Crowsidgeridge

Midnight Bottling

Midnight bottles
darkly brown
wet and shiny bright
the lights are on
in brewerytown
i work the long long night

clatter-banging
tinkling glass
the headysmell of beer
midnight blue
where are you?
it seems i'm always here

midnight people
sleepy eyed
nights pass by so slow
stomach aches
pounding head
spirits sinking low

bottles jingle
as they move
noisy through and through
midnight madness
feel so bad
don't know what to do

December 12, 1989
At Strohs Brewery
Longview, Texas

Thoughts

Remembrances,
the glimmering arches
that span
the summits of the mind. . .

Kahlil Gibran

Shrooms

Psychedelicious Psylicybiniums 2004

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oRKvpZ7PjE&feature=related

We

arm-in-arm we wander
searching sights to see

seldom planning anything
whatever will will be

whereabouts are pointless
if we have nowhere to go

moving into time itself
our shadows melt and flow

1991

Longlegs

Longlegs and blue eyes 1999

Mindbend

from far Atlantic seas
come now crashing waves
to penetrate my mind
as well as soul
their cold power
now dulled by Gulfstream heat
still they blast in
after the surging all night chase
of Orion's silver chariot
disappearing now
into the Texas sand
and into our hearts

Surfside, Texas
1988

Space Surfer

Galactic Point Break m=213 GHMCOSMOS

Sun in Halo

ample morning pleasure
found along the way
its a sentimental journey
on a February day

sunny morning jumpup
its early yet its warm
its a way to getup
to let that sunshine swarm

rounder than a halo
color of a peach
a bit of early freedom
is just within my reach

going to the Brewery on Farm Road 1845
February 15, 1978

Tige

Tige as Anubis 2004

Facetism

INANDOUTINANDOUTINANDOUTINANDOUT
2004

Pace Street

growlin', growlin'
all night long
cars on Pace Street
sing their song

hurry, hurry,
sirens urge
as they scream
their mournful dirge

howlin', howlin'
winding gears
Jap bikes roar
assaulting ears

roaring, roaring,
through the night
the midnight train
of awesome might

2008

Fish

Greenfish 2005

Sunburn

Sunburn

A question of pretense

a moon-rippled dark is over us now
and a passing of sun-glittered stars

a chill from a new-morning day has begun
to erase those yesterday scars

a positive stance is the definite pose
that we now must assume for this day

thinking of riding the crest of a wave
to the tide-ruffled shore far away

a flight to Nirvana on fleece-feathered wings
will ease the mad dreamers mind

maroons and bright blues are the colors to choose
for a rainbow inside your own mind

1972

The Whyrink

Whyrink has a pointy snout,
pointy teeth and pointy head. . .
Whyrink only feeds on toes,
of people sound asleep in bed. . .
So wear galoshes when you sleep,
you'll wake with every toe. . .
And if its raining cats and dogs,
you'll be all set to go. . .

From the Book of Goon

Sunburn

Summersun 2009

A cold morning in early November

sundown's message came too late
for the winter wind to hear

the slanting rays of autumn sun
are bringing winter near

dull grey days returned on zephers
laced up with icy chill

the farmer's fields are fallow now
just beyond the hill

abstract lights from shining skies
are like a visual tune

twilight clouds are seen to march
'cross the early rising moon

November 2, 1975

Faces

Faces rolling on the tide. 2003

Tides of life

'tis but a thing of gaucherie
to think you ride forever
upon the same wave;
for the waves are but
playthings for the moon,
and the moon appears
each day at a different time,
and each wave
is unlike the ones
before and after,
it matters not,
for all ultimately end
in a sigh of foam
at the edge of the earth. . .

1975

Woman in a thong

2001

The Rain Run

everyone was standing,
milling around, muttering,
five thousand runners
waiting,
like a giant flock of birds,
mostly similar in shape,
clothing, and temperment,
waiting to migrate, to fly,
we were a huge gathering. . .
the signal finally came,
and we all slowly advanced,
lifting off like some behemoth,
a flock of eager fliers;
it was raining so hard,
so unbelievably dense
that runners ahead of me
cruised into the rainfall
and then just disappeared,
while those behind me
seemed to materialize
out of the foggy clouds. . .

Stroh's Run for Liberty

Dallas, Texas 1984

Life is a Ball

The wisdom of the Tao

He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands himself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
Lao-Tse

Pink cats

Pink cats 2003

Ying and Yang Romantics

warmth and cold
love and indifference
trust and fear
desire and emptiness
heartbreak and memory
pleasure and loss
naivete and scheming
honesty and stealth

1970

Going on

you came with tears
and left with smiles
we stacked your fears
in muddled piles
you came with pain
and left with none
we soothed the hurt
that love had done
life is one
eternal test
you live your life
and do your best

1984

Smilin' John

Texas Lawman

Persistant persuasion

Persistant persuasion 2004

Exploded circumstance #5

Zeroing in on target Crimson Alpha 2000

Time study

November 11, 2011
will be a calenderical phenomenom
and might be printed like this:

11/11/'11 at 11:11+11.11

November eleventh,
two thousand and eleven
at eleven minutes
eleven and 11 hundredths seconds
after eleven o'clock.

Trivial messaging service
1986

City of windows after dark

I tried to explain it 2006

Living in the past . . .

when everything was yesterday
all we did was play and play
a little time to get away
to some familiar golden day
when everyday was standard time
and everything was so sublime
and all our moments superprime
and all our words just seemed to rhyme
we never knew the touch of sorrow
or feared the coming of the morrow
we rode the moment with the flow
and danced beneath the pale moon's glow.

1998

A pasture near Marshall, Texas

The sun and sky are white in Texas in July 1972

Why Pensacola Beach is so lovely.

A nice find when beachcombing 2009

Sitting quietly, doing nothing . . .

i sit and stare
with eyes full closed
and see the lights
of a different cosmos
purple mauve red black and blue
they flash and fly beyond
familiar lights smile by
at speed so interminable
they seem to not exist
yet my colors change and turn
fly in and out
winking past my sight
into darkness
spreading out before me . . .

2004

My dog, Tige

Life was a ball for Tige 2004