The Positive Prime, a book of Poetry Page 3
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<
br />
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