Monday, April 30, 2012

Ancient Words

Without wisdom
in those who teach,
... would this create poverty?

Those who exhort
... without pause
render either parody, or jest?

Empowering others
without comedy, without employ
works to confuse Plebes?

Phoebe has no message to forward;

Browse, I am the poet, browse
because I do not need to explain
... not now,

Beings in my poems, Sir,
I do not have to name.
Though they are you.

As the words can be few.
To the end read through
between the lines, read through.



Patrick Darnell (2000)

Noah

As he got older
His hearing sharpened
His hair did not thin
He didn't need much sleep ...

Instructions received
by Noah and his family:

Two of each animal
Two of each living thing
Two of each living thing in Earth
and Seven of each clean animal.



Patrick Darnell

Is Clinton Autistic?

Hampered with self-stimulatory
deficiency?
He seems to have tunnel vision.

Is his life, or lack of,
a series of short stories?

Can I diagnose broadly:
according to social interaction ...
communication, or lack of,

Stereo-typical patterns of bad behavior
a marked impairment in
use of non-verbal behavior.


Patrick Darnell (2000)

I am, You are

You care not if
I am totally yours,
or totally not yours?

That is your love?

Be careful
that you not spoil me

For you see
I am experiencing
some things here
for the very first time

Maybe you have it mastered,
is it in your suffering?

In askance
of all who respond
to you,

Now must respond to us.

Responding as if
for the first time again,

With this
unnerving desire
to express it
... is a fester.


Patrick Darnell (Aug 23, 1993)
Was it fair
I gave to her first
all that was
in me?

She filled me up.

A quenching.

Yet we should
get one matter straight

Competition
for the floor
is cute...
... but not resolvable.



Patrick Darnell

Sunday, April 29, 2012

I Drive a Truck




by Pat Darnell

I drive a truck
that's got something written
...on the side

I drive a truck
it's got something written
...on the side

It says Micro Mickey's
Double D-D's
Carpet Cleaning
Specialties and Supplies
Honk if you like.. it says...
if you like the way I drive

I drive a truck
wid' that written
on the side

I got no where
to go that
I can really hide
Mickey thinks its funny
I don't see it all that way
he don't have to drive it
like I drive it around all day...
I might drive to Alabama
I might drive to Oceanside
I might drive to Odessa
Or Columbus, Ohi'
Or maybe Argentina;
People allus' honkin' at me
...nowhere can I hide, in'a
truck with them things...
...written on the side

if you see me out a truckin'
remember how I...
...remember how I ride
please don't...
please don't honk at me
when you read...
...when you read what's
written on the side.

Lot's of trucks goin' by
...going by all day and night
"You the only one I can trust
with all those supplies..."
Says Mickey D D to my cries.

Blue, silver-tan; green and white
lot's of trucks going by
I'm feelin' so uptight....

Some of them got something...
something written on their side...
I drive D-D's truck...
...cannot shuck ya and jive...
cannot lay down dirty and die--
You know Mickey: I cannot tell you lies

I sure am wishin' that I was not denied...
'sure wish I could,
...could a' instead a' drive --
Could a' instead a' drive
a Harley Davidson Electra Glide

Lawd a'mercy... Lawd alive--
please deliver me, Lawd
...deliver me from this
...this delivery truck I drive
wi' all that mess
...all that mess,
written up on its side.

[Endorsed by The P Darnell and Arthur T Reading Rainbow Write at least one Poem a Week Coalition 1986 - 2009]

Patrick Darnell (2009)

Addled Ambulations

Resource notes taken,
goes directly into paper,
re-write up to three drafts,
handled and edited later

FedEx waits at my door
depending on paper cuts
mind, body, and soul sore
this rhyme sucks more 'n more

Sometimes I get so tired
and bloody, I just let it go,
regardless of the stage it is in,
walk away, slip away pliered

Sometimes I hang in
for harmony obfuscated
Sometimes focus abated
from beginning to end,

which makes sensual
harmonious voice,
brilliant content and style
as if a palette choice
with plan visual
and a foot in the eternal

Often focus fraught,
and my humor is not --
really start to stooper
sounding like a Hoover.

Addled ambulates
damaging briefs
in long winded tides
pressure sucking out insides

Much befuddlement
esoteric rudiments
languages, logarithms
algorithms, audacity
condensation equality
balanced formulations,

postulated reason,
simple formula
in judicial sensing
canceled bail out
thought opinion in
faulty grammar cleansing

Is that more eloquent,
more efficient stuff
more concise intention
than declaration suffocation


In conjured systems
and time lagged creations
due to counselors
and others whose
eyes do not want to face
myths of truth's roots

Yet, they that are just file clerks,
inefficient at that...
that anyone places trust in
Postulate that crap

Because I am older enciting
have been creative 42 years
drafting, designing, certifying
just to be nullified by peers

printing, painting, presenting
trading at shows,
I jam as much
into assignment
as possible;

TEXT me tomorrow ..
OK?


pat. pend. / Pat Darnell


Patrick Darnell (2009)

Pre-Rumble

I am born
a perfecting man
a sound
low rumbling
philosophy, yes.

