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Often I reached out

Often I came close

Often I pulled back

if there was a way to change

wave a magic wand

command a jeanie

roll a lucky dice

Take me deep

Swallow my pride

Tie me down

Chain me up

Let bleed desire's fire

on freedom's alter

before sacred oaths

dissolve saturn's grip that strangles silken whispers

before YES is breathed

and dies without belief

Like I do

each time I reach out

then pull back

12-25-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1151)

While reviewing the past

the way it was

how we were

such easy thoughts

nothing ever to worry

I realized

I saw

I knew

now was just a cartoon

of what would have been

if we could have

been

now

then

 

12-25-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1990)

Broke the mode

of who I was

now you see

the source of my shadow

the end of my projection

the face behind every mask.

Just before midnight

I began a new day

another era

a beautiful me

alone in flight

over my broken mode.

So the who you see

who looks like me

but acts so free

is but master of ceremony

grand performance

finally on stage

with little left to offer

but

the way I am

again today

in broken mode

once again I am.

 

12-25-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(99D)

So sure

that this was the right direction

everything always

had led to this spot

until we discovered

that we weren't here

and neither was the spot

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12-26-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1342 B)

 

We drew a line

in the sand

but the tides

washed us away

leaving the line

that we drew

dividing us

from being one

to fight the tides

that came

and took us

away

 

 

12-26-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1745 B)

Buried treasures

like hidden talents

leaves us poor

and all alone

with no one

sharing

what we'd have

if hidden treasures

and buried talents

weren't.

 

 

 

12-26-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(99 D)

Shattered illusions

Scattered conclusions

Battered delusions

dissolved by the dawn of reason

Now nothing is left

but created reality

so clear

I can see forever

Hello New Morning

Good Bye every night

12-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1256)

At a final frontier

we conquered fear

to devour

each other

like any

cannibal of love

would

 

 

 

12-26-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(62 D)

The day after

The night before

left me

wanting to wake with you

once again

in the day after

the night before

 

 

 

 

12-26-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1405)

 

This year so quickly went

I went back

to do it once again

just to know

it really had happened.

 

 

12-26-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1565)

I looked in the dictionary

to find meaning

but no explanation

cleared up

my wonderment

of what

this means

You and I

three words in the dictionary

one in my mind.

 

 

12-26-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(512)

I always thought

one more would be enough

and when it is

it will be

But for now

here I am

only one more

from being enough.

 

 

 

12-26-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(288)

 

I was wondering

what will be the last word said

the final line written

the last caress

the final bite

before I die

then I realized

I wouldn't remember anyway

so on I ramble

write

touch

and eat

like any eternal consumer

would

 

 

12-26-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(842)

 

If each thing done

we do as

that to be our masterpiece

then our life

that will be

 

 

 

 

 

12-26-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(349 A)

 

Again

my friend

the end

does send

this trend

again

ABOUT FACE

CHANGE DIRECTION

whisper loudly

the blind feel what we don't see

the deaf see what we don't hear

the lonely know every face in the crowd

but at the end

I'll still be your friend

 

 

12-26-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(6 B)

 

'Lucky me'

said the tree

'I will never be

lost on a freeway

short on what to say

found shopping

seen hopping

lucky me

lucky me

said the tree

 

 

 

12-26-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(956 D)

All the advice ever asked

never led anyone to the stars

all the questions pursued

never changed the unexpected

all the theories so explained

never

ever

and it will still all be

the same

again tomorrow

 

 

12-26-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(12)

 

'Oh No! Oh No!'

said the tree

and all the people stopped

to question a tree

that would talk

but never more

did that tree say

And that is how

the religion of the tree began

and why everyone

chants

'Oh No! Oh No!'

 

 

 

12-26-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1155 B)

All our possessions

are but props

to insulate our space

before we became to know

that we never

needed them anyway.

 

 

 

 

 

12-27-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(12 B)

Cold!

Only the physical body knows

take away the cold

I'm still here

take away my body

the cold remains

if I could

I would be

a naked thought sitting on an arctic flow

and diving into frozen illusion tundra

I'd swim in the cold

and pretend my body was with me

like I do now

in this cold world

I've been given to wander.

 

 

 

12-27-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(120)

As fragile as each new moment is

the strength to proceed into in

is but BELIEF

given wings

to give flight

when needed to be.

 

 

 

 

 

12-27-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(61 D a)

Nature brought forth humans

because

dinosaurs couldn't paint

amoebas wouldn't carry a tune

apes refused to write poetry

and there was no one to understand this.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12-27-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1002 B)

The reason we do everything

done

we did

is to look at it at the end

to see if

we

did

it correctly

since the beginning.

 

 

 

 

12-27-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1467 A)

Like a poem

going no where

a song

without a tune

seeds planted in the desert

and love with no dawn

life is

without direction.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12-27-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(908 B)

We had so many backup plans

that we crashed

backing up

never seeing

where we were going.

 

 

 

 

 

 

12-27-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1769)

While looking for the perfect gift

silence screamed at me

'GIVE NOTHING

BECAUSE THAT IS ALL

WE SHALL HAVE AT THE END'

and now

we could get use to

getting it early.

 

 

 

 

12-28-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1983)

I never wanted to be

anything more

than everything

that you are

I never wanted to be white

or so poor

so unknown

I'm not even a part of history's pathways

but if there weren't shadows like me

there would never be

stars like you.

 

 

12-28-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell NeuageSA (571 B)

The last verse

was in your purse

all you had to do

was open and see

but you shot through

and left me free

Yet always the waves

reach the horizon

poems seldom rhyme

nature does not understand humans

and the last verse

was in your purse

lost with my heart

amongst all the things

you carry

wherever you fly.

