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Vs 5

With giant quantum steps I’m overtaking the challenge of balance

My birthright as youngest: in observing, I’d learned

Arms over my head, like a monkey, I manage to steer.

Using whole body torque, I churn with everything I am.

I’m riding my grown sister’s blue bike on my own.

Vs 6

Training wheels not needed, Betty balances herself alright.

My course included: mostly sidewalks, a bit of road.

I’m a lost Wright brother at Kitty Hawk with a sin...

Vs:

The drag coefficient would slow us down, or worse...

Jerk us back and up—bending our course towards kingdom come.

All the while, dancing and dropping, as we went,

A potpourri of odds and ends:

A potpourri of odds and ends:

A potpourri of odds and ends:

Vs:

Baskets full of red and blinking bulbous noses,

Huge shoes, seltzer bottles (flailing and spraying)

Freshly twisted into life-sized balloon animals...

And right along with this profusion of cl...

But we’d be well-advised, on our part,

To pat ‘em down; finger through their index of pranks & antics;

Because one of those clowns might well be packing

A vertically broad-striped big top

Held out there in the broad daylight

Jumbled in amongst his prop-filled frolicking

Jumbled in amongst his prop-filled frolicking

C:

And with lightning hands would flip out same,

Unpack it, tie it off and let it out through

The E-door of our Bozo transport...

Conv...

Ch #2

Get cares out from under foot;

It’s time to unload.

We’ll roll it all out ‘long side the road

As we roll along the side roads.

Rolling and blipping on the seams

As seeming endlessly rolling out as we roll.

Vs

When we stop to rest we might encounter some clowns.

A troupe of bozos—deft at pratfalls;

Who know their way ‘round inside tiny autos

And feel at home in confined, crowded quarters.

Who’r...

Ch #1

Get cares out from under foot;

Bind ‘em up (with) what dispenses off a big ball of rhyme.

It’s time to unload—to air out the soul.

We’ll roll it all out ‘long side the road

As we roll along the side roads.

Rolling and blipping on the seams

As seeming endlessly rolling out as we roll.

Vs

Merrily will we roll; spirits climb up higher as we go...

As we peel off worries choking our hopes

Out for a Drive, No Destination in Mind

Ch #1

Get cares out from under foot;

Bind them up with what dispenses off a big ball of rhyme.

It’s time to unload—to air out the soul.

We’ll roll it all out ‘long side the road

As we roll along the side roads.

Rolling and blipping on the seams

As seeming endlessly rolling out as we roll.

Vs

Pick wishes off your tree out back.

Stuff ‘em into my...

1

There’s a long-ago story we revisit every year.

That presents a still-life image inside our brains.

An image of a world that operated in ways less complicated.

Our imaginations repaint us into a Currier and Ives scene.

Bliss-filled feelings get reincarnated in our hearts.

At that time when One newly born into a stable—

Into the world on a night when the Light came out.

2

It’s a clear star-filled night with snow blanketing rolling hills

That lays out a...

The High Winds Adventurer

With Signals to a Weather-vane

1

Singer from the high cliffs at the ends of the earth,

Sender of whirling tales

Bend them to issue out a far cry;

Make them slap upon and off

The sweat-faced rocks;

Only to follow brooks, chase the geese flocks.

Then to eventuate: somewhere swallowed up

By hungry depths of crevice.

2

My fellow wandering searchers,

Gleaners of lost and fallen squalls:

“Look ha...

Vs 1

One day I just saw her lying on the ground.

I’d fixated on my sisters’ mastery of her workings:

Axles, crank, gears, big wheels…messaged and fashioned

For the solitary purpose (by some unknown genius),

Of manufacturing propulsion for forward motion.

Vs 2

Only 4 years old yet hyped on bennies of “can do” thinking…

Osmosis off upper ranks of Rockwood family roles

Then magnified by my drive to be a bigger boy.

Some voice in my chest spoke out to my he...

Vs

In the beginning, she started spinning,

Seemingly speeding off all on her own. Oh yes.

An unending going was put in her motion

That sprung from a God of abundant knowing.

Vs

Then God He made the man,

Woman, from then on the clan.

Next quest: to gain control

Over wild wonder of this world spinning.

Ch

Pale horseman comes to town

The final curtain inching down

Sin of all men abound<...