Tried in established
patterns, with substance,
with improvements.

Corrections are made
and lessons learned
through mimicry

Yet while I live
rustle me up
some boulders'
and build me
a pyramid
to land on
when I'm dead.

And tape up my ducts
carve a sarcophagus
for my bed
surround me with
jewels from toe to head.

Going from unborn
to beyond dead,
As I want to
rumble the future
when they take out
my sutures.



Patrick Darnell

Tadpole

I evaluated myself
I analyzed my biology
Traced behavior
with half a brain
and that half
with the other half.

The process
was a comfort...
I was comforted though
confronted with failings
well, first, such anger ...
then fatigue
... a real cry baby;

Not a man; not a fool;
just weakling
... a tadpole, eeling
in a pond pool.

Tackling changes
and obstacle full
to and fro
with the whole school

Where leads
a life in the pond
but to a stranger life
upon the land?


Patrick Darnell (2000)

Lamentations

It should have been so different ...
I've cattle in my notebook;

To auction, to auction they go ...

With pigs in their stomachs
and nowhere to go ...

... but to auction, to auction they go.


Patrick Darnell (MooPig)

Is Love

As rubber once;
challenged love
rebounds,
in life again

Yet to submit
is to be wise,
go to depths
and, heights it flies

Harbor hopes
in its constant tide
in patience and kindness
love cannot be denied.


Patrick Darnell

Building Blocks of Young Adults

Structure like any structure
is only time, space, and dates ...
also place ... but

Time causes all the fussing;

Time draws the constant linear
that society needs when it is aware;

Many in the present society
have drawn lines in the sand
for sake of benevolence
altruism, and philanthropy...

Time must not advance
till these histrionic mileposts
are set... some would say --

[ ... ]

A helping hand
you can bet
will not come from
your fellow man!

Consider who you are
dealing with;
highly technological
illogical, detoured
data-packed
screw worm...

Theory tacks
and thumbnail hacks
sketches of guilt sacks!

Party to
many initiates
and apprenticeships
until met
the class of worker
who does nothing
until once free
to produce and bloom
then be compensated.

However, relate to
dilemmas
they shall plan
more months
in advance
weeks at a time
till things come to pass

Convert, invert,
challenge and confuse,
react.

Do things get better?
Easier than the climate --
that by the way,
makes one sick;
reminds them of mornings
inspires odd behaviors --
'n mixtures of water
times guilt
up built
upon heaps of complex blotters

Actions therefore deny
state of society
and blur the reason for existence
because numbers of
tasks remain unfinished.

And they are left
with the guilt-phobias
that never get extinguished
even in truth of personality
or diminished return on investments
while the push of time
leaves them bereft structures --
the building blocks of young adults.


Patrick Darnell

Patina

Personal thoughts
certain distillates
of character
precipitates
becoming
third person

Not a whip
nor a will
rather
a Bobolink
on a sill
by newsprint
crumpled
ink stained
moldy
songs of old

Protecting
images on glass
where paper marbles
and tears
and sand disintegrates
'n rubs off ancient silver
from photographs, not permanent

Memories of
lives and
substance
energies would
be lost otherwise
no physical evidence
left behind
save patina
protecting time
Things forever held
and felt in the mind.


Patrick Darnell (1.7.2001)
When I stare
up in the atmosphere
Pressing my eyes
I see the
geode eyes of an eagle,
and face of a man,
I see the
legs of an ox,
and heart of a bear;

God placed there
long ago
in my stamping
the blocks for a coinage
like a geode rare.



Patrick Darnell

A Speech

Who will take the authority position, most oftener determined by experience, or, senior position?

In rich experiences, the ambition of authority comes with performance. Then authority leads the day, setting examples.

Should authority one day become vague, distant, and vacillating, the old defining rules are lost, no longer good enough.

Thus, most authority stems from check and balance ... status good, human affairs move forward ... status quo.

Reaching for the goal established by authority means one has accepted fear of traveling, even if saddled by a gauntlet of human error ...

Equal authorities would imply the same rationale of fear of playing roles.

The body of work is the journey, with evidences.


Patrick Darnell

Conquest

Like a hockey puck
to the gut
... Realization

Like a large dimensional
foot print on Mars
... Disclosure

Like severance of
a tether
... Deliverance

Like honey
on a brick
... Sticky

Like snow
on a mountain
... Unstable

Like Jesus
in a tomb
... Temporary.



Patrick Darnell

Yellow Butterfly

Went to a funeral today
not for a man or a woman
... for a child.

She was four
... when last she breathed

She was four
... when last we breathed.



Patrick Darnell

Kites over Tents

Slept they there
all night, under woven
canvas wall tents;

Gulf wind wove over
cloud steam and vapor
streaming all night;

Through bull rush salt grasses
drove mosquitoes
inland with clouds

Clouds pushing past
stationery moon
faced with foggy
eyed tears

Tents grommets
held fast
till wind relents
and is paced out;

Orion pops out
with its string of stars
tethered to dippers

And diamonds of clippers
set sail afar
kites over tents,
kites over tents.



