Runner Up

Second place 

I'm never happy in it.

I want to be your beloved

Sick of cost benefit

I must cost more.

I compete

Get my hands blistered

Give up my dreams

Change who I am

Slither in the garbage.

Is it first born syndrome?

Or did I come screwed up?

Putting this 

On the computer

For all to see

Technology, the death of privacy.

I enjoy serving 

I'm tired of giving up myself.

Is love unconditional?

I would like to think so

Experience tells me otherwise.

Use me up

Burn me until

I'm charred ash.

I will give 

Until there is nothing left. 

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Jump!

Jump!

Jump!

As high as you can

As much as you can

With a smile on your face

 

It's about living

It's not about filling

It's about feeling

 

Walking out into the unknown

It is dangerous

Feeling sensitivity

It is wonder's

 

Life is not a box

It is not a noun

An action a verb

To be lived

Felt

With joy and openness

 

Love from your heart

Feel from your soul

Create with God

This life

 

Your Life

Whatever you choose to make it

Jump!

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One Word

One word

What to select

Just a solitary remark

Forever echo

One word

I love you

Technically three

 

 

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Vulnerability

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It is hard to feel

Painful to experience

To give

 

Vulnerability

A necessity for connection

It is tough

 

Open hearted

Take risks

Become rejected

Feel deserving of love

 

Every one deserves

Joy

Excruciating to get to

One moment to the next

 

Joy pain joy pain

The Buddha was right

Life is suffering

Enjoy it

Be vulnerable to it

Embrace it

Live it

 

You are worthy

Of the pain

Of the joy

Of love

Of connection

 

Of life

You are worthy

Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World

The end is near

Violence the sent of a wet blanket

Can burn your eyes if you rubbed it in

Let it go

Let it all go

Flush it down

Where it belongs

Love

True real warm red love

Conquers all

Even death

Romantics understand

Embrace each other

On warm clean white sheets

Gaze into the bright center of true being

Love the one only proper reality

The lone thing that may actually

Be real

Home Coming 2003

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The first high school dance

The only high school dance

I attended

I pass you in the hall way

There you are dressed

In blue like your eyes

We look at each other

Deep into our souls

We don’t speak

I dance with her

I keep gazing upon you

There is an awkwardness between us

You dance with him

Maliciously smiling

I too force

A smile acting like

I was having the time

Of my life

While you spin and twirl

A game we both played

She broke up with me

That night I cried

I thought of you

In the social circle

The next day rumors

Of sucking face

Drove me mad

I haven’t dated you

I would talk with you in lonely halls

But some how

I knew

I still know

You are my wife

I put that ring on

Your finger

It still shines like new

That night I danced with her

You danced with him

I knew I was destined

To be with you

Contagion

Have a good day

They just don’t happen

You have to make them

Have a good day

Live with purpose

And if we give

Life purpose

What is more earnest than

A good day?

Have a good day

They just don’t happen

Be conscious causality

And if you are conscious causality

You will be a domino

In a chain of flowering

Emotions are contagious

Change yourself and

You save the world

Choose yourself and

Others won’t have power over you

Be yourself and

You’ll like who you are

Smile more and

See who smiles with you

And if they frown

And they will

Don’t give up yourself

Don’t fall to the contagion

The empty lament

They say

Smile and the world smiles back

Good guys finish last

I don’t believe the last line

And the first is not always true

Have a good day

It is what you make it

You are the choice

No matter the situation

No matter what is

Choose yourself

                                     

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Smile more

Frown less

Play more

Work less

And for gods sake!