 

 

 

12-29-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1427)

If I said good night

would that change the orbit of the sun

make the collide with Mars

or a garden snail learn to run

probably not probably not

because within preconceived ideas

giraffes don't become butterflies

love never dies

and I don't hear you

saying good night to me.

 

12-30-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(380)

We don't live in troubled times

troubled times live in us

swallow butterflies

eat rainbows

drink stars

DIGESTED CHANGE

takes away

troubled times.

 

12-30-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1743)

I keep thinking it's a different day

another life

who opened the windows

and let in

these times

this place

that reflection

which could never be

anything more

than a different day

another life.

 

 

Often I reached out

Often I came close

Often I pulled back

if there was a way to change

wave a magic wand

command a jeanie

roll a lucky dice

Take me deep

Swallow my pride

Tie me down

Chain me up

Let bleed desire's fire

on freedom's alter

before sacred oaths

dissolve saturn's grip that strangles silken whispers

before YES is breathed

and dies without belief

Like I do

each time I reach out

then pull back

12-25-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1151)

While reviewing the past

the way it was

how we were

such easy thoughts

nothing ever to worry

I realized

I saw

I knew

now was just a cartoon

of what would have been

if we could have

been

now

then

 

12-25-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1990)

Broke the mode

of who I was

now you see

the source of my shadow

the end of my projection

the face behind every mask.

Just before midnight

I began a new day

another era

a beautiful me

alone in flight

over my broken mode.

So the who you see

who looks like me

but acts so free

is but master of ceremony

grand performance

finally on stage

with little left to offer

but

the way I am

again today

in broken mode

once again I am.

 

12-25-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(99D)

So sure

that this was the right direction

everything always

had led to this spot

until we discovered

that we weren't here

and neither was the spot

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12-26-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1342 B)

 

We drew a line

in the sand

but the tides

washed us away

leaving the line

that we drew

dividing us

from being one

to fight the tides

that came

and took us

away

 

 

12-26-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1745 B)

Buried treasures

like hidden talents

leaves us poor

and all alone

with no one

sharing

what we'd have

if hidden treasures

and buried talents

weren't.

 

 

 

12-26-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(99 D)

Shattered illusions

Scattered conclusions

Battered delusions

dissolved by the dawn of reason

Now nothing is left

but created reality

so clear

I can see forever

Hello New Morning

Good Bye every night

12-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1256)

At a final frontier

we conquered fear

to devour

each other

like any

cannibal of love

would

 

 

 

12-26-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(62 D)

The day after

The night before

left me

wanting to wake with you

once again

in the day after

the night before

 

 

 

 

12-26-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1405)

 

This year so quickly went

I went back

to do it once again

just to know

it really had happened.

 

 

12-26-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1565)

I looked in the dictionary

to find meaning

but no explanation

cleared up

my wonderment

of what

this means

You and I

three words in the dictionary

one in my mind.

 

 

12-26-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(512)

I always thought

one more would be enough

and when it is

it will be

But for now

here I am

only one more

from being enough.

 

 

 

12-26-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(288)

 

I was wondering

what will be the last word said

the final line written

the last caress

the final bite

before I die

then I realized

I wouldn't remember anyway

so on I ramble

write

touch

and eat

like any eternal consumer

would

 

 

12-26-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(842)

 

If each thing done

we do as

that to be our masterpiece

then our life

that will be

 

 

 

 

 

12-26-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(349 A)

 

Again

my friend

the end

does send

this trend

again

ABOUT FACE

CHANGE DIRECTION

whisper loudly

the blind feel what we don't see

the deaf see what we don't hear

the lonely know every face in the crowd

but at the end

I'll still be your friend

 

 

12-26-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(6 B)

 

'Lucky me'

said the tree

'I will never be

lost on a freeway

short on what to say

found shopping

seen hopping

lucky me

lucky me

said the tree

 

 

 

12-26-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(956 D)

All the advice ever asked

never led anyone to the stars

all the questions pursued

never changed the unexpected

all the theories so explained

never

ever

and it will still all be

the same

again tomorrow

 

 

12-26-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(12)

 

'Oh No! Oh No!'

said the tree

and all the people stopped

to question a tree

that would talk

but never more

did that tree say

And that is how

the religion of the tree began

and why everyone

chants

'Oh No! Oh No!'

 

 

 

12-26-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1155 B)

All our possessions

are but props

to insulate our space

before we became to know

that we never

needed them anyway.

 

 

 

 

 

12-27-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(12 B)

Cold!

Only the physical body knows

take away the cold

I'm still here

take away my body

the cold remains

if I could

I would be

a naked thought sitting on an arctic flow

and diving into frozen illusion tundra

I'd swim in the cold

and pretend my body was with me

like I do now

in this cold world

I've been given to wander.

 

 

 

12-27-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(120)

As fragile as each new moment is

the strength to proceed into in

is but BELIEF

given wings

to give flight

when needed to be.

 

 

 

 

 

12-27-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(61 D a)

Nature brought forth humans

because

dinosaurs couldn't paint

amoebas wouldn't carry a tune

apes refused to write poetry

and there was no one to understand this.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12-27-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1002 B)

The reason we do everything

done

we did

is to look at it at the end

to see if

we

did

it correctly

since the beginning.

 

 

 

 

12-27-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1467 A)

Like a poem

going no where

a song

without a tune

seeds planted in the desert

and love with no dawn

life is

without direction.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12-27-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(908 B)

We had so many backup plans

that we crashed

backing up

never seeing

where we were going.

 

 

 

 

 

 

12-27-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1769)

While looking for the perfect gift

silence screamed at me

'GIVE NOTHING

BECAUSE THAT IS ALL

WE SHALL HAVE AT THE END'

and now

we could get use to

getting it early.