Patrick Darnell (March 2001)

Spindles and Oil

Remorse
destructive course
And, many animals perish
while forests evaporate
with water dissipates
for what...?
Spindles and oil,
just, spindles and oil.





Patrick Darnell (2000)

Seeing You

If I could not see
Well, then I could not see you

Nor, see the Hibiscus bloom
this morning with
Morning Glories

I could not have seen
those birds playin'
leaping frogs
and chirping stories

Or, the Mockingbird
splashing in puddles
from yesterday's rain

When you played
with your umbrella
on sidewalks and drains
with little fellas

If I could not see you
as you sway reaching
for your keys
on the window sill

I would still say
'This is the day
For which I pray.'




Patrick Darnell (9.21.1999)

Children Sculpt with Water

I watch my
children sculpt with water
rather than hard clay
putting their world in order
emboldened hard play

Children sculpt with water
... water ever moving
catching light in lightning spray,
matches their shyness,
children sculptors who win this day.

Every drop a prism
casting colors all around
making a shroud for earth
mixing dust from the ground.



Patrick Darnell (10.16.1999)

The Story of Carol Hoofen-nagle

Carol Hoofen-nagle
lived at 16th First Place
on Shastina's shadow

She is victim zero
of a dastard plague
that they call
Hoof in Navel

They have put
Wal-mart legal team
on it ... and ...
from Bentonville, Arkansas
they have solved it;
so they think...

By putting it in lay-away
three months to pay
on a no interest bearing
account, that way
they may have
saved the day!

Mr Harold Horseford
drove his Dodge truck
to the next mountainside
because he must decide
if Carol Hoofen-nagle
might become his bride
but Carol him denied

So Harold met and married
Randi Tapir, healthy, less harried
beauty from Shastina's mountainside
fresh as mountain countryside

Sorrow visited poor Harold
as Carol H died after four months
so sorrowful he, he left his wife,
left life as he knew it
... to sadly abide
on Shastina's mountainside.


Carol Hoofen-nagle was survived
by Lori Arkwright, who eyed
Ibid Deuteronomy ready and alive
to give her a ride atop Shastina
where they might study astronomy
Until she told Ibid of what
her dear sister, Carol had died

Ibid, he excused himself
ran down the mountainside
and into town to hide.

Along came Mr Harold Horseford
seeing Lori as she cried
reminding him much of Carol
he offered her too a ride
and ride she did
until in deep slumber
they both lied.

This story should
by now unravel
but it is an endless
mountain travel
up and down North California
Where strong men in Dodges
Keep two stables, they trade,
regardless of love-centric adages
and dread Hoof in Navel plague


Patrick Darnell (2000)

When I wasn't Looking

I saw you poised
... subject in a painting
... in a gallery

Then I met you,
... in a room
... when I wasn't looking

Felt like something more
... chance of meeting
... should've left it there

'Rebelled against
... better judgment
... got to know you more:

As you wanted the elder life
while retreated in your youth.



Patrick Darnell (1978)

You Decided to Live in a Fish Tank

To the fish tank to live
until a future day
you may emerge
possibly sterile.

For the day
was for you
... like yesterday
when peril
day in, day out
same as last year
the days...
... no one could reach you,
for your haste in climbing in.

A fish tank
of seawater
to be amongst
they who swim
eat, dodge,
and dart.

After they've gotten
used to you
and you to them
watching one another
... well, it's a start.

Patrick Darnell (1993)

Cathedral

Moby is swimming the staircase
to the cathedral

It is a long staircase
almost unreachable
long to the landing

The unreachable cathedral
For now!

Spanning miles
holds them apart
but for a Moby
... a mile
is one single down-thrust.



Copyright © 2010-11 Patrick Darnell (3.19.1991)

Troubles

Troubles, snares
too numerous
the world
used to be
pedestrian

Troubles, aware
too numerous
Earth cares
it once was
a garden

Troubles, compares
come to us
Earth in layers
once we were all
children in pairs





Copyright © 2010-11 Patrick Darnell

Anna Logg

Christians lead lives
of quiet simplicity
from a softly spoke
prophecy.

For their lives in
flesh and bone
are traded
for going home.



Copyright © 2010-11 Patrick Darnell

Hide, Hide, Hideaway

An awaited storm came
I escaped to my fantasy castle
pieces of environment
blew all over in the wind
... like tassels

Elderly people
got scattered, some
... drowned
overwhelmed in vacuum
of thunderheads

And dust swirled
in Autumn sky
raised inordinate reactions
to fabulous stimuli

Play today inside
hide, hide, hideaway,
here in the puppet palace
moan and whine all day
sit in my center of calm
amid swirling gale tide
Play today, but,
... hide, hide hideaway.





