The Positive Prime, a book of Poetry Read online

  Do we stop believing the stories?

  Do we stop knowing facts?

  To live a fools paradise!

  ANGER

  To be upset

  To be wrong

  To do the opposite

  Angrily I got myself upset

  I ran out of the house

  I ran into the streets

  I keep running into the streets

  God be with me

  Jesus be with me

  Anger is hatred

  I was mean

  I was angry

  I become in front of anger

  Anger made me mad

  I went out of my mind with hatred.

  BEYOND GOOD and EVIL

  (Part Two)

  BALANCE

  In Nature,

  We see a positive and a negative,

  -A plus and a minus.

  For every reaction

  There is an opposite and equal reaction,

  Like Heaven and Hell- in the biblical term.

  But in-between there is a neutral position

  A medium point or at zero; like

  There is Earth, lukewarm, or in the middle.

  We rest on this medium point,

  As the balance,

  Rest at equilibrium and a point of equality.

  There are extremes,

  Alpha-Omega,

  Plus and minus infinities,

  Good and evil,

  Right and left,

  There are Conservatives and Radicals.

  Somewhere in the middle

  Lies the optimum point  best place

  This makes sense and is very sensible  logical.

  But we have been misled to believe there is a middle ground

  Middle class, middle of the road, a point of moderation.

  There are no middle- only extremes

  There is one, not the other.

  You or me!

  So, we usually settle for the optimum,

  Or best place

  Not the best.

  If you set your sights too high

  Then you fail and lose everything

  (The equal and opposite reactions)

  So, we try for second or third best

  Something safer! Then we lose less.

  Gain some  lose some. Gain-lose

  Until we reach medium status, status-quo  average.

  Everybody just wants to be average, right?

  No!

  We each want to be our best

  A- Number one

  Rich, positive, good, great, meaningful

  Our best is an extreme.

  We can end up bad, get an F, poor, negative, minuscule, weak, and so on.

  The other extreme!

  But we all want the positive extreme

  We have been lead to believe

  This is an animal instinct or reaction

  To just want

  (We react to desire, lust, and wealth.)

  But I think that it is a human tendency, quality, attribute-

  All we want is the unlimited,

  No holds barred- the extreme or the best.

  People want to go to Heaven and not less than that!

  Everyone wants to be happy and never have a sad day.

  Most people feel that their money will bring all the happiness in this world.

  -I do not know where you are coming from; you are too extreme from me!-

  RESPECT

  God made man in his

  Image or likeness&

  He just

  Wanted to know

  What He was not.

  So when you desire

  To see God

  Just look

  At the lest,

  Whomever you feel

  Or see as the low-

  The worst off

  The bad people

  Then you will see God!

  If we are Gods likeness,

  Then the worst that we can see

  Is us.

  Maybe, He wants us to

  Know who He is not-

  Us!

  Everything that He is

  Is who we are not?

  RAIN

  It is not the friend

  To me

  That the rain

  Because there is pain!

  Just as the sun is so

  Bright

  Rain is dull

  There is hate

  Because there is rain

  (Save for a rainy day)

  Rain is nothing!

  It is not that it cries

  The rain

  It is so not dry

  Rain is wet and slippery

  Do not blame it on rain

  Is there really rain?

  -In the garden.

  I GIVE TO ME LOVE

  Of the love that I have

  I gave some to me.

  You did not call me

  To give me your love

  But I did not need it.

  I did not give you any love

  Today

  I hope that you were

  Able to give

  Yourself some,

  Because that love (of yourself)

  Of all the love I have for you

  But that love (of you).

  It is the only love in this world

  That I can never give.

  So I give to me some love

  Today-

  THE GIFT

  If, there is no Christmas tree,

  Then is there still a gift there?

  Ask any

  Child,

  The answer would be no!

  So, if you have the gift

  It must be carefully presented.

  SPECIAL LOVE

  I like you

  You like me,

  It's like the way

  It's supposed to be.

  We are friends,

  We fall in love,

  That's what happens

  When you feel it

  Come from above.

  Then we'll go

  On that way,

  Together

  Go in that special way.

