates, 11/26/2008

smiles
fly
too when
two
don't
sigh
apart
in art
in prose
in verse...
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'Some days I feel every step' timothy r gates, 11/26/2008

Granddaddy,
Irish-German immigrant parents
died,
six year old, orphaned.
Grandmother,
Irish-German immigrant father
Cherokee mother,
raised by her Mammy
in Kentucky.
American, uniquely so
wed twelve years past
Annie's repose, 'she shot as well as any man,'
Grandpa would say.
Grandma stepped in
raised her cousin's, eighteen years her elderess,
four children.
her own, four,...
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'Ever?' timothy r gates, 11/21/2008

Ever fall into
love
or into the dumpster
climbing out,
not so easy
and the mess,
shit smells better?

Ever pray
or prey
dial-o-deal
with God
with neighbor,
odor's like manure
a little rain, sunshine?

Ever rise above
resurrection
aim for the stars
shooting one wished upon
believe the mythos
hear the logos
sit in your own?

Yeah, me neither.