Vs

The gray day dawns, I’m all alone,

The massive earth weighs on me.

I’m given to wield beyond my steel;

The way I make wears on me.

Vs

For what I’m known and what I own

Is not the stuff I long for.

Give me my turn to finally learn

Though thoroughly will it burn me.

Ch

Truth run through, truth run through

Truth run through, truth run through me.

When...

Verse

Together we make up a buzzing swarm [hive] of deconstruction

In our claiming “we are right!” simply because “we are Christians!”

As god’s citizens, we are aimed at and hell-bent for heaven.

Does god swell with pride while mollified in the viscosity of our praises?

Or do we drag down our own statuses

And our versioned Jesus along with us?!

Verse

Listen closely and you might detect

An inner context in each of the buzzes

A definite whine of “...

BOW TIE

Verse

You can say with all certainty that clothes make the mannequin

But clothes can’t make the man.

You take somebody like a Jeffrey Dahmer, comb his hair

Sprink on talc. Doll him up and slap a bow tie on him

But doing all that won’t really change a thing.

In the end, you'll NOT want him near your daughter

There are some better off hogtied than bow tied.

Chorus

If you lie down with dogs...

News Is Good

Vs

Out of one comes all species, the galaxies.

He puts them out in the billion varieties.

He sets within us a route to find Him out.

Let Him touch you. Don’t try to hold Him. Oh!

We tend to hang on tightly to the known to the tried,

Go by the rote—the rut we make runs wide,

Runs deep: the glimpse I’ve embraced is mine to keep.

The glimpse I’ve embraced is mine to keep...

Beach Ball Gratitude

1

Tom Hanks in that movie had a substitute one.

He drew a face on it. Called it Wilson (not Rita).

It helped him keep his wits while castaway.

And keep his hopes up and eventually

Get him all the way back to the continent…

Back (sort of) to the life he had before.

2

With a flat and pliable, real beach ball.

You must work it to make it go round.

And (unlike Wilson) must aw...

Night Crossing

You—you’ve been tied up too long

By politics of the men gone wrong.

And you are stuck to the ground you are on

There are those who would shoot you down.

Get up. Get up. Get out. Get away.

The Maker didn’t make it, didn’t mean it this way.

Freedom to move you view as heaven sent…

Cruel and unusual punishment!

You—you’ve been taught to get on

With a life set in nowhere. No...

Dream So Real

Intro

I was caught up for a moment

Or has it been forever I’ve been away?

Now, I get mixed-up in mental weather

Is it dream? Is it real? I cannot say!

I get mixed-up in mental weather

Is it dream? Is it real? I cannot say!

Is it dream? Is it real? I cannot say!

Vs

I must have drifted: I’m dreaming this!

A foreign world and I’m compelled to stay.<...

Out of Bounds Narrated

Intro

Working, trying not to stumble

Till I get me put head side up

Turned right side around

Repeat

Vs

Out of nowhere, I swear, there are times I could tear

Out across the hills, over tops of trees

Without machine, steering in the breeze

Insensibly. On my way to You.

Repeat

Ch

Too soon it’s gone, nowhere to be found

I’m left as if I co...

1

Nearly 20 years on sees a post-apocalyptic Australia

Starring Mel Gibson as Mad Max and he’s driving a

Supercharged, arcade noir road roller—in search of fuel.

And traveling with him, albeit over his head,

We see a different Roto-Gyroman (a Gyro Captain)

Bruce Spence rotoring across the big screen in 1981.

2

He flies low, buzzing a herd of evil desert punkers

He lobs a cocktail, mimes an F-bomb at those motor heads below.

Touching down, we see he’s a lank...

Blade of the Plane

CH

I’ve been told we’ve just so much control.

My long-range sight stays straight so long,

Then makes a bend for the ground.

And I’ve learned about the other side of life;

But the blade of the plane means to wound like a knife.

Vs

I know all about the relative time.

I’ve heard some talk: out of sight, out of mind.

There’s a rumor going around, we’re not long for thi...

Boy Einstein

Vs

Ill placed in space and time

Given to know in the youth of your prime.

Who thought of you as a boy Einstein?

They say you stripped off gears upstairs

While it’s light speed you do (though unawares)

Vs

A flourish of genius then unfolding

As the commonplace became more complacent.