Copyright © 2010-11 Patrick Darnell (3.20.2000)

Sustain

These are my family
those who accept me
for who I am
Not those who scorn me
for who I am not

Those who witness my path
know my origin
share earliest memories

From moments of hand holding
to moments of future
bearing down ...

Who will sustain forgiveness
seek harmony, focus consistency,
gather pain in empathy
and heal me
and haul me in.



Copyright © 2010-11 Patrick Darnell (9.26.1991)

Flight Song

Trippin' on the plane
atmos rushes by
in layers upon my eye

Stillness swells
like mist in desire
that heart-beat tells

consummate, though
because telltale
closure awaits

In tortured flight
anticipation
for flight's end
my Bubbalin'

At flight's end
you await
quiet against
wind-full window
one solid tear
falls to cloud white
anticipation
... awaits

So my desire
will speak to you
though transient
I fill my thoughts
with you, in tension,
in song of flight.



Copyright © 2010-11 Patrick Darnell (3.3.1996)
Dixie crowded barges
floating carnivale
tight-rope trail rider
gets on with his smoke

White trash from Texas
lantern loaded wagons
sleepy dog-faced patrons
get to the heart of Dallas

A deadly mixture
a mutt from Texas
... arms go left
...feet go right
body don't look quite right

Volunteer from Tennessee
... out of the north
... out of work
... out of the night
Poor boy gonna
lose his life.



Copyright © 2010-11 Patrick Darnell (2005)

Friday, April 27, 2012

Awakened

Time nigh
draws when
One would
wish to die ...

When baby
wanting screams
no time for dreams ...

Lack of drive spark
... due in part
to lack of inspire
in work and life

Thoughts reduced
low self esteem
where is sleep mine
under lunar shine

Raki, Turkish brew,
while body is at work
no one ever knew
imbibe whole night through

Spark of the tilt
of one's fez
rustling one's feet
on pavement there

Silly how, in past,
ghost minds wandered
passing nights
and gruesome morns.

Awakened after travel
out of flesh's bounds,
antagonized and blithering
in noisy, unforgiving towns.



Copyright © 2010-11 Patrick Darnell (1985)

Lover's Time: the Ninth Sea

Life, complicated mosaic,
many little pieces,
each confusing episodes
with, after-all, pattern.

Illusion vision quest
impressed, a jest,
for the rest, to figure out

Many times
a written message
written to one
who is long gone ...

Eight seas traveled
before the ninth,
returned one home;
returned one home.



Copyright © 2010-11 Patrick Darnell (1995)

Taco Tar-Truk

Information is anti-grav'ty
Exists as unknown entity
if anti-grav'ty exists
then how big is he?

Bubbles of universes
bent like taco shells
undiscovered intersects
where symmetry might dwell

Weightless in space
even while schwartzing the Greek
while making educated guess
button pusher on a streak

There, that explosion
sabotage, one may say,
Divine intervention ...
... it's the sauce ...
of the machine of the day.

It's a taco tar-truk
and a blemish on scale
of ten to the twenty tens
... power of snails


Copyright © 2010-11 Patrick Darnell

Seven-legged Spider

She was swinging
waiting for the web to shake
... I shook it
she came a' callin'

On my meaty parts
she started hauling
pullin' me in, no stallin'

Spinnin' me a silken berth
wrapped around my girth
semi-awake, I'm recallin'

She is seven-legged spider
who can't keep up the beat
of the different drummer's hand
... burdened with one game leg
... that draws in the sand

I see now in this glimpse,
error of infinite speculation,
conjecture of insects who climb in
never-to-be-seen-again retrospection

Little parts of us she eats
hereafter, a little each year, entreats
by aging the rest of us
in our silken cabin retreats.


Copyright © 2010-11 Patrick Darnell (9/26/1991)

Saturday, April 21, 2012

He Wrote (1955 -- 2045)

He wrote.
From his age
of reason
to his dying day

a huge book
of free verse

that no one
could make
heads nor tails of,

tho' waiver not,
he continued
right through
storms and calm
squalls and breezes,

determined
when undermined,

secretive
when incarcerate,

introspect
when surrounded,

dogmatic
when challenged,

helpful
when asked.



Copyright © 2010-11 Patrick Darnell

Purloined

Bits and pieces
were missing
from his body
a missing kidney,
a leg shortened ...

Blood terror
to have parts
of yourself purloined;

As if under a cloak
that covers dimensions,
of one's space and time
leavened in humankind;

To choose very
differently from fathers'
... consider other lifestyles
... other than path's trodden;

Humanist purloiner ...
... appropriate wrongfully
... sabotage trust
to put aside time
and postpone questions;

Fortunes spent
could not support this stint
leaving no trace,
trust funds are pilfered;

As he saw himself disappear
in to himself
his parts were cleared
for transport;

He thought he might
return whole again
one day in some way
spinning faster this time;

In his third escape
with his third hair
and third teeth
and wanton despair

From his third watch
with pain in third vertebra
... third fortune spent
... third family raised.

Blood terror
to have parts
of yourself purloined.