 

 

 

 

12-28-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1983)

I never wanted to be

anything more

than everything

that you are

I never wanted to be white

or so poor

so unknown

I'm not even a part of history's pathways

but if there weren't shadows like me

there would never be

stars like you.

 

 

12-28-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell NeuageSA (571 B)

The last verse

was in your purse

all you had to do

was open and see

but you shot through

and left me free

Yet always the waves

reach the horizon

poems seldom rhyme

nature does not understand humans

and the last verse

was in your purse

lost with my heart

amongst all the things

you carry

wherever you fly.

 

 

 

12-29-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1427)

If I said good night

would that change the orbit of the sun

make the collide with Mars

or a garden snail learn to run

probably not probably not

because within preconceived ideas

giraffes don't become butterflies

love never dies

and I don't hear you

saying good night to me.

 

12-30-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(380)

We don't live in troubled times

troubled times live in us

swallow butterflies

eat rainbows

drink stars

DIGESTED CHANGE

takes away

troubled times.

 

12-30-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1743)

I keep thinking it's a different day

another life

who opened the windows

and let in

these times

this place

that reflection

which could never be

anything more

than a different day

another life.

 

 

12-30-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(485 B)

Woken highway

reached out

I held on

through the deserts

ofpver rivers

into mountains

This highway

would not listen to my pleas to stop

This highway

had heard desperate hooves

as horses escaped in the 1800s

had see Porches and Harleys

had felt pain

joy

but never aloneness

like I so often have

This highway

took me to this realm

I can not escape

my family calls it madness

my doctor - a genetic flaw

my psychic said I was born to the highway

I its slave

and it will be this highway

at the end of the tunnel

where beings of light

will throw me back

and tell me to follow the highway

until I know where it's headed

(like if I would anyway - ever)

Now I'm quite use to this highway which keeps going

into other dimensions

like I do

each time I think of the road once traveled

the road futures will travel

This highway never ending.

12-31-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell NeuageSA. (2055)

Morning swallowed

my dreams

made me hungry

to see if

they'd come true

like everything else

I believe in

does

 

 

 

5-1-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(978)

 

 

 

At the beginning

when all there was

was already there

waiting to be put together

like you and me

and the galaxies

too

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5-1-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(64)

I was so sleepy

I slept standing up

while the world

lay on its side

watching

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5-1-93 (838)

the reason

we are here

is because dawn

doesn't want to

come alone

 

 

5-1-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1430)

like steps through history

or a wander through dreams

today's beliefs,efs

grew out of yesterday's crumbled ideologies

for tomorrow's

individual freedom

finally won

to take wings

never to land again

 

 

 

 

 

5-1-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(916)

I learned shorthand

speed reading

computerization

experienced Paris in a day

read 'Readers Digest'

condensed pasteurized homogenized great novels

and watched history of civilization

but time stood still

when your touch

became so

involved

 

 

5-1-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(492)

I concentrated so hard

on this moment

that yesterday and tomorrow disappeared

now

like neapolitan ice cream

melted

contains the former and the latter

in a future past tense

that has no ease

of

explanation

in this moment

 

5-1-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(316 C)

There is little difference

between you and me

except that I am conscious

of the little difference

(even calling them my own)

and you see them

being but variations

of your greater self

 

5-1-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1430 D)

This life goes so fast

that when I die

I will need

a thousand years

to review all that happened

in this life

 

 

 

 

5-1-93 (1508)

The continuous pouring out

of creativity

fueled forever's freedom's

perceptual persuasion's performance

reflected perfectly

for me

to

know

 

 

 

5-1-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1394)

I wouldn't want to live on Venus

because there are no trees

nor on Mars with its lack of flowers

and there is no chocolate on Jupiter

or ice cream on Mercury

while on earth

everything I want

is between the sea

the trees

and the shopping mall.

 

 

 

 

 

5-1-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(858)

If I knew how to write

a poem

I would

if I knew how to sing

I would

If I could dance, take photos

paint or tell your future

I would

But all I can do

is build you a castle

in the sand

and offer it to you

before the sea

take it from me

 

5-1-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(376)

the reason

we don't have wings

is because we don't have to fly north

for the winter

But can stay all winter-warm

wrapped in each other's

warmth

 

 

5-1-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(946)

The reason

we keep coming to earth

is to learn to stop dying

but we keep

getting into the Plato trap

of this is it

why keep going

 

 

 

5-5-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(946 C)

Not every time

is everything

going to be

the way it is

at other times

But instead

like any spinning top everything gets a chance\

to be close at hand

again

if we see

 

 

5-5-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1130 C)

We rush through life

like we're in a hurry

to get to the end

not knowing what it is

except that

it will be different

than the rush through

this life is

 

 

 

5-593 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1768)

I write

for the same reasons

a bird flies

far from an oil slick

a whale stays away

from a stream

and buffaloes avoid mountains

I write only

to find these answers

that everyone else

already knows

 

 

 

 

 

5-5-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(858)

As if this moment could be preserved:

placed in a safe-deposit box, frozen in space, cloned, kept intact

maybe even used again

reincarnated, transmigrated, resuscitated,

recycled moments

in another reality

a paralleling toyed universe

where earth-used moments

are packaged and sold in day-fill programmes

Drive-thru-take-away-moment-services

'Yes I will take three moments to go

two yesterdays and one tomorrow'

And I reach out to take a hold of a yesterday

the moment we said good bye

in hopes of renaming it and bringing it back to life

only to discover the moment I wanted returned

had been used by a patriot in an alternative drifting energy force

and was no longer mine

to have again

but only to observe

in mutational memory cells

reflecting changing interpretation of

the way it once was

11-28-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(61 C)

Before: After was known

When storms were calm

Emotions describable

And colour bland

Answers were easy

But meaning wasn't.