For you, 2 dimensions seemed ripe for some expansions.

Vapid normalcy was vamping inaccuracy.

Shifting, always sifting through the truths and fa...

Episode 30: Pronounced: i.mor’ tal

(Immersive Verse)

Vs

With the infant apprehending

The nomenclature for all of nature

I will be standing with this word.

I will be standing with this word.

As the ever-new infant, the fleeting glint

Do I hold the soul of the word: immortal

Ch

Pronounced: immortal, say it: immortal, say it: immortal.

Be in, beyond me: immortality.

Be in, beyond me: immortality.

Be in, beyond me: immortality.

...

Episode 29: Give Me a Piano

(Immersive Verse)

Vs. 1

Give me a piano...

I’ll give back the black and white

Turned into colors you’ve not heard,

All sorts of stories un-occurred.

Vs. 2

Give me a pencil...

And like a poker I’ll stir

The ember coal in your soul

Or maybe I will use it like Merlin’s wand

And with it I would conjure your lead into gold.

Vs. 3

Give me...

Episode 28: Beyond Science

(Immersive Verse)

Beyond Science

Vs: It’s beyond science. Out of telescopic reach.

Way over heads of those who think and speak and teach.

Vs: It’s beyond science. When not looking you are shown.

No formula no data, but still the truth be known.

Br: Now I’m taken in. I know where facts begin.

Now I’m more like I Am than I’ve ever been.

Ch: It’s beyond it...It’s beyond science.

(Repeat)

Episode 27:

Vs 1

Once I found life was living hard, too hard.

Seeming like things were going: start...restart.

I begin shuffling with the deck and building card on card.

At first struggling to keep my structure from coming apart.

Vs 2

Gravity defied—it named its own design.

Me hoping madly, as if this made it stand.

Implosive thoughts: could these bring it down?

Setting in tiers…balancing up off the ground.

Ch

From the deck of c...

Episode 26: Wright Flyer

(Immersive Verse)

Vs

I’m busied figuring, listing facts that surely will astound;

Crafting secret findings, I’m building to profound.

I’m going to prove I’m not a lunatic, No, I’m not a liar

Make it do what it will

Just like they did the Wright Flyer.

Vs

Straining at every thought I’d ever been taught.

Draining every bit of information from its source.

Staying the course of that which is other tha...

Episode 25: Glinda, Gwendolyn, Gretchen, Someone

(Immersive Verse)

Vs: Remember that scene from the big screen…

Viewed larger-than-life, in Technicolor

When the Good Witch—what was her name?

Glinda, Gwendolyn, Gretchen, someone!

Floated down from the sky in the nick of time.

Burst out from a bubble. Dressed up in brilliance.

And brandishing her wand.

Vs: Like I said, she was Glinda, Gwendolyn, Gretchen, someone…

The bad-assed Good Witch down from the north;

Came to warn Dorothy, wizard’s not al...

Episode 24: Eye of God (Immersive Verse)

Chorus:

Eye of God, eye of God sees me

Eye of God, eye of God reads me

Like a sun burns down the dark around me

Eye of God, warms me then frees me

Verse:

Sometimes I get caught in a tangle of living

I’ll struggle, roll around trying to work it loose alone

Managing finally to get to my knees calling on someone I’ve known

Houdini voodoo can’t hold a cand...

Episode 23: Big, Like Fred Flintstone

(Immersive Verse series)

Vs

The God that I’ve come to know. The One above,

One thing I know of Him: Big Love.

Sometimes it’s like He’s floating right there in front of me.

Pumped up gigantic and hovering free.

Vs

The God that I’ve come to know. The One above,

One thing I know of Him: Big Love.

Sometimes it’s like He’s floating right there in front of me.

Pu...

Episode 22: Roto-gyroman Chapter Two

(Immersive Verse series)

1963: Beach Boys, pre-Beatles

Gyroboy: pre-adolescence

Down in the cellar, one day, discovers mom’s old wringer/washer

Rolled back in a corner. Out of water. Out of order.

Instinctively, he climbs aboard, puts her into light drive!

Gyro: on wringer/washer that day, escaping the basement, takes to the sky!!

The same summer in our backyard, my brother is overheard

Firing ammo from out a clutch of tennis balls

At a strike zo...