Copyright © 2010-11 Patrick Darnell (circa 2003)

Hey, Big Brother

Hey, big brother
You're the needle
I'm the thread.

Hey, big brother
You're the hat
on my head

You're the nose
... on my face
You're the shirt
... on my chest

Hey, big brother
you're the joy
of my day.

Hey, big brother
you and me
are here to stay

because ...

You're the mood
... I'm the swing

You're the lyrics
... when I sing

Heyyyy,
 Big Brother!!



Copyright © 2010-11 Patrick Darnell

Code Fix

Then there was the time I bludgeoned
a client's wall
pretending to know
how to mend it.

An ancient stucco wall
real lovely to see installed
see lattice below
layers of stucco
as transverse I rip into it
oldness in vapors drifting
out of the cavity I'm ripping

'Repairs will be unseen,'
I encourage the unredeem'ed
new boards ... a little paint
Another situation abused
This Code Fix will be reviewed

Copyright © 2010-11 Patrick Darnell
Wisdom is a hard case
Sometimes it grins.

What starts as a childhood thought
Grows into boundaries of one's art

Past, present, future ... Background, subject, foreground,
Pushing, ever moving, upon Wisdom's legs

Four pillars in agreement
With disturbance and a promise

Stands solid against what?

Restlessness.


Copyright © 2010-11 Patrick Darnell

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Pig

Groomed for pork burger

classed in category

buffered by ass purger

streamed by bestiary

Lapping up milk spilling

trimming the rules to fit

driving beasts to killing


Copyright © 2010-11 Patrick Darnell

“ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL, BUT SOME ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS” - George Orwell, Animal Farm, Ch. 10

Tap into the rhythm of the passersby
If they listen do I win, or do I die?
Ambitious drop zones carry your bitchin’ tune
While many fall victim to impending doom

Criminals are made, from all these pages torn
It’s you and me brother against elites born
One sniff of the leaders’ board leaves a foul smell,
do the math, you have a snow balls chance in hell.

As for a path to start I submit the above three
but add a fourth that $750 grand you will need
and as that hunger pain in your gizzard rumbles
It won’t hurt a bit if Art Linkletter is your uncle…


Copyright © 2010-11 Patrick Darnell

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Truth

Twenty-thousand persons
gathered to witness
rising tide of things ...

Humanly articulate,
god-like tongu'ed men
utter the words

words of the soul of Truth
... winged Truth ...

Now I might at last
spread my wings.

Copyright © 2010-11 Patrick Darnell

Presents Us Fluid

By magical ingest,
time previous dormant,
time began at her voice,
that I happily heard
spill at some place,
I hear it still.

The calendar started
though in mysterious depart
... or, legend, what have you,
creation of two
evolved to this.

I meet her
to hold her hand
... hold my breath ...
spend effort to be quiet
and subdue tendencies
... like to bark!

There and then
thunder started;
no more holding
a two year mentality

But, again,
the mystique of our meeting
there, like that,
with feeling
of rivers flowing
through us.








Copyright © 2010-11 Patrick Darnell

Simply ...

... Failure in developing
age-appropriate peer
relationships ...

... Lack of spontaneity
when seeking
shared interests with others,
and a real lack
of social
,or, emotional reciprocity.



Copyright © 2010-11 Patrick Darnell (2000)

Saturday, April 7, 2012

Math Model

Summarily cogitate
distance
with time
in units;

Travel modes
foot cinch
roped arc swing
conveyor
mind set and
slide rollers;

Within boundaries
of creeks, arroyos
and hollows;

Stand of cottonwoods
image break-lines
fog stalls
distant quiet;

Patterns
exist
suggest
smell, breath;

Vital molds
and
maintenance
sequential.




Copyright © 2010-11 Patrick Darnell (1977)

Beholding

Frondling of new Spring
inner quiet
dismal passage
time extremism
not soothing
Industry in
welding words
and quickness
in their fade
noticing rooting
with regard
just a day passes
of all men
their systems and ways;

Things work
but are broken by
bacterial underthings
and over-things
all a'play ...

Play puts play
in action, and
discovers
natural setting of
mistakes, and
assumptions of
carefully
planned discourse;

Remorseful buds
limit the inheritance
of property to
a succession of heirs,
arguing for a newer diagram
that academics may photograph

Lent
rooms for huge
governments detailed
in movement upon movement
of fad upon fad
spoke of because
we call the latest prophet
TIME, our judge, who has
favored as always
immaturity, and degradation.

Should you live, frondling,
in decadence ocurring sadly
next to you
frondling of a new Spring?



Copyright © 2010-11 Patrick Darnell (1977)

Friday, April 6, 2012

One Single Notion

One single notion:

Disorder out of chaos ...

Questions, like rebellion,
set adrift,
doubtful of surviving,
floating in sleeplessness.

Demands endless searches
assurances yet to come
... out of drawbacks
off warm but dangerous perches,

Rebellion in strangling circles ...

Learned, quiet, humility
detoxified,
recognized,
in broad natural effects

Genius spread on genome floor ...

