Seeking The News

Why do I seek the news?
To find out about the war on terror?
To find out about the latest weather?
To hear about the shooting on campus?
To see what the stock market hands us?
Why do I seek the news?
To see the latest car chase?
To find out what's the latest craze?
To know how many are killed?
To show me plenty of thrills?
Why do I seek the news?
To find out about the score?
To say I'm well informed?
To catch the lottery numbers?
To make me feel numb or dumber?
Why do I seek the news?

Finding a Rhyme

It blows my mind 
to find a rhyme
in time with a line
sometimes divine
My purpose is a circus 
and is your
murkiest messenger
But it cures the stir 
and is as sure as
your recession 
where a dollar is a holler
and a doubt is a shout 
to the story 
without the glory 
and is about to get out 
Rhymes with chimes as these tall
tales climb to peak over the surface
and over the brink so my purpose is 
as though I can grow and think 
and the moral to the story is history blinks
When it comes to the war
we mysteriously link
Our every whim and desire to do better
Than what we see in the fire forever
A piece of burning needing yearning
For a peace 
returning if indeed 
we are learning
To increase 
and show what we know 
from the heart
Prose are for those 
who are poetry smart
And my rhymes 
are like lines 
in my mind 
of madness 
wondering 
if I can find 
gladness
In all of the sad 
gone bad 
in our lives
while finding 
a rhyme 
is how our 
happiness 
survives

Falling Back on

Too many songs and not enough dancers
To sing along with love as the answer
As the melody sweeps
The people off their feet
Making the shuffle to the street
A mere muffled speech
To put fear away as the people play
The lonely song into the night
Moving slow into the light
Moving more to slight the plight
And become bold to the old
As the young becomes sold to the
Eternity of words making the sound
Certainly heard with a pure
Cure of insecurities
As we scurry within hopes
And the fury of worry
Always falling back into the dreams
We follow as we lack the tangible
things we have to fall back on

Love Never Ends

She let out a sigh
Explaining her pain
To him as she cried
As they relaxed in the wind
To deny the ways of the world
For being weak is becoming strong
While we speak in loving words
Like the shade in the sun
As the rays of gentle days
Always find time to caress
Our ways as we play 
Holding each other
Reminding us of love
Never to end and depends
On enough of the love to get 
Us by in these days
Of the butterfly
To say 
We all die in our own time
When we live in between
Makes all the difference
Sometimes

Worth The Earth

All the while
Whales with smiles
The dolphins sing
On waves and miles
Of folding ocean blue
Into holding true to 
You know who
At the bottom of the deep 
Where the whales will meet
To be with Neptune of the seas
And the land wondering
If man will ever understand
Life is like the knife 
Cutting through the waves to save
From the fight for everlasting
Ways casting shells abroad
The earth worth the while
Applauding your desire
On fire with the smiles
On the land for the King
And the man at the bottom of the 
Ocean who demands a wave 
Of emotion understanding we can
With devotion plan to hand the earth
And ocean a way for today and a peace
To be solemnly called and for all 
To be pleased

Lonely Dancers

We have to believe in something more
Than what we are fighting for
As we indulge in none other
Than discovering war only suffers
The story of gore
Not glory and fame
And nothing for 
The goal attained
When world is one
And earth unites
All the guns without a fight
For borders or orders
To kill the man
With a weapon in hand
When we can 
Lay down
And play 
The sound
Delaying the battling hounds
For the right to authorize war
As we philosophize more 
A way to expose a day 
To rise above our foes
As a way to say
Love is the only answer
For enough lonely dancers
Starting to play from the heart
Starting to say who we are
As we are part of the wave
To start the ways to save

The Turning

We can be a cat on the couch fast asleep
Or observe the world as we weep

Or we can transform the norm and change 
The calling from industrial illusion

To a new world involving the living planet 
As we understand it exists 

On a level of developing bliss 
To conserve the limited resources 

And reverse the intimidating forces
That watch the world stay rolling 

Avoiding the stage controlling 
The ideals of illogical repression 

From the ideas of ecological aggression 
In the turning we are yearning to survive 

In giving every organism alive 
A chance to enhance every moment 

In the dance to romancing
Worthwhile enjoyment