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'ebony's hieroglyphics' timothy r gates, 10/01/2009

black and white
pages with words,
once read
not read
from blood
shed,
bled,
not said
colour, hued
hoary headed innocence
waltzes with
toe-headed maturity
iconoclasts admit to
iconodule two-steps.
pages,
ebony's hieroglyphics
allow for what's
read,
not read
to be said.


'it's about me!' or 'it's not about me!' timothy r gates, 10/01/2009

what I
feel
want
need...
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'reflecting, i do ponder' timothy r gates, 9/27/2009

Trees,
leaves beginning to fall,
others in transition
hues from greens to
crumbling browns and grays.

Squirrels,
scurrying where they used
to evade Brittany
blessed reposed dog,
see them through the sky lights.

Pool,
needing closed, pain in the ass,
waiting, then, to
reopen at the end of spring
duck and pigeon crap cleaning first yeah.

Equinox...
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'From ooze to mire's migration' timothy r gates, 9/24/2009

From ooze to mire's
migration
I am who that I am that I am,
as with the
I AM.

Adam couldn't deal with
Lilith,
Eve not less of a challenge
mother of all life's spring

Angel's fall
Angel's sprawl
born to German, Irish immigrants,
one married a Cherokee,
she was mentored by a Mammy

Mother, Father...
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tatian:
just noticed the testimonial you left me, how sweet of you to say that.

xxoo

thanks for sharing the poetry... i liiike it.
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welcome to Fall timothy r gates, 9/23/2009

Anesti, alathos!
Spring has given us
resurrection
Her repose is near,
Fall hums,
whistles, swirling leaves
dried limbs, ponds recline
Springs pollen,
replaced with
Falls earths dust
Summers prance
teasing us with
fairies silhouettes,
pirouettes, skipping aimlessly
till now,
Fall.
Makarios, koimesis!
Falls Equinox
smiles,
Winters hues, soon,
but first I must complete my
painting.


*Anesti, alathos! In...
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'those lingering aromas' timothy r gates, 9/19/2009

coming across an old book,
from Grandpa
old people's smell, still

finding the dugout, forgotten,
immediate residual high
glass bowl, same thing, lost
.004 bud behind copper screen
time-space continuum b.s.

h.s. 'P'hoto
first love
my heart, feel it, still

memory banks, love making
euphemisms, literalisms, synergism
rush out the door, pulled me back in
her amorous remains...
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two pieces.........

Afghanistan some thoughts timothy r gates, 9/16/2009 **

Afghanistan,
good war?
Iraq,
bad war?
Vietnam,
good, then
bad war?
WWII,
come lately,
but still called
a
good war?
war, good or bad,
to our good or ill,
still robs all
of potential prolonged
innocence
fuels
nationalism, racism,
hatred for what is
called
The Enemy.
long ago
an end to The War
to end...
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'tears fall' timothy r gates, 9/14/2009

tears fall
flow
fill that Psalmist's bottle
too full, needing more
bottomless tombs.
we join in,
baptizing
what we do not know
with what we hope we know,
knowing
no lone tear
hits
a dry earth.

my favorite things timothy r gates, 9/16/2009**



some,

but not merely,

things,

to borrow a phrase,

my favorite things,

i pause, finding myself...
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9/11/2009? timothy r gates, 9/09/2009

krie, elison
i do, still, remember
aionia Mneme
MLK
JFK
Kent State
Selma to Montgomery
vichnaya pamyat
I still, do, remember
NATOs collateral damage
Smart Bombs,
birthed by my parents
The Bomb
hypomimnēskō we do remember
omnivorous, our species,
one of another
maybe one more bomb
will stop them all?
never to forget! Holocaust!
Dammit!
we have forgotten,
leaving memorials...
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9/11/2009? timothy r gates, 9/09/2009

krie, elison
i do, still, remember
aionia Mneme
MLK
JFK
Kent State
Selma to Montgomery
vichnaya pamyat
I still, do, remember
NATOs collateral damage
Smart Bombs,
birthed by my parents
The Bomb
hypomimnēskō we do remember
omnivorous, our species,
one of another
maybe one more bomb
will stop them all?
never to forget! Holocaust!
Dammit!
we have forgotten,
leaving memorials...
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For Issa/Jane Siberry Haiku timothy r gates 9/03/2009

blessings without hues
dirges finding their tune's muse
brush strokes find repose

(i'm stoked, i'm receiving a new CD via this artist for this. just cool for me, that's all. www.myspace.com/issalight )

'other flower' timothy r gates, 9/02/2009

a rose
is a rose,
of course
it's a flower,
too
thorns,
too
foliage, sometimes,
too
when they crawl,...
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