Inspect, state, appreciate
a miracle of stamina

Balls of fortune
roll and bump
through gregarious
social walls

No flat surface
for potential
kinetic motions of
movable, dutiful, youth,

Who masters the rise
to be counted
by being encountered
on eave of this morrow.



Copyright © 2010-11 Patrick Darnell (1977)

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

UBILAM

Just so we are all
up to speed --
On the same page,
Concerning chaos of age --
Noting its all the rage online
with settlers of

"New Australia Lunar" Stage
Is not a gate of heaven iron
by any sage...

Goats had hitchhiked
To lunar surface early
And Goat DNA had
Entered the "Errol Morris
Clone Factory" accidentally

And today was Day of the Dead
On Ubilam Beach, where

their leader calls out names



of passed away beloved

"Bedlam, Balaam, Belem, Balsam
"Bart rap, Bangles and Bartech --"
Called Bursar the Human Zy Goat
Calling out names of his dead
And departed relatives

The new races
Of New Australia
Were exceptionally strict
Well-measured and manicured
Almost Draconian ticked

They established a cemetery for pets
And a thin blue line
For security

They held festivals regularly
Such as: Misters of Death
Like today, and Fogs of War,
And, Mists of Plutonium
Or, Holographic Holocaust horror

Also, was a day of Locusts
and The Squid and the Whale

And the naming by Bursar stopped...

Even now
As new Goat Herds
Trippingly Pronk
And roust
Bounding in the kettle moraine
Of lunar surface

One of best times in their
Golden era was 7 x 6
Lunar cycles of childhoods
pre-Time when pupae
Out-birthed as humanoids
Into conditions favorable
And not toxin to clones
Mixed with mountain stock
Of venerable RAM’s analog

As factors allow
Childhoods to reach fruition
In accordance of some singularity
Known as pre-bang mechanics

Abiding no longer
Just as a mental construct
But as a mistake of science
Achieving furtherance

Through moderate living attribute
Of environmental factors and

With pollutants in abate
Meeting effectively all appraisal
For lunar base New Australia 2108



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Ecosystem Evidence

What truly is Remarkable
There is an entire ecosystem
Living collective, in and under
The "Public Works and Metal Bending
Relics and Attributes Division"
Factory floor of Moon marble

where giant plants have rooted
growing great leaves fluted
Covering large stipules
Sticking out and being
Cross fertilized
By hummingbird spicules

Actually clones of hover
Drop tiny substance
On the flat leaves where
Large slugs scoot
along stems and roots
slurping up
droppings and algae
peanut shells, and grimy
Nicotine scale -- while


Winged butterflies follow
Their sluggish friends
And poke in turn
in the dust
on pollen laden heads
Of hummingbird's

Circles of oily fungi
Form in the slug slime
Growing into mushrooms
Of lunar kind

Microscopic inspection
Would doubtless reveal
An entire sub-visible thrill
Of thistle and seed
Typical of nature's industry
Of outback flotsam and debris
Underway now for a century



Copyright © 2010-11 Patrick Darnell (circa 2003)

New Australia

A goat kissed the mist
Her name is D V Dram,
She was looking for
2020 exhibits on Main
At Chevy Chase Ray
in New Cairo, Siam

She did a quick search
On her Bic.surgeX
To match the beast
At her feet, on its leash
With something
Recognizable of late
In her "Lunar Navigator
Correlative plates"

As missionary to moon
Her mission had been
Preach -- teach -- reach
But how
If she could not even
Understand
The primal screech
or errant bray
Of a flawed speech

How D V Dram
Worried for her kind
The boulevard
Was vacated at this time
But a large building
Was teeming
With fellow goat-herds seeming
To cajole and work
So there she commenced
To investigate the edifice where
The sign read "New Australia
Public Works and Metal Bending
Relics and Attributes Division"

Loud equipment
Being run by
Even louder natives
Conveyors fed presses
Up and down went machines
Banging thunderously
Into their bases
Where from afterward
Bent metal shot out
Onto belts and rollers
To where sparks flew
As parts got welded

D V Dram’s wrist vibrated
To show her the implicated
Match to her query of late
"It is a Dog-Cat,
somewhat matriculated"
"Thanks, SurgeX, return to steady state.."




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Self interest

Heightened senses, much like,
Reality is no reality...
surrounded by gravity
So must pass through
Deaf, dumb processing
Go they, so, virtually
Real, eh...
And that’s not all

There is self service
It is complicated, much like,
"Who said we should clip wings
"And tag bears
"And skin leopards ?"

Some curse of dust
moon settlers continue to live under
Proceeding with others’ wishes
Like once was said --
It is complicated

Much like Freemasonry,

and cults of fertility

How else could

well meaning descendant's'

of Baal find redeeming lives

than by staging robust migrate

to Lunar Base 2108?

Too many replications
Destroy antidotes
No one will baby sit
Like billy goats
No being does--
No caste has gone this remote.