 

 

 

 

11-29-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(76)

Inside wholeness

separation is unknown

like the splitting of an atom

is unknown

inside wholeness

But the results

are the same

 

 

 

11-29-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(576)

Curtains drawn

over windows of time

left imagination

without a view

like an unlit night

shows what can not be seen

when all that is revealed

is nothing at all

 

11-29-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(136 B)

In the morning

I looked forward to

meeting the new me

that I heard about

in a dream

But the new me

stayed in the dream

while mirror showed

the same snapshot

it had shown

every other morning

fuzzy wakefulness

far from any dream thought possible

 

 

11-30-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(582)

While sharing one another

with each other

We traded lives

and worked on correcting

all the faults we had

perceived in each other

before we had traded lives

then we traded back

only to die laughing

at what we had created

Perhaps next time

we'll just accept and not modify

live and not die

and

share and not trade

 

 

 

 

11-30-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1993)

While making way

for new experiences

the past was stored away

in the attic

where a spider

web-woven

devoured the past

and the present

ran naked

knowing such a fate

could be escaped

if experiences

no longer were stored

away

 

 

11-29-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1985)

Without risk

a billion galaxies

would have not begun to dance

with questions

a billion suns

in our galaxy

would have not take a first deep breath

without nature

chaos would have no joy

without you

a billion cells in my life

will lose their spark.

 

21-1-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(2051)

Close to where I want to be

But never there

like a future

reachable

not holdable

hoped for

not known

seeable

But only in a mist

before form

covers now

in the never to be

so in today once again

as always

all is within reach

and parts even attainable

but never all

never all

never all

 

12-1-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(118 B)

The release

freed me:

What I once wanted

no longer needed

flew forth

like love does

once it has wings

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12-1-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1479)

Fresh start

reinvented me

today is the reincarnation of yesterday

But I'm not

Reinvented me

is all I can see.

 

 

 

 

12-1-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(231 B)

 

yy

Without sounding

too philosophical

spiritual

down-to-earth

metaphysical

or psychological

I need you

like any farmer

the rain

would

 

 

 

 

12-2-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(2051 B)

I thought nature

was blushing

from listening to me

speak about you

But it was dawn

that was making nature come

with such colour

not my description of you

 

 

12-2-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(674)

sky cleared

darkened thoughts

blocking dawn

so morning could see

my wish had come true

you and I free of

darkened thoughts

 

 

 

 

 

12-2-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1290)

 

Just when I understood

how the final piece fitted

when nature cheered

exploration showed meaning

changes laughed in reason

I awoke

to see clouds disperse

love leap forward

success call my name

 

 

 

12-3-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(873 B)

I use to think

I was the luckiest person

on earth

to be with you

now I realize

you're the lucky one

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12-3-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(742)

 

 

 

I didn't notice

a difference between

day and night

until you pointed out

that is how

we are

shooting stars

gone too far

passing midnight

passing noon

we'll know soon

which we're like

which we're not

but sameness

is left out doors

somewhere between

day and night

 

 

 

12-3-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(321 B)

 

 

I just thought we could stop

along the coast of our first touch

atop the mountain of desire first conquered

past our first laugh over a whispering horizon

But I just got a message from the dawn

saying memory is better than promise

promise is better than forever

forever is better than forever

and in circles

the merry-go-round never strays

like my feelings for you

always changing

never ceasing

always finding

never seeking

always one

you're never close

because I'm always there

just around a corner

in the back of your memory

 

 

12-3-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(480)

 

I wanted to be a legend

a whisper amongst time's shadows

spoken about in parliament

dreamt of in alleys

cried over

in Delphi often

number one on MTV

a source of multiple orgasm\inner space colonization\political revolution

the dawn at road's end

And I was

somewhere in time

 

 

 

12-3-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(778)

I wanted to be safe

so I gave you a single rose

instead of promising the world

a smile

rather than tomorrow too

a light touch

that could never the place

of all I wanted to give

beyond a single rose

 

 

12-3-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(782 D)

 

I wanted too much

such a short time

to try it all

have a taste

devour more than before

to go every direction at once

But I did

so excuse the way I am

because I wanted too much

and it all I did

too

 

12-3-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(791 A)

I tried to shake away

shadow's memories

fallen beliefs

and dusty mirages

of when you were

an oasis to me

but trials of now

lost in forests of good byes

took me to this corner

this crossroad

this space

where I remember everything

no matter how much

I try to strike away

memory will cast me forever

in the starring role

I had

once with you

 

 

12-3-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(720 D)

The cross of reason

tossed experience into now

dreams so real now weren't

feelings once felt dissipated

wishes just another book read

(the seven seas just another pool swam)

The cross of reason

forever there

 

 

 

 

 

12-3-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1402 B)

The only reason

nature has let us

get this far

is because it needs

someone to water the flowers

when the rain

doesn't flow

like we do

when together

the dawn we touch

 

 

 

12-3-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1445)

I sang the same line

over so many times

to make it rhyme

You were following a star

I followed morning

crossed visions left me alone

if only I knew the tone

take me

the sea

I will sail forever

fallen forgotten endeavour

leave me this moment free

for all I can see

is the remainder of me

 

 

 

12-4-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(614 B)

While fading into you

I grabbed on to

a final portion of me

like forever

takes a final glimpse of

the moment

 

 

 

 

12-4-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1975)

 

As difficult as the moment appears

it is nothing

compared with

a tree from a seed

a president from a collision of sperm and egg

millions of dollars from six numbers in the lottery

another moment with you

 

12-4-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(61 C)

 

why this is this way

mist rises

rain falls

winter froze

you touch

I melt

this way it is

tomorrow too

it will be

 

 

 

12-4-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(2033)

Time came

when window

showed little more

than thought cleared sky

echoes whispered

shades of colours

If I knew the way

would have smelt like

a spring morning

when we believed

winter would never return

 

 

 

12-4-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1567)

 

"HOLD THE MEMORY!"

