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refill

I’ve been lost
Inside my own head
Your lips movement
Are only echoes of sounds
Bouncing off of me
And hit someone else.
I feel lost in this place,
This world, I used to know.
And I have lost all ability
To love, and thus
Life has become meaningless
Emptiness
Nothingness.
Tortured by every breath I take,
The space between
Is filled with visions.
Visions they are all around me,
Holding a gun to my head,
Drowning in the Atlantic,
Praying for a car crash,
Or a nuclear bomb.
But the reality haunts me,
Like my past,
And like a hostage,
I am trapped in its embrace.
No escape.
So now, like the train
I, too am at a standstill.
Staring at the looking glass
Hoping for Alice to pull me
down the rabbit hole.
So I could feel alive.
Know I am, like a glass,
empty,
I am nothing but a hallow shell.
So can I please get a refill?

Jeremy Ashton- jeremywashton@gmail.com

RACISM
Whether white as light
Black,or still another,
Only painters have the right
To be,biased toward color.
By:Arthur Charles Ford,Sr.,poet
P.O. Box 4725
Pittsburgh,PA.15206-0725

Friends,
Let me know if you publish the above.
My info. follows:

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Dear Literary Artist,


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We published poems and prose pertaining to all subjects(love, holidays,etc.) and in any form(sonnets,haiku,rhyme,non-rhyme,free and blank verse). Simultaneous and pre-published submissions are accepted. Bio-sketches are optional. Presently, we are not paying monetarily, but if your works are selected, we’ll mail you a free copy of the issue in which they appear.

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Bio-Sketch of: Arthur Charles Ford,Sr.

 

Arthur C. Ford,Sr. was born and raised in New Orleans,LA.

He earned a Bachelor of Science Degree from Southern University in

New Orleans, where he also studied creative writing and was a member

of the Drama Society. He has visited 45 states in this country and

resided for two years in Bruxelles,Belgium(Europe).

 

His poetry(lyrics) and prose have been published in newsletters,

journals and magazines throughout America and Canada.

 

His book,”Reasons for Rhyming”(Volume 1), will be released in

the near future.

 

Mr. Ford currently resides in Pittsburgh,PA. where he continues to

write, edit and publish a quarterly newsletter entitled “THE POETRY

EXPLOSION NEWSLETTER”(“THE PEN”).

                        MUDDY WATERS

Rollickin', footstompin' goodtime,
Windy City electric blues.
Pinetop's juke joint piano rings for
cousin Johnny Cockeroo.
From the Mississippi Delta,
Take the Clarksdale train up north
to the South Side of Chicago
where them wailin' blues harps moan.
High priest and Hootchie Cootchie Man
gots that rich, black baritone
goin' way lowdown and dirty,
cause Muddy's a roooollin' stone.
Travlin' through the chitlin circuit
winnin' Battles of the Bands
against Howlin' Wolf, they scream
when Muddy shouts out,
"I'm a Man"!!
Always got his mojo workin',
even white boys heed the call.
Muddy's blues done had a baby
and they called it rock'n'roll.
Whoa, yeah!


Gary Loggins 5/15/09
email:gloggons@comcast.net

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"СимСтройСервис" известна на строительн м рынке с 2002 года как высокопрофессиональная и надежная строительная компа ия,
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                            Music Piercing the Soul

   A riff
from an old song
  makes it's way
into your heart
   Emotions you
had forgotten well
up inside you
    The tune conjures up
memories
     of friends,lovers
and wine intoxicated
evenings
The moon owverhead
is the same old moon
    but you're not
quite yourself
    Lost in nostalgic
reveries
    you move into
a waking dream
     ready to touch
the fire
    gingerly
  Erotocism and
memory
combine
  to form
  images in the
core of your being
    the tones bring you back
    to a time
when
life opened it's
door for you
Things have changed
    since then
but the riff
     opens up
your mind
  Music can
paint the past
and the future
Let melody be
   your guide
The world holds
  a place for you
     Let
the notes
  bring you ther,
where you should be
   At the junction of the past, present
and future

Matthew Anish
e-mail ppani@optonline.net