Copyright © 2010-11 Patrick Darnell (circa 2003)

The Naked Stalk

Mote, threshed loosed
chaff
Dry grass,
sodder
Stalks of grain, straw,
Stubble of
Naked husk
To settle forth
Vapors
Chaff

Lecherous she-things
seem to steam out
of walls, and seams
And even from books

Acting on treachery
Everywhere --
Even from her regard
In possession of she-brain

She-goat Elizabeth
Mourns the mist
‘Must we wake to mist?
Every morn?’
She asks Brother Charles
And Freddie Fodder




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Explorer

Pygmy rock bounder
Horned errant
As mists lifts
Burning away
Stratified
Immersed
Pledged woolly robed visitor
In secrets earnest

To charge enemies who
Advance in truest form
Train eyes sternest
Cry: "Forward --
“No retreat”

Woes freighted
As traumas converge
Valor splendid
On shoulders
In morning mists
As moon and sun
Set and rise
with moon wind between

ram heads
Filling sky
Barely above mists
Eye on eye
Brains of rams
and goat heads of the mists
leaping in sixth sense
high flying in gravity sixth



Copyright © 2010-11 Patrick Darnell (circa 2003)

Sun not up yet

Sun not up yet --
In dawn haze
She is there; She is there
Horned owl, winged lion
Catching frog eyes
To swallow

Drops down
Plucks them
From grassy hideaways
Fills her gullet

Sharp her eyes
Sharper talons
Her direct flight
Efficient and fruitful
Sends chills down
A morning spine

Rabbits run across lupines
on Grandmother’s grave
stop abrupt, give vigil gaze

...above in predawn predation haze
First light; she splinters off
To her loftier nest
full of Owlets, hungry
For rat, frog and fish

-- Life evident

birth Burdened with Myth
Owl knows well that night
is Living history of moon light
Lunar specter as light reflector
Like an hour of darkness laser

Moon has been burdened
As accurate metaphor for Satan
Masquerading as source of light
But really only reflecting
some True light down on paths
Of those living in darkness --
Truth eclipses comparison
but Satan was shackled
by the Son


Copyright © 2010-11 Patrick Darnell (circa 2003)

The Hitchhiker

Turning the tables
Always led to
Increase in hitchhiking;

Why?

Due to turn-about
Is still fair-play.

Canyon freckled
Creation reckoned
Space time beckoned
Journey on spinning spheres

Litany of courage
Frailty of flash
Hounded, lest forgotten
Satan shackled
at last

Creation ending
Creation unfolding
Only restart of something
Rewind and fast forward

Woolly barber
intending well shearer
Lamb of God
Reckoned hitcher
Promise perfect

Garden lair
and Rams’ pairs
Creation of mist
Ram heads in the air




Copyright © 2010-11 Patrick Darnell (circa 2003)

Goat Heads of the Mists

Out of the mists
Ascend goats
Toppling cairns
Riding magma moat
Of conformation
And advent

Amid new Tibetan craters
Stiffened n’ arched spines
Hoofed charger,
ramming speed
Radiant goat
heads butting, butting
Sure-foot woolen beast
Carved in stone
Circumstance and path
Origins of goat alphabet
Goateed alphabet of rut
In New Australia 2108




Copyright © 2010-11 Patrick Darnell (circa 2003)

Glass

Glass state clearly
fits neither solid nor liquid;
a mixture of characteristics
distinct with patterns
from behavior in heat context

A frozen liquid
at room temperature
solid, stretched glaze
runny liquid at 1500 degrees C

Softening, stretching, flowing,
heat forming equations;
basic element like solids plays
constraints in glass encouraged
to form certain ways.


Copyright © 2010-11 Patrick Darnell (2004)

Lazik Works

It is hard enough to write
when eyes aren't right
difficult to read
when seeing in threes

Forfeit clarity ...
... job's not done
Forfeit integrity ...
... orders don't come!

Eye socket mold
blindness as foretold
invent a corrector,
Lazik eye vector

Of scientific reason
of heated cohesion
Carbonized flesh
sacrificed epithelial
scent rising up fresh
life is buttercup thresh.

Now we write agilely,
and see just nattily.



Copyright © 2010-11 Patrick Darnell

Recall my Angel

To my not ready heart
And from an immeasurable abyss
of my experiences appalling
Father finds me falling
and angrily a'stalling

Enemies gather 'round me
not by silence but
by bastard din, my haggard ears
caked in crustiness of living
crust of grievous, costly, heart

Not as master of life
Rather, dogged, clowned
of stupendous grounds
renown in hapless pounds
hunted down
by song-less hounds.

Sown like a mustard seed
felled in ragweed
among stones and cairns
by some miracle alive --
-- in crags of coincidence
sustaining this life

Life fleeing
out of present being
he, she, and, it breathe
esophageal -- would not
one angel appeal ...
bend a wing
come to my aid
heed my prim voice staid?

From this expression of grave
where lies grandfather
and grandmother
I am weak, sad, depraved,
not brother nor son
of an angel

Conjured in plasmagel!