I yelled

this isn't all

that can be done

before next moment new packages now into

'remember when?'

and pouring forth

more than

better than

I watch the moment explode

shooting forth

galactic droplets

of new moments

each carrying

more than

better than

within its form

 

 

12-5-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(282)

Focusing on you

blurred the surroundings

Your life

nature's victory

Your senses

future's promise

heightened awareness

centred on you

erased everything else

the game in front slipped away

yesterday's storm blew out to sea

questions became irrelevant

answers dissolved

while focusing on you

everything became blurred

except for you

 

 

 

 

12-4-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(217 B)

Still trying to say

what should be so easy

to explain

how forests

laugh in rain

like I do in you

how the universe

took 15 billion years

to bring forth

mobile phones

and only 30 years

you

how your touch

makes me

feel like

a christmas tree

waiting to be

decorated

 

 

12-4-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1352 D)

 

 

I reached through time

to grab the bits

I wanted tomorrow to be made of

like any creator would

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12-4-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(602 B)

I planted an acorn seed

and heard celery grow

in its place

I put my yacht out to sea

but woke in the bath tub

with a toy boat instead

the weather report said

the sun would shine

over my tropical island today

but i had to shovel through

four feet of snow

to get to my papaya plantation

You said you would stay with me forever

and we haven't met yet

I swam

when I should have flown

cried instead of laughed

chased cars

dogs were driving

stood naked

in a crowded subway

And told secrets on Oprah's show

otherwise

everything seems quite normal

 

 

12-5-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(602)

It was funny the way

we danced

along the shore

in the moonlight

you sang of rainbows

when no storm was in sight

I collected shells

in the night

looking for pearls

looking for love

looking for what I'd wake with

if we ever stopped dancing

long enough to dream

of the moment

like anyone having

a near-love experience

would

 

 

12-5-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(735 D)

In clashing colours

we found every difference

but a taste

of each experience

that was free

in clashing colours

 

 

 

 

12-5-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(558 C)

 

 

Rushed through

all we could have

Leaping brushed-fired passions

devoured us

you opened

I gave

you cried

I whispered

you held on

I let go

filling you with every man's desire

ACCUMULATED EVOLUTIONARY WANT

and in the moment

all creation held her breath

wondering if such fulfillment

was possible

as we rushed through

all we could have

in one final release

that is now

forever

imprinted on my consciousness

a mutating cell in all future creation.

 

 

 

12-5-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1232)

 

I waited for the final song

one last curtain call

a good bye kiss

and a passing caress

You were to become a star

here on earth

or in the sky

I never knew which

But I knew

as the applause faded

and your whispers rang in my ears

that what I wanted

what you gave

what I took

was just a borrow

an overdue loan

from this stage

just a further experience

and without saying thank you

too many times

I salute you

and ask for nothing more

but an encore

before this stage

dissolves into

some future production

 

12-5-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(771 B)

If nature

changed her mind

as often as I do

there'd be blizzards in Pago Pago

spring in the winter

the sun would stop then go the opposite direction

cows would give eggs on Tuesdays

flowers on Friday

and there'd be one of me for each day of the week

 

 

 

 

12-7-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage( 400 B)

 

Like when no one notices

what is

Is the best performance possible

while the rain washes away

the stage

and in suspended thought

birds migrate

with little notice

of what is

is the best performance

possible.

 

 

 

 

12-7-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(922)

 

 

Everyone stood in line

waiting to be selected

like a best thought of the day

waits to be realized

Friday waits Thursday to end

a rose waits to be given

and I wait for you to see

I have selected you

like I hope you have me

 

 

12-7-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(188)

 

 

 

too much junk mail

too many sensational headlines

and too few peaceful times

left me looking for a comfortable seat

in the midst of a tornado

just to watch

not be changed

 

 

12-7-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1617)

 

 

I was ready

times weren't

I was there

space wasn't

I wanted you

you didn't know

time and space

didn't exist

 

 

 

 

12-7-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(834)

One step from the finish

I realized

I was in the wrong race

But it was o.k.

because I was only one step away

from starting a new one

this time correctly run

 

 

 

 

 

12-7-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1162)

 

 

I made

a hundred

photocopies

of the moment

I met you

and

hand them out

to myself

each time

the moment

tries

to

slip

away

 

 

12-13-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(553 B)

 

Here we are

funny to say

flowers laugh

rain screams

dove for evening meal

but

though

maybe

it is possible

funny to say

we never knew

that it truly

is this way

 

 

12-7-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(276)

 

I was just getting warmed up

decades of experience

(lay like tumbled children's blocks)

picked up and used again

to make a bridge

recycled experiences

led me to be free once again

like before blocks of life

began to tumble

 

 

12-7-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(628)

each moment chosen

like ripen fruit

a perfect gift

each magical touch

the taste of

new fallen snow

and the glow of a first touch

is nothing but perfect

in each moment chosen

 

 

12-13-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(169 B)

Surprised by the movement

through space

of what I wanted

as it pushed aside

all resistance

and made room in chaos

for all

I wanted

 

 

12-13-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1365 B)

Each time I turn around

facing direction's perspective

laughs like time

in the rain

does

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12-13-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(198)

 

On the back of yesterday

I wrote what happened

How the morning exploded

day gave meaning

freedom flew

and so did I

on the back of yesterday

I never wished for now

to be so far away

from then

and remembered so well

 

 

 

 

12-13-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1165 B)

