Poetry | THOUGHTS OF A POET IN THE RAIN

Category: Poetry
- TOMORROW TODAY
  
  Posted at 8:30 am by Gordon, on October 27, 2018
  Tomorrow came late today
  It wasn’t supposed to be
  But the day had come to set her free
  And there she was, and all was out of the way
  Tomorrow came late today
  And there was no place left for her to go
  Street lights turned on and began to glow
  As her love packed up and set about to flow
  Down the river and through the town
  To the open air where she would find the wide-open sea
  Where she would finally find herself set out and freed
  And tomorrow came late today
  When they found they had nothing left to say
  She untied her boat and set herself on her way
  Those who stood and saw her go
  Only could wave as she turned to the sea
  She was on the tide and found herself set free
  With a wave, a kiss, and she was gone with the flow
  Tomorrow came early today.
  
  Copyright Gordon Kuhn 2018 all rights reserved 10/27/18
  
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- A MEMORY OF YOU
  
  Posted at 7:14 pm by Gordon, on October 26, 2018
  Here I stand in the light of an early Indian summer sun
  Look through my eyes where it’s just peaking up over distant hills
  While you and I stand searching for lions, tigers, sharks, and dragons
  Of my imagination where we as children used to run
  When you and I were just 8 years old and were addicted to having fun
  Running barefoot with stubbed toes across lawns and dirt roads
  When life itself was easy and at the end of the day
  It always ended on pillows where our curly haired sleepy heads would lay
  No one ever warned of changes or the future foretold
  Where we met so long ago before fantasy windmills and rainswept windowsills
  Blocked the view and destroyed the fun
  When we didn’t own a car
  But from where we stood we needn’t and didn’t go far
  There was no need to feed the adventure
  For it was just you and me
  And we were completely free
  With love enough in our hearts for any 8-year-old to share
  When life passed around us without any care
  Without any conjecture and life left no scar
  Lions, tigers, sharks, and dragons did not mar
  The landscape that we ourselves made
  In our memories, as we were running unafraid
  But now the game has changed
  And I look now, searching through the mists of memory for you
  Back in the years when all was said to be true
  And wonder where the time went, and life was rearranged
  Then life changed, and I stand alone now with just a memory of you
  
  Copyright 2018 Gordon Kuhn, all rights reserved 10/26/18
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- BACKWASH
  
  Posted at 8:11 pm by Gordon, on September 9, 2018
  BACKWASH
  Walking backwards in my mind slowly thru time
  I find myself stranded, just another body standing in line
  A pathetic piece of flesh and bone
  Left alive to review all the scrapings my handmade in stone
  Until the carving knife broke from all the writing
  And I found that my life was not so exciting
  As I had envisioned it
  But drinking made it seem to fit
  The surrounding air and places I had the train boarded
  Without thought of where the trip was going or how sorted
  It would be
  But I would soon see
  The bridge left broken and bloody near that meadow in years past
  Where death took a friend and then came the revenge that failed to last
  In my heart, that day as the vomit filled my mouth with backwash
  And life about me began to sway and I felt the sting of a lash
  
  Copyright 2018 Gordon Kuhn: written 9.9.18 first draft
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- Yesterday’s Child
  
  Posted at 1:26 pm by Gordon, on June 21, 2018
  The following poem will be in Standoff. The book, Standoff is a group of poems and short stories
  
  Yesterday’s Child
  
  Yesterday’s child was born with a patchwork brain
  Filled with paintings that would never be brought to view
  For a painter, a drawer, he simply could not be
  Overrun with songs that would never be sung
  For they melted or collapsed before being born
  Adrift with poetry that would struggle to be heard
  But some broke through to live a day
  Yesterday’s child was born to others to view
  While about him his life slowly colored with stain
  His sense of security and being loved flung
  To the woods where sense lived in the leaves
  That surrounded and filed the world with color
  
  Copyright 2018 Gordon Kuhn
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- Rehearsing
  
  Posted at 3:03 am by Gordon, on May 8, 2018
  Rehearsing
  
  Another morning has come to greet the sun
  Chasing the night away as coffee brews on the stove
  A cup with spoon to swirl the cream in to blend the clouds away
  As I sit and think of questions that I cannot even form
  I wonder about the woman down the street who lives alone
  In a home being foreclosed on even as the year has come full circle
  Her son is college stuff and flunking out as he goes to class
  Neighborhood children run barefoot laughing as they pass
  At my comment of concern for nails and rocks and wiggly worms while
  The Church of the Holy Hypodermic will ring its chimes
  At dawn, lunch, and dinner time, a mile away as I listen and decide
  That the ringing bells are as lonely in their song
  As is the old man in the darkened corner house
  Alone, staring at a wall, waiting in silence for his time to die. 2/18/2015
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- In the Dark
  
  Posted at 3:32 pm by Gordon, on May 7, 2018
  In the Dark Copyright 2018 Gordon Kuhn, all rights reserved
  