Recall my angel
to sit with me
in silence,
before the light,
before the river,
before the river arrives
to see my angel
and senses enlightened soul.



Copyright © 2010-11 Patrick Darnell (1991)

Message to the Reader

Specifically,
Christ has come,
and risen, and claimed
He will come back;

And, we are all still crazy,
in a rebellion,
that will not
end nicely;
according to
the manual.



Copyright © 2010-11 Patrick Darnell

Drought / Burn Ban / Brazos County

Reveal to me
oh, Lord,
Heaven, and,
Hell ...

101 degrees Fahrenheit
June, 2005.



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Catch a Book

balance
knowledge
source
innocence

compare
analyze
open database

segment
region
match

bullets
service
dodge

book
persuade
resolve



Copyright © 2010-11 Patrick Darnell

The Hawk Above me Soars

Pain universal
I mourned you Carmella
I mourned a year
and a day

You sailed through
on a whisper--
You returned
a Hawk fisher
oft' a'flight
a wind storm fissure.

Forgive the living kind
I see your frights are over
And my grief is crazy.

Not a day more spake
not another sob I break
no more tears, no more tears
tracing my eyes...

Good bye Mom
You soar God's thermals
fly free to Dad
above trees
Love cannot wait but eternal.



Copyright © 2010-11 Patrick Darnell 2006

Folk Song

Tall unbending
Leaves un-lending
to the call of the wind ...

Nature 'round us
still astounds us ...
Beauty found within.

And, in the shade
A figure laid
Cool and so calm ...

Look at our world.

Let it be
For I have seen
With Truth,
What it is
To find beauty.


[Author Unknown, Folksong from the 1970's]

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Rise Here; Lower There

We know when we must write;
When we do write more often
our thoughts gather faster
we become practiced writers.

Tendencies of our poet
of our artist, of our painter --
our own agent --
Who could conglomerate?

Free to explore, scavenge,
race, multiply, score,
etch, cantor, euphor'--
So that want of our kin ...
... is no more.


Copyright © 2010-11 Patrick Darnell

Ho Hum

Marriage of convenience,
lifestyle; my manifest --
chosen availability
rather than question

Hit home; Comfort zone
I rarely leave it to anyone
acceptance dictates
economy of means
with similar results always
unrequited main stream.


Copyright © 2010-11 Patrick Darnell

Shop till You Drop

Repeated entry in a space
create required excitement
for certain peak performers

Make many stops
for persons are continually
advancing through many portals

Oriented to drive the sexes
who are tough to secure ...
low ratio aisle to shelves
perfecting human elicitation

Coy accidents in new environments
for manipulation, exacerbates
shoppers' time references;

Thus,
could be infinite
the time spent
to shop till you drop.





Copyright © 2010-11 Patrick Darnell

Sunday, April 1, 2012

A Song Act

Impulse to see
Zero where we
impulsed to hike
some scuba gear
and ski boat alike
as the upside
of irrational fears
Dive! Dive, ye men!
Don't you have a yen?
Dive! Dive again...
Give it all you can!
Trillion is spent
to make contact
and prove that we
as a people
are totally
unprepared to act
So burly ones:
Dive! Dive, ye men!
Don't you have a yen?
Dive! Dive again...
Give it all you can!
Contact is our faith;
a self-reinforced
Illusion-ary tact
otherwise journey
that never took place,
we are all alone
as a proto race.
Dive! Dive, ye men!
Don't you have a yen?
Dive! Dive again...
Give it all you can!
First contact might prove
we are not ultra-individualists
some might need sent
corrective surgery
betraying a vindictive
with temperaments surly.
C'mon altogether now, yowl:
Dive! Dive, ye men!
Make new friends...
Dive! Dive again...
maybe to ascend!




Copyright © 2010-11 Patrick Darnell

Humility

What badge
do I wear
for you to spare
my life?

What element
do I use
to make sacrifice?

What do I pierce
to break through,
Savior, to You?

Why do I still dispute
the greatest is the servant?
Explains who dominates?

Leading is stewarding;
before GOD ...



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Eternal Materials of Construction

Sand castles...
above sand animals,
before high tide,
no respirators, nor,
foundation sound enough
to lay our life's' on

look for Jesus mud ...
maybe day will bring
it to light,

belief is reality ...
serious builds of bodies
need only apply, within ...

Hearing words...
to put them in actions,
build on rocks.

Rising water will not
destroy, nor move,
your dwellings.




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2 Minute Dream: Youthfulness

Melchi ...

Melchizedek
was King of Salem

he was Priest
of God Most High

And he might've
straddled the line
concerning the fate
of Poland ...

but he knew what's right;
Melchi was one of two rabbits

Most decorated
in colors of Heaven

Next to a fake name
and fake hare
in fake colors of heaven

And as all waited
by the Gate ...
...
the farmer with a pole
chased the fat fake
rabbit away.


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Do Tell

Tinker Belle
does not live here now
Her comforts,
here do not dwell.

But if she visits
with her graces
let me know.
Do tell.




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