 

 

 

 

Children are not

the souvenirs of love

but travelling

theme parks

they are

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12-14-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(116)

 

 

 

 

 

There were so many choices

I fell asleep

and dreamt each one

complete

that is why

I see rainbows

when others see clouds

And so should we.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12-14-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1489)

If every direction traveled

arrived at the perfect destination

Discovery forever

would stand behind

closed doors

laughing at us

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12-14-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(349)

 

A close score

with little time left

all the players

waited in evening's fading

light

as the stars began to shine

to make complete every game

that no longer

needs morning to show

winners

like we do

each time we touch

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12-15-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(6)

 

I don't like art

I don't like writing

that is why I drew a poem

in the sky

just to watch it

disappear

like I do

each time I read

what I write.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12-16-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(330)

Like any good audience

we are still waiting for

the punch line

2000 years later

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12-17-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(908)

 

 

In mistaken identities

trees sprout wings

birds grow roots

and gravity tossed us into space

like love

with no way

to keep us down to earth

 

 

 

 

 

12-17-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(565 B)

 

Morning filled

night before

breeze returned

with your scents

your desire

still fulfilling

bringing now

with

your return

 

 

 

 

12-22-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(976)

 

If only images

were found

to be real

I would become lost

in the image of you

 

 

 

 

 

12-22-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(405 B)

 

 

I thought it was the end of the world

when the changes began.

As if time really cared

or the sky would disappear

or elephants would stop dancing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12-22-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(66 B)

With no time left

I asked to spend forever with you

With no space

I asked

if there was room for me

In the frozen wastelands

I looked for a tropical taste of you.

 

 

 

12-22-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(2043)

 

 

I have given you

all the great lines

but we have yet

to dance

I have shown all the possibilities

you have yet to show any

I have visited the stars

you are still here

and the point is

we never go

beyond our own

perspective

 

 

12-22-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(462)

While focusing on you

I lost sight

of everything else

that is why

I'm wet

from walking into the sea

thinking I was walking

into you

That is why

I'm bleeding

from cutting myself in two

on a mirror

I was hanging

thinking it was you

That is how

I became lost

thinking I had found you

focusing too

on me.

 

12-22-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1977)

 

Brandy coloured morning

revealed

last night

never ending

 

 

 

 

12-22-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(99 D)

 

 

Something to reach for like dawn

at the horizon

rain

above clouds

and love

before doubt

something to reach for

never having

 

 

 

 

 

 

12-22-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1312)

We touched the stars

before we were ready

NOW

without oxygen

without bodies

without life

WE search

how to come back down-to-earth

once again

 

 

 

 

12-22-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1835)

It's o.k. to take a break

waste some time

take a nap

go for a walk

fondle

the sun is expected

to shine

for a few billion

more years

and so can we

or at least

some part of

us

 

5-7-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(732)

We are always

While pushing past the limits once believed

I tossed away bewilderment with

'I don't think it is possible'

touching space and understanding it too

so that all achievments until now

were nothing more

than cave paintings

just some muddled hieroglyphics

like old age without reason

But that's all behind

back in humanity's nursery book stage

Freedom is the real frontier

with fear of guilt and misplaced beliefs

being the savage native

hiding in the psychic

waiting to attack free thinking

with primitive weapons

of guilt, fear, and mysticism

But it is too late

freedom to know will conquer

and push the only true-value frontier open

so every universe

without secret

is left bare

to enter

and have

 

 

4/9/93 Good Friday Poem - Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1810 C)

In change

dreams come awake

in sameness

dreams go to sleep.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4-12-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(558)

 

Desire is the slave

of freedom

 

 

 

 

 

4-13-92 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(155 b)

 

if everyone knew

what I know now

holy cow

I'd be out the door

for ever more

that's for sure

But I'm not

so here I am

waiting for more

outside your door

 

 

 

 

 

 

4-14-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(350)

 

 

In chosen images

beliefs reveal

what is real

like this moment does

rising over a new horizon

in unsettled times

where seas

pierce clouded evenings

tranquil message

of what is believed,

and in tomorrow like again today

the future's past

reveals secret's timely wish's desire

held like forever's reflection in today

again found to be

everything worth waiting for

so as to say

yes it was as real

as ever it was meant to be.

 

 

 

4-16-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(558)

In ancient thought

beyond reason's pillars

everyone came together

to predict the future

in Diana's shower

But they turned on the video

and forgot to leave behind

much more

than our ancient interpretation

in times

that dispels

all

 

 

(554)

 

Sun doesn't see

moon doesn't rise

But we do

each time

we watch

where we're going

somewhere beyond

destiny's favorite thought

 

 

 

 

4-16-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1362)

 

The past

paints

tomorrow

But if we let go of it

tomorrow

will have

no added colour

to make it complete

(and memories only sleep)

 

 

 

 

'93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1424)

This moment

is so close to perfect

that to make it so now

is

no more

than a simple

rearrangement of the way it is

with open door

as an invitation

for nature

to join

in too

 

 

 

 

'93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1498 C)

This life

like so many before

is but a shadow

of our selves

travelling at the speed of laughter

through the universe

on our way

to a fish and chip shop

the only planet

that sells them

 

 

 

 

 

 

4-18-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1497 B)

 

 

THE BIG BANG

WAS

JUST

A WHIMPER

COMPARED TO

WHEN WE MET

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4-18-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1388)

 

I awoke before time began

before music

before thought

before silence erupted

into the beginning of now

with all the followers

still waiting to awake

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4-18-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(298)

 

FORGOTTEN

FREEDOMS

FOUND

FROZEN

FAVOUR

FOREVER

FREE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(228)

 

How good we are tomorrow

depends on how bad

we are today

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4-18-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(284)

