February 2012
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January 2012
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Ashita to ashita no tame no tanka (tanka for...
A fog-covered pond
Blinking for just a moment
Blessed swan alighted
Subtle motions of heaven
The slow rising sun breaks through
December 2011
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watashino jinsei ni ko wo egaku
shoshite watashi wa kumo kara kiita “Oute!” toiu koe wo
ima wa watashi no bandesu…
I drew a circle around my life
from the cloud I heard a voice say “Check!”
now it’s my turn
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A Summer Storm
I said, “Young man this is your mountain top.” Weather rough, it stills and stops the heart. To breathe and face our new fears, “let’s climb.” One foot up and then the next; the climb starts, goal in mind, eyes set on the peak above, I know you’re young and not my son to guide But up we climb against the tide of time The threat of a thunderous sky surrounds, the branches break with similar...
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The Impenetrable Light (A Holy Dove)
Released from your freedom you enter me
Corporeal prison, life of the spirit
See the madness of love in the shallows
Frenzied fish gasping for breath and for bread
To become a part of what their Master says
The madness of love still in the shallows
Protect the decay, it breaks and it fades.
Corruption is always nearest the heart
The beauty of God so deep in...
November 2011
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The Sky Reflected Summer (unfinished)
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If I had the strength to prove my love is true
To protect you from the one who shares his greedy value
The one who said “Baby, my love is you.”
He will go and come back like echoes across the valley
never staying,
to put out his hand,
to reach for the stars in heaven above him
(Like a lost man who writes his thoughts on a porch)
The one who ran away and loved you more.
Can...
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To study the Anthropologist Pt. 1
I felt like a miner tearing into the soft soil but hidden under the break away surface was granite. Hard stone and crude tools, I readied my hands with a pick and smile. Swinging hard and fast, hoping to excavate the secrets of an expressionless landscape, my body jolting as the earth blocks my desire. “Surely, she keeps wonderful secrets from me”.
October 2011
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Today I had to write a sonnet for class...
To pluck the vine and smash the sweet produce,
The warmth of the sun shines upon my habit.
Like a madman, I sip the nectar reduced.
Defrocked nature, heaven’s honey, I grab it,
Smash it, blend it, until no dregs remain.
Discarded skins under the press of my sole.
The sweet residual pulp of my veins
Soaking the spaces of memory holes.
Shiraz, Chianti, valleys of Merlot,
All bred to...
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On Going Home
rising mountains
The haunting moon out of the of my youth;
Golden in the low of night as I approach the foothills of San Bernardino.
I travel quickly.
The helium-balloon
valley lone half-emptied,
...
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Untitled.
You withered the fruitless tree
“Discordia!” The vinedresser sings
An untimely harvest, sweet patience my plea
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My soil-bed unkempt, You can see
Roots buried deep in loose soil I cling
You the withered the fruitless tree
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With death in this moment from sin I am free
Yet this drying, pulling, uprooting does sting
An untimely harvest, sweet patience my plea
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Command me...
September 2011
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The common progression
A sea of gyration
Hands outstretched
Heart outstretched
The world is expanding
With love and understanding
Hands moving; vibrant
Alive, swaying violent
Knees bowed down to worship
Lifting the veil like a loose slip
Kneeling, praying, surrender
Arms aloft in spiritual splendor
Sweet ecstatic loss of self-distinction
One in the crowd, on the brink of extinction
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I don’t believe in love but I believe in the end of my days I have seen the leaves fall turned to brown from… http://t.co/GgmF2yDG
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I don’t believe in love but I believe in the end of my days
I have seen the leaves fall turned to brown from green
Suture me to the fallen stars of heaven, sleep
I will dream of your beauty
And all will be sweet in this dream of a maiden from the east
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Prayers
East
The death of the martyr, stigmata.
A whisper, a phrase. Ja mata.
The whites of the eyes. Heaven aims, ready.
Fire from the sky upward gaze steady
Nuclear futures burn brighter, shiro
The children left their silhouette, kuro
Cradle
Like diamonds in darkness; blood in my car
Cultural empire Allah Akbar
The lives of the saints, disaster and grace
Anxious eyes condemn behind a veiled...
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Shelter
Ignoring the; “Obviously, I can’t think.”
She says, “you should try and remember me.”
But I am a liar and you are my grace
With one steady hand she caresses my face
Feeling her fingertips over my stubble
I haven’t shaved since 5a.m.
Living in my car again
Looking like a discouraged friend
Yet the light in my eyes radiates and shines
A lantern under a basket
A lamp in the closet
The...
