Deep In My Couch (V2)
Deep in my couch
of magnetic dust,
I am a bearded old man.
I pull out my last bundle
of memories beneath
my pillow for review.
What is left, old man,
cry solo in the dark.
Here is a small treasure chest
of crude diamonds, a glimpse
of white gold, charcoal,
fingers dipped in black tar.
I am a temple of worship with trinket dreams,
a tea kettle whistling ex-lovers boiling inside.
At dawn, shove them under, let me work.
We are all passengers traveling
on that train of the past—
senses, sins, errors, or omissions
deep in that couch.
Nightlife Jungle Beat
Like all thing’s life changes, its melodies fragment.
It breaks pieces apart, then they drift, then shatter.
The singers of songs love bars,
naked bodies, consistencies, and inconsistencies
that makes it burn all turn outright at night.
They like to drum repeat rhythms and sounds.
Poets like to retreat to dens
of pleasure just like these.
Sing poets sing off-key
free verse notes down by the bridge,
near the river as far as their voices
will carry them away.
It is the nature of difference,
indifference a vocabulary of us confused,
minds between insanity and genius.
The hermit asks for
a public forum in shyness,
while treading to the bar
next door for a shot of tequila
no money, no life.
MICHAEL
LEE JOHNSON
MICHAEL LEE JOHNSON lived ten years in Canada, Vietnam
era. Today he is a poet in the greater Chicagoland area, IL. He has 245 YouTube poetry videos. Michael Lee
Johnson is an internationally published poet 43 countries, several published
poetry books, nominated for 3 Pushcart Prize awards and 5 Best of the Net
nominations. He is editor-in-chief of 3 poetry anthologies, all available on
Amazon, and has several poetry books and chapbooks. He has over 536 published
poems. Michael is the administrator of 6 Facebook Poetry groups. Member
Illinois State Poetry Society: http://www.illinoispoets.org/. Do not forget to
consider me for Best of the Net or Pushcart nomination!
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