The flower of youth

blossomed

while I looked

the other way

now in memory

I return

to when my name

was the one called

in morning's sleepless desire

 

 

 

 

4-18-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1402)

 

Forgetfulness of now

took me back to when

I remember you

whispering to me

'never forget this moment

and it will last forever

somewhere in mind' Now I am a forgotten foreigner

forevermore

full of

forgetfulness

of now

 

 

 

4-18-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(228)

For every gate

that opens

a crowd cheers

I can't see

but I hear

as the melody of strangers

asking for change

like any weekend weather person would

 

 

 

 

 

9-18-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(218 B)

The only predictable future

we well

ever experience

is when we do

what we do

of what we chose to do

 

 

 

4-19-93 (936 B)

I couldn't

t wait

so I rushed toward

the open door...

only realizing there was no floor

on the other side

after my free-fall had begun

lucky for me

I carry a parachute everywhere

for just such an emergency

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4-12-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(317 A)

In broken images

and meaningless dreams

the future is drafted

and superglued into place

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4-19-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(554)

While breaking shackles off of

who we perceived we were to each other

we fell in love

with who we would have been

if broken shackles long ago

had shown us now - then

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11-1-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1809 C)

While waiting for a new leader

humanity put on clean wool socks

and though it is true

everyone was as lost as ever

we all had warm feet

that didn't smell

and with over five billion people

that is what is important.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4-19-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1814 B)

Platonistic specialization

almost stopped love's integrating freedom

from taking flight

out of the mystic plagued night

that descended so long ago

but now nears its end

as we break the 2000 year old shackles

off of the slaves

we have been

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4-9-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1204)Until just a moment ago

 

 

everything made sense

now

I will have to

start all over again

so I say it was logical

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4-19-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1574 B)

In the silence of my memory

you whispered a song

we once danced too

under a spring filled song

in Golden Gate Park in 1967

And in closed eyes

I now disappear

into your long ago promise

'You'll never need anyone else but me'

But the ticking of my clock

the barking of the dog

my children yelling for dinner

makes me open my eyes

remembering

I hadn't thought of you

for at least 20 years

until now.

 

 

 

4-18-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(649 C)

I am moving to Saturn

where there is more room

more moons

it's a heavy place

the days are longer

and it takes 28 years to equal one year

so now

I can finally get all those things done

I always said I would

and go multi-moon gazing

with the ones I love

 

 

 

 

 

4-19-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(292)

today is better than yesterday

tomorrow will be worse

than last Friday

But next Tuesday

will make yesterday look sad

so there!

 

 

 

 

4-19-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1531 B)

Childhood spent

childhood saved

childhood's woven parts

superglued together to remember

the moment each piece was a part of something bigger

that went broom broom click click

tick tick like a clock

(that measured the passing days of childhood)

Children never grow old

they just sprout wings and fly away

returning now and then

to look at how everything

once was together

once was a part of a movement

once was a part of everything that really mattered

until

like sections of life they were reassembled

in a mosaic of memory

just abbreviations of symbolic wholes

where one piece represents

what was played with for weeks at a time

in the labyrinth of childhood

and now is but a collage

on one of the walls of my life.

 

4-19-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(106)

they've taken away

the walls

left me

with no boundaries

no blocked views

no hiding place

I roll up into a ball

and roll out into the open space

I never knew existed

until they took away my walls

 

 

 

 

4-20-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1465 B)

While stretching logic

like some do the truth

I noticed an empty explanation

in the corner of a theory that could have unified it all

so now I am proud to present

the X factor that will unify all of existence

that holds it all together

that was there at the Big Bang

and will be there at the Big Crunch

and the little nibbles afterwards

and wait for it

it is laughter

that holds it all together

Because it is true (I was there)

the beginning of this present universe

started with a sneeze in the middle of a laugh

and all the galaxies

are just droplets from that sneeze

 

4-20-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1811 B)

 

 

 

the meaning of aloha

(hello - goodbye)

changed when you never returned

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4-20-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1410)

 

It is better

to seek agreement with ourselves

than solicit it from someone else

don't you agree?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4-20-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(682)

I liked last month so much

I didn't change the calendar

and that made me so happy

I decided to change it back

all the way to when we met

twenty years ago

when I was only a day younger

than I am now

according to my calendar

 

 

 

4-20-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(496)

I talk fast

because I have so much to say

while others listen slowly

so they don't have to hear it all

but that's o.k.

Because the words in between

seldom have much meaning

anyway

 

 

4-20-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(662 B)

...whether is is better

to be creative and poor

or rich and uncreative

I will know once I become rich

after I find

the most creative way to do it

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4-20-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1809 A)

While putting things in order

I noticed how random

the galaxies were tossed about

and thought if they can do that

so can I and that is why\

everything looks so untidy

 

 

 

 

4-20-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1810 D)

I wanted to believe

what I used to

but reality

swept away the myths

But I remember the stories

and tell them to my children

who never believed them

to begin with

 

 

 

 

 

 

4-23-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(782 B)

There are over 5 billion people on the planet

and only one in this space

at this time in history

with these thoughts

and it will never occur again

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4-21-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1429 B)

I thought it was

sounds of waves crashing upon the shore

waking me from sleep

But it was just my stomach

telling me to forget

my diet

and eat a snack

in rhythm to waves upon the shore

 

 

 

 

 

4-23-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(668)

All the strategy

of all the people of all time

can't stop the rising sun

or love, death, taxes, birth

all the philosophies, myths, beliefs

have not changed the colour of the sky

the size of a mountain

or anything much of all

which gives little meaning

to why

ham on rhyme

is better than tofu on sprouts

 

 

 

8-23-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(14 B)