  Love as sweet,

  Cannot be reached

  Just lived for

  And lived in-

  We are friends.

  HOPES (Ann Dreams)

  What is the chance?

  Of you and me having a romance?

  How about if we loved the night away?

  What would you say?

  Could we get together?

  And talk about the weather?

  Go out for a stroll,

  Before we get too old?

  Maybe we can just be here?

  Holding one another's hand

  We can go to a restaurant,

  -Dinner for two?

  Just to be with you,

  Is all that I want!

  If you can see

  Yourself with me!

  BEYOND GOOD and EVIL

  (Part One)

  FAITH

  It is only

  For love

  That I live

  And

  Through

  The breath of life

  That I

  Understand

  How much

  He loves me

  (That he has always been there for me!)

  Love is.

  GOOD TO BE NEAR

  In the morning

  As I awake

  I dont find reason

  There is no rhyme

  I just heard you calling

  Out my name

  So good to have you here

  It has been too long

  I was so alone

  Been out on my own

  Lets join in together

  To compose a song

  So good to have you near

  Love is but a beat away

  From a heart filled with pain

  Lets walk the thin line

  Tempt fate again

  So good just to be here<
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  Good to love you dear

  If were not making love

  Then its not working out

  If we dont kiss

  Then we are going to fight

  When you are on my mind

  All the time and I cannot think

  When I dont look for you

  I look for a drink

  Then I am useless to myself

  Useless for you too

  Kiss now again and again

  Tell me that it not true

  We cannot be in two places at one time

  While I am out working for you

  But it is so good to have you with me

  So good to have you here

  If were not making love

  Its not working out

  Love me love me baby day and night

  Love is a good thing

  Just good to love you

  We cannot be in two places at one time

  Stay here with me

  So good to have you love me

  Holding is not controlling

  Good to be here!

  Chapter 3-

  UNDERSTANDING THE UNIVERSE

  THE GHOST WITH THE MOST

  You may never read a verse

  Or ever see it,

  Like Steve can see

  C and c-minor,

  Or know of it.

  But you do know

  Like your own foot

  Before you knew

  What it was called.

  It is the ghost with the most,

  Cause there is no other.

  It is less to it

  That you can see,

  But more to it that understands

  That it is!

  Cause it is

  None other!

  If it ever should rise from the night

  And is seen,

  Its your pleasure

  That it was always there.

  It is not more, to be

  Than not to be (known)?

  It may be that it talks only

  To Shakespeare

  He spoke.

  If it is only that pleasure it has,

  It enjoyed itself with less,

  Being the ghost of the most-

  Everything we do not need to know

  Even less than that,

  Since the ignorance is bliss!

  Then knowledge is the fight, the war.

  Between the right and the wrong

  Why should the world be otherwise?

  Dont go gentle into that goodnight&!

  If heaven awaits,

  Then is the hell the waiting?

  It only knows about the love.

  And it does not want

  But more of that (love).

  It hears your pain

  It is a figment of your imagination

  It is not,

  So is the pain!

  Is life the breath of life

  Or the realities of losing that breath?

  If the only ghost you know

  Are dead and gone,

  Then only a ghost knows what life was.

  But really, how many ghosts do you know?

  It is the ghost with the most

  Because it is real

  And you will never know it

  Because it is who you are

  And it is who you are not.

  If more is less in reality

  Then it is a ghost from the most.

  The only desire is to know God,

  Or if you are not inclined

  Then

  Your desire is to know who he is.

  If there is a devil in the world

  Then, he only desires to be seen

  By the empty eyes that do not look back.

  He imagines that he can see

  Looking at you, you looking at he

  We are not looking at us.

  Seeing that we are and knowing that it is

  There is truth and wisdom down below,

  (In the mud),

  Beneath the prime BS

  MONEY

  Money itself has little or no value.

  It is solely a tool of economics.

  One of a number of assets-

  Wealth is the accumulation of moneys,

  But wealth is not an asset;

  It is a status of having assets or money.

  Without the status (quo) money means little.

  The true validity of money

  It its negative value,

  Or as it is said,

  "The lack of money," or assets

  And lack of status.

  Because status is determined

  As the amount of money and assets

  That you do not have also!