Episode 21: Mist of Distance

(Immersive Verse series)

Coming in out of the mist of distance

Accorded by a crowding sky

And by the dancing planets

Purveying Age of Omega: the Maker of everything…

Even so come, Lord Jesus!

Flying forth o’er the eternal span,

Bridging vast, seeming dead space,

A still breath inflates the vacuum

And the elements attend His gale force living wind…

Even so come, Lord Jesus!

As then: dawning of everlasting day

Episode 20: The Thread

(Immersive Verse series)

Vs

Now what was it the old man said?

Through each life runs a significance thread.

Like a spine connecting

Random splashes of events

Making out of the senseless days, a sense.

Vs

This thread sometimes (like a lifeline)

Will run the distance back to

The anchor you had in your youth.

During the special cases, while out of phase

And wondering: what is the use?

Episode 19: Roto-gyroman Chapter One

(Immersive Verse series)

1

Roto-Gyroman started out life a Roto-Gyroboy

The rotary-notion first seeded in the soil of his imagination

From there it quickly sprouted wings for hovering up off the ground

Not fixed wings but ones that spun,

Like blades (a propeller above his head).

Next, a stirring occurred; kept recurring

Whipping around; upending his soul.

Roto-Gyroman started out life a Roto-Gyroboy

The rotary-notion first seeded in the soil of his imagination

Episode 18: Like Life but Better

(Immersive Verse series)

1

A day will come when something like

Life but better issues in

When all the knees will bend

All faces turn to look on Him

2

And the earth will grow greener then

The air drawn in easy then

The living much more lively then

When Jesus comes again

CH

All eyes will look to Him

Voices of everyone will sing

Glad...

Episode 17: Crucifix-Rump

(Immersive Verse series)

VS

Crucifix Rump; the Donald!

“The Terror” “The Terrible”

Think “Terrorist-in-Chief”

Glowing in bold relief

Against any semblance of competence

That…plus Mike Pence.

VS

His pledge is: “Make America Grate!”

Think “bone-on-bone”; “claw-on-slate”.

Think unending agitated state;

Offending below-belt berate;

“Thou fool” trumping the golden rule.

CH

Crucifix-Rump; “The Terrible”

Standing in the middle of 5th Avenue

Lying. Pointing his military at yo...

Episode 16 Truth Is Only True

(Immersive Verse series)

Br

Version truth won’t cut it

Don’t matter how you strut it

Dress it up, sleight-of-hand it.

In the end, just the one commandment!

Ch 1

The truth is only true;

It’s nothing to do with point of view!

Truth is always true

Not soiled or worn through by a bent in you

Ch 2

True is only true;

It will piss on you...

Episode 15: Pumps Hummed, Voices Prayed

(Immersive Verse)

Intro

Can’t see the forest for the trees.

A nation nobbled to its knees.

Our civilization on the skids.

What will we tell the kids?

1

Bullies derided while innocents were hiding.

Teargas sprayed while limbs akimbo, splayed.

Pumps hummed and voices prayed,

Grown men groaned and hearty women wept.

A cacophony drone blended together and leapt

Through the roof, outside into the Epiphany sky.

...

Episode 14: Bigger Voice immersive mix

(Immersive Verse)

Vs

I talk from time to time

Of a thing I can’t explain

Of a thing with which no words will work...

Point out what’s what and why

I could go on without a pause

But until the Bigger Voice

I’m all garbled mumbled noise

Ch

Hear the Bigger Voice like thunder in your heart

Hear the Bigger Voice like wonder in your sky

Hear...

Episode 13: Laughing with the Angels

(Immersive Verse series)

1

Been schooled in building up

A vehicle to move you

It’s a well-tooled shinning machine

Built to outdistance the crowd

It takes a bit to master the controls

But once up and running

It’s hard it’s hard to shut her down

2

About the age of ascension

It deems to do you proud.

And equipped apropos to the Joneses

Will that be eno...

Episode 12: Once Around the Universe

(Immersive Verse series)

Vs: I stumbled on her (literally), a heap

One night in the gutter of the street.

She’s just an old hag wearing 50 lbs. of rags

That gather to her: coral to the reef.

Br: Well, I helped her to her feet.

Her breath assaulted me,

As she began to exclaim

In her way, indiscreet:

Ch: “I’ve been around the universe!

‘One time around the universe,’ He said,

‘To g...