  Like a dog in heat he was single minded in his searching
  While he roamed the empty spaces nearby ocean waves that crashed upon the shore
  The sea fog coated the land and hid him from the safety nearby
  Weakly hunting a place to lay his pain racked head
  The cheap wine had gotten to his mind and left him stunned and all for dead
  Lying in the dark on a rotted floor of an old shack he found by the ocean’s side
  Before he fell into a cruel and empty sleep
  Enlightenment curled up around him like a coating of smoke
  From a fire burning deep within his soul
  While others unseen around him in shadows kept hidden
  They also slept the deep and troubled sleep, in open air, hiding from the sun
  In a cave of despair they all slept where no one can see within memories thin veil.
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- A new follower: Somna Kapoor
  
  Posted at 10:00 pm by Gordon, on September 2, 2017
  https://somnakapoor.wordpress.com/2017/08/17/phases-in-life-of-an-introvert/
  
  A writer with tremendous power has just decided to honor me with following my blog. Please go and read what she writes because it comes from her heart.
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- CONTACTS 09.01.2017 A
  
  Posted at 11:28 am by Gordon, on September 1, 2017
  More contacts.
  
  Harsh Reality wrote that like my comment on “Life.” And, I did and do like it. Harsh Reality is also known as Opinion Man. He is someone who really puts a lot of thought into what he is writing and has a huge following.
  
  https://aopinionatedman.com/2017/08/16/life-5/?c=451612#comment-451612
  
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  MakeItUltra is another site worth visiting. The author speaks on therapy, narcissism, and narcissistic abuse. That can be found at https://makeitultrapsychology.wordpress.com/2017/08/10/5-signs-you-havent-fully-healed-from-narcissistic-abuse/
  
  There he offers 5 signs about narcissistic abuse. Very interesting.
  
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  Man of Many Thoughts is another that I have commented on and is well worth a journey to his blog to see what he is writing about. Guaranteed he can set up a scenario that will generate a lot conversations. https://keithgarrettpoetry.com/2017/08/18/dismantling-of-america/
  
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  Then there is this delightful blog BlueFishh. The author welcomes you warmly and explains what she is all about in a few simple paragraphs. The blog used to be call Economix.
  
  https://bluefishh.wordpress.com/about/?blogsub=confirming#blog_subscription-3
  
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  If I could… (Friday Night Poetry Corner #142)
  
  You have to visit this location. Seriously. The art work is interesting in itself, a bit confusing at first, but draws the artist/poet/searchers/etc (etc is a pretty big area) right in. So go, read.
  
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  Lakshmi Padmanaban is an Indian girl who …. well, you can read about her at
  
  https://thethoughtfulrants.wordpress.com/about/
  
  if I tell you anything it will spoil the adventure of going and reading her blog. So, go, now. Just do it.
  
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  jade0207 ah, this one is an area for ladies.
  
  https://being1nsane.wordpress.com/2017/08/01/why-we-desperately-need-girl-friendships-in-todays-times/
  
  164 bloggers like that page!!!!!!
  
  Personally I have always had more girl relationships than male relationships. I guess I just like women more than men and, as far as my mom and dad were concerned, that was and is a good thing. Women are just so incredible, love everyone I ever met.
  
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  Later more on Delmer Smith and the victims whose blood he shed.
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- a simple poem and random remarks 2033/08/11/17
  
  Posted at 2:18 am by Gordon, on August 12, 2017
  I Am On Fire
  
  Gordon Kuhn Copyright 8.11.2017
  
  Within the skull born of female pain
  He lashed out at the days but could not steal the stain
  That in treasured measure laid its curling tone
  Upon the printer’s inked plate during winter’s dying moan
  He never thought the deeds quite through each day
  While death visited his youth upon its way
  Ripping out the contour of his life
  Leaving behind the refuse of his strife.
  His guilt real or imagined lay deep about his feet
  No peace shall he ever through conscience release ever greet
  While in the lonely closing of his days
  Boxed in, surrounded by a killing maze.
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- A Sunday Night Poem: Passages along with random thoughts about nothing important 2248/080617
  
  Posted at 10:20 pm by Gordon, on August 6, 2017
  The Peppermint Lounge, Montego Bay, 1962
  By Gordon Kuhn copyright 08.06.2017
  all rights reserved.
  
  There once was a whore house in Montego Bay
  Where $2 bought a pitcher of beer and 5 got you a lay
  There bronze skinned ladies with loose dresses would sway
  with the music until the break of day
  Never letting the customers stray too far away
  Ah, the booze was cheap and the ladies kept their smiles
  And we never once shared our private trials
  But laughed and danced and drank the night away
  Until dawns’ light broke the fragile spell
  When we went back to the ships with memories to tell
  Our youthful hunger for rowdy times and cheap romance sated
  To the ships where our rifles and ammo near our packs silently waited.
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