  -Keeping up with the Jones!-

  In a real way status may not

  Be just wealth!

  But poverty (in real terms) is

  An economic state,

  The amount of money (wealth) is not a problem.

  The lack of money or assets is a problem!

  Money has another value as a vehicle of

  Purpose-

  With or without money, things can and will change.

  People can change-

  Clothes, diet, and attitudes can change.

  Money has a perception of its own.

  "The haves and the have-nots-"

  But what is it that -we have or not have?-

  Money ill-produced

  Has the same value of money-earned honestly.

  We know this.

  But it is the so-called honest

  Who fail to acknowledge this!

  By not doing so, they also de-value honesty.

  .

  Honesty has but one reward

  And it has little to do with money.

  (-There still is a difference between what

  Is good and what is evil -?)

  GOT IT WRONG!

  There is a man talking about

  My rights, his rights

  He has a new idea

  He is a revolutionary.

  There is a man sending

  Men to war,

  Keeping his and mine rights.

  He has the same old idea

  That war is the only way-

  He is a president.

  Tell us why?

  Someone got it wrong.

  The revolutionary is not the one-

  Who wants the fight!

  In my country

  Rights are the status quo

  Because

  We believe in rights

  It is the others who are the ones

  Who are always fighting-!

  That is not the democratic way.

  Live free or die!

  Just an opinion!

  GEMINI SPIRIT

  Twins-

  Two-in-one-

  I had two grandfathers

  (Like many do, most!)

  And they were the same-

  My grandfathers

  Taught me all (I think)

  That I would ever need to know

  About how to be a man:

  Belief, humility, grace

  Humor

  And service.

  I could have just sat there

  In front of them,

  Never needing to do more,

  But be there with my grandfathers.

  Thinking back,

  'They were as different as night and day,'

  Probably to each other

  They were "night and day."

  One was somewhat light-skinned

  And the other was somewhat dark-skinned.

  They both seemed to me

  To be very personable and charming

  Then they went different ways.

  One grandfather was the familys heart and soul;

  The other sought to bring the

  Man's heart and soul

  Back,

  Being black it gets that way

  You are humble and arrogant Together,


  -At -once

  And when you are Black

  You know that they can both be the same

  One grandfather was a poet and

  One was the usher in church.

  They both served the Lord.

  When the usher died

  Everyone was there

  (Even the poet, I saw him!).

  But, when the poet died

  Few were there (for him),

  -Not even me.

  I finally understood the poet,

  He answered many questions.

  Why I am different from most?

  And why I have my own viewpoint of this world?

  I knew the usher well!

  He was the first to take me

  Out to do work.

  Being a poet

  The great question is,

  How can I work?

  'Till I poet!

  He was the poet,

  Asking me all the questions?

  While he was the usher

  Who taught me how to listen!

  Work is its own reward.

  A question is hard-

  (God knows)

  -When you are asked?

  Sometimes, a poem may have answers

  That helps you to sleep at night

  And get up the next day to go to work.

  It serves.

  So I have them together

  My Gemini Spirit,

  The Twins-

  They are the same, equal

  That makes this (humble) One.

  - Love to them both!-

  EMPTINESS

  Emptiness in a cold ocean

  The depth is cold and clear

  Most beautifully near

  Pieces of buried ships

  Long times o peace

  Hallow tides and currents

  Cold hours waiting on

  Travelers go by

  Help is on the way

  Buried down on the ocean floor

  HUMANITY

  I look at all the wealth

  And productivity

  That humanity has made

  (But, I see that it is still minimal to what Nature has done.)

  And I understand that it is

  Not humanitys purpose

  To be measured by wealth

  Or productivity

  In this realm of all

  The worlds treasures

  Humanity sits as a diamond in the rough.

  But treasure is just a way of thinking;

  An ideology and a culture,

  Amidst the human mind,

  And our humanity is worth a zillion diamonds.

  FAITH AND TRUTH

  There is a fight that I fight

  It is a truth, I am the fight.

  Truth is: I can never win

  But I can never lose.

  Truth has no compromise;

  It is of no consequence.

  Truth has no value,

  It is worthless and priceless