Love yourself

Be yourself

And have a good day

Happy Go Lucky

I am happy

Go lucky

I love

To smile

I love

To laugh

I am happy

Go lucky

There is

A dark side

To me

Few know it

Some read it

On a blog

I love

To love

Just being

Happy

Go lucky

Show me

your darkside

and ill show

you

Mine

Then

together

Lets

Love

 and

Laugh

I want you

to smile

Xenomorphic Love

I like the shadows,

The dark unillumination of my being

I just want to love you

If you would but allow me

Take you back to my hive

Allow my hugger to grab your face

And love you

You misunderstand me

Yes I have jagged teeth

And yes two jaws

And of course

Acid for blood

Don’t let that frighten you

I am a lover

I just want to worship you

Take you back to my nest

And adore you

Is that so wrong?

Ok you are right

My tail is sharp and a little snaky

My friends are a little rough on the face

My children tend to burst out of you

But I am the best

You will ever know

Six Years in the Making

What have we been?

Where are we going?

Where will life take us?

The true story

Only god knows

Tears of joy

Laughter of sorrow

Smiles of compassion

Talk of understanding

Lips of compromise

A love that is committed

A life that is shared

Two people who still care

Six years and counting

We spend our lives together

Happily happy

And sorrowly sad

A combination

A connection

A love that

We share

Saturday Love

Saturday Love  ( based on Angels and Airwaves, written by Tom Delong)

 

I fly SR71’s in the warehouse

You laugh

You compare me with your three year old

Thank you

I still dream

I still see color

I have a soul

Its been screaming to come alive

I walk around the shadows

The observer in my own life

I am ready to take ownership

I have to admit

That I do feel like

An obtuse shape

The missing piece

Colorless

Without a pattern

I have not found my whole

Ill never grow up

I refuse

My innocence

My love

My soul

Will not die

I Dream

Of the color

That childlike

Spontaneous

Fun

Unadulterated

 Love

This is within every one of us

We have been caged

I wait sixteen

A Saturday love

Your eyes never grow up

Find your virtuousness

You’re childlike Innocence

That is yelling

To get out

And find its way

To never grow old

Being Human

We are all undesirable elements

It depends on your point of view

Take my hand

Let us climb mountaintops

Alone with our nature

Allowing the surreal feeling

To take over us

As we climb into each others arms

Alone in the valley

Its is just the two of us

That’s all we need

Let us be free together

Let us sing to the heavens

The fantastic song of life

Bare foot on rocks

Let us step out of this rotten old box

Let us build a fire that

Ignites our souls

Let us run past midnight

Allowing only our heat

To keep the fire alive

Let us get the hell out of here

Before they fully take

What is left of us

Let us jump naked

Into the cool blue waters

And feel what it is

  To be alive

And actually feel it

Not just mimic it

But to feel it

Really feel it

Experience that feeling

That feeling will bleed into our souls

Then

We will truly understand

What it is to be human

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Love Is not Perfect

My love is not perfect

Far from

I took it for granted

Allowed it to shrivel and prune

The thorns larger than

The roses

Love is more

Than a feeling

But the feeling

                                                                         Is there

It’s a commitment

A selflessness

A painting that is

Never Finished

I have allot

Of learning

To do

Mixing

Black root beer

With

White Ice cream

Letting the two halves

Mix and become

One

Letting go

Of resentment

Knowing your fear

Was not a way

To control

Rather

A place of your love

For me

As my burn

Shows

Still allot

Of learning

To do

Maybe one day

My love

Will be perfect

I will be

Dead by

Then

But everyday

Little by little

I keep learning

Maybe one day

I will get there

Until that day

I will struggle

And yearn

And be

Forever thankful

That you are

At my side

Leading me

To the

Perfect love

That we

Share

Connection

Connection is the most important

Part of being human

We connect with many things

But the most significant connection

Is with each other

When I talk to you

And you talk to me

And we can get along

Even with all of our problems

That is a beautiful thing

When you can support me

And I can support you

On interests that don’t interest us

That is a loving deed

When you become you

And I become me

And we put away our misery

Our lives open up

To each other

For each other

Yes we have our flaws

But making this work

Not for obligation

Not because we are afraid of the future

Not for anything else

We make this work

Because of our strong connection

And that connection

That is spectacular living