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04SEP2011 19:30
Clear-cut memories of yesterday
All the laughter and my regrets
Coupled together like newlyweds
We are intimate, elaborate, and deliberate
Diction and poise dancing on the parapet
Love is the strong wind pushing me over
Fear like a tether pulling me in
As I dance around and around and spin
Coiling, coiling, around and around I spin
Binding and unbound I dance and I live
On the parapet built by my...
Audio: Gift | Will Carroll Demo track from my new EP http://t.co/9SMNIfR
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August 2011
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Caracara
The hour has passed;
My hand is clasped.
A trinket made of gold,
Fingers pushing into my palm.
The pain is a signal.
I won’t let go.
Not for all the burning waters of Mexico.
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“That bird looks hungry.”
“Excuse me?” Samuel followed the bird’s stare to the man sitting next to him.
“I said that bird looks hungry. I thought birds flew south in the winter.”
The bird’s wings flapped open as the creature readied for flight and in a flashing vision tore out the stranger’s eyes before ascending to the heavens.
“They don’t” Samuel mumbled and began to speak, “What brings you...
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A place to show how much you care →
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Five minutes ago
And the dream faded like a memory… like me… “Goodnight and God bless”, was said to a country that didn’t believe in good nights or God’s blessings anymore. Washed over like a tomb of doubt, the colors of God’s angels proclaimed, “Peace!” as a river of death flowed ceaselessly from our hearts. I couldn’t imagine anything, other than a sad song that sounded like my own...
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July 2011
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What I See Before Going to Sleep
Hold your breath and count the stars,
The twinkling and fading of distant memories.
You built a wall around my heart
And walked freely in a castle I could not see
Should one star fall from the multitude of heaven
Caught by the shining of your eyes,
Burning brighter than a supernova
Forfeiting glory to be by your side
Would you lift my soul with tender hands
And bathe my tongue with...
4. To My Dreams
For the most part, you’re really weird. I guess that’s why I always look forward to remembering you. You teach me so much while keeping everything hidden. Working on solutions like a hundred unsolved riddles. It would make me really happy if we could go flying again soon.
June 2011
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Today was really productive. I almost feel like I accomplished something!
December 2010
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Christmas is for making Merry
He was buried as soon as he began breathing.
“You deny this is your true affect?”
A serpent laughs distantly as humanity ponders humanity.
“You know I can create anything?!”
Men claim disillusionment while constructing elaborate fantasies.
A Son approaches in the midst of high holy day revelry,
His life said “love me, I will reciprocate eternally.”
Then...
November 2010
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I’ve knit a blanket of distractions to cover me as I sleep and in the most peaceful way, with ten second nightmares, I’m suffocating.
3. To My Family
I’ve been wondering how I should write this letter. My family is made up of some vastly different people which makes sense because my mom was married 3 times and therefore we were all raised in different households. So to my family, I’d like to say, I really feel like you’re not family at all. I mean you’re all really nice. I love you a lot but I don’t even know what...
“For whereas, so far as nature is concerned, experience supplies the rules and is...”
– Immanuel Kant
October 2010
7 posts
What's In Candy Corn?
fakescience:
True Story
I met an elderly man reciting creeds and catechisms. He called them confessions of faith and I believed him. After a pause he confessed his sin as some vague disappointment. I asked him, “Sir, but who would you have been?” He replied, “If only I had lead, to God, other men.”
2. To my Crush
I want to make something concrete but I can’t fathom how to make you stop when you drift right by me. Did you know you drift right by me? When you arrived my place was sitting to the side but I managed to stare across at your cross stare. No sideways glances or second chances with you and so I chose every word out of the passion of my mind to finally express the things I always hide. I am...
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Engraved Upon Gold In A Silver Envelope
I’m going to fight
Semblance forget
Rejection accept
Tomorrow Repent!
Oh, tomorrow repent from these failures
Today Regret but tomorrow repent
This life half spent
Unless my crystal lens is deception
Again, this fortune telling moment
Cries out to me
Repent, dead works
false prophets, repent
All I desire is mockery and death
Repent to live
This day is, today, it is mine
And...
When the world has passed away I remember a devotion of Spirit that speaks gently. These desolate cities, the love that is missing, the triumph and beauty. What they meant to you they always meant to me. The spirit is alive in me trying to escape mortal destiny by revealing every dream conceived possibility. The greenest field and the buzzing bee.
A sunlit sky as new day dawns. I scratch at...
“You must try to forget all you have learned, you must begin to dream. From this...”
– Wing Biddlebaum
September 2010
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broken social scene →
August 2010
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The Wilderness Downtown →
nerdology:
Arcade Fire just reinvented the music video. Do yourself a favor and use the real address where you grew up when it asks. This is what kind of interactive music experience that the internet was built for. I’m excited to see more innovative stuff coming from Arcade Fire and their new album, The Suburbs (which is amazing by the way).
[via cockenblog]
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