It was as if

you knew all along

and had to wait

all these years

for me to realize

we have been together

in one form or another

since the beginning

 

 

 

 

4-24-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(735 B)

Even with

all the distraction

of these times

I managed

to deliver fax-free

in person

all my feelings for you

to you

and again tomorrow

too

 

 

 

4-24-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(178)

It was as if yesterday

never had ended

But was just put on pause

for us to experience today

so we could go back to it

tomorrow

again

 

 

 

 

4-24-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(734)

change creates love

love creates change

create to change

change to create

love to change

change to love

 

 

 

 

 

 

4-24-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(104)

 

So simple to please

so please be simple

and let complications melt

like I do

when we are one

 

 

 

 

4-20-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(1342)

I wanted the last word

and that's why I'm still here

in the middle of time

and I'll be around at the end

if it too

just to have

the final say

 

 

 

 

 

4-24-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage(776)

* 466 (12x12)

NEC

 

Just before God

went off on holiday

I asked if things would change

There was no answer

that was when I realized

God had left earlier

than anticipated

leaving us

in change

to sort out the mess

we're in

 

 

 

 

 

 

June 7 1993 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage868

 

 

*=465 11x11

NEC

In the fickle

realms of reality

meanings

are invented

as explanations

while in my world

where reality

is kept out by walls of gold

I am free

in the security

of illusion

and the realism of magic

cascading

through senses

that never were

to be included

in this world

but

and more ?

No! There was never meant to be anything but this

passing dreams

we have been

seduced by

8-7-93 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage580

 

 

 

* = 464

NEC

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LIFE

IS SHORT AND STRANGE

LIKE

AN ANCIENT POEM

BUT

LIVES FOREVER

LIKE AN ANCIENT POEM

 

 

 

 

 

JUNE 8 93 894 Victor Harbor copyright Terrell Neuage110 VICTORIA STREET

 

not quite

but close enough to have a name

different

but up close it all looks the same

meanings

slip away before dawn's early reveal

your touch

for a moment was almost real

tomorrow

maybe longer

pattern upon pattern

assembled secrets

chant my name

who am I?

but just another not a name

lingering on the tip

of too many swallowed

meanings

and by listening once again

the whispering shadow

reveals

your touch made me real

7/28/93 110 Victoria Street (1134)

 

 

THE WHISPERING MIST

REVEALED

YOUR TOUCH MADE ME REAL

SO NO LONGER

A SHADOW TOO

I'D BE

 

 

 

 

 

 

7/28/93 100 Victoria Street (1486)

 

 

in Sarajevo, Belfast, Beirut, Victor Harbor, Los Angeles,

trees grow flowers bloom rain falls

doing what they've been governed to do always

like humans

fulfilling genetic destiny

to war, dispute, desire but never learn

and over looking nature

who will be and always has been unlike humans

who were created

for nature's amusement

and who will stay

until something better

can be created

(this time with some proper genes)

a few dawns

down the road

a few yawns

left in the mold

a few pawns

of nature's soul

then wooosh

only nature

left

humans

left

7/29/93 (614(

STARS SO FAR AWAY

take no notice of our daily

wants wishes

dreams desires

loves losses

games growths

problems possessions

beliefs bingo

troubles thoughts

adventures appreciations

families fortunes

But live their cycles

no matter what we do

like love

so far away

yet always

within sight

7/29/93 110 Victoria Street (1352)

Why only in my waking dream

before dawn's shadow stealing smile

do I find us

so wrapped together

like once we knew

but too soon forgot?

You not on the earth

me so imprisoned in this form

dreams link us when I am not quite here

And you so surely elsewhere

is memory playing with mirrors deep in my brain

this perfect hologram of you

reflecting our love forever

though where forever we will be one

I do not know

But you are there constantly

(except when I open my eyes

which I do less all the time in fear of losing you forever

before I find the way to you)

Handing out your smile

asking me to follow but I can't

the dawn came you left today alone

once again I am blind with my eyes open

7/29/93 110 Victoria Street (1818)

 

 

 

the proof I have

that much I had

to prove

is simple

I'm a man

born of hand-me-down-genes

explorers, conquerors, kings, lovers, saints, jesters

it's in the genes

fighter pilot, basketballer, rocker, movie star

it's in the dreams

today's dreams tomorrow's genes

the only proof

a man will ever need

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7/29/93 110 Victoria Street (1424)

 

 

 

just as I wrote

in New Orleans, Paris

Honolulu, Fiji, Berlin

Sydney, Auckland, London Bangkok

And the places in between

I will write someday

in a space colony

flying past Mars

or on a moon of Jupiter

just as my ancestors

from caveman, to Plato, Jesus, King Arthur, handfuls of Kennedys

Don Juan-Don Quixote-Don Terrell

and the ones in between

I will write on and on and on

just as all men before me

'how doth I get me a woman tonight'

TECHNOLOGY CHANGES

MAN'S MIND NEVER WILL

 

 

7/29/93 110 Victoria Street (868)

 

winter on parade

frozen

waitings

wanting

wonderful though weird

we

were

writing upon frozen consciousness

like human beliefs

frozen in place

for thousands of years

needing

a good nuclear winter

to start the cycle

over

once

again

 

 

 

 

 

7/30/93 110 victoria street (1816)

 

 

 

 

I had you in my dream

we made morning come

I had you in my dream

you gave birth to our shadow

I had you in my dream

safe-sex again this morning

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7/29/93 110 Victoria Street (456)

 

POSSESSION

while in a dream

silent mist's shadows

its illusive impulses

becoming incoming coming

wrapped by your desire

projected in astral illusions

I opened up you entered

took my body for a spin

around la Grand Palais

through la Arc de Triomphe

(where 'we' had a few in a nearby shadow)

then the disco