S.MICHAEL DOWNS

S.MICHAEL DOWNS Poems

I got stung by a bee today
the pain made me think of you
I dug at the pointed barb embedded in my flesh
It made me think of you
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I'm writing to the wind
The words drift from my mouth
They dance and mix about
Then lose what they're about
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I went driving this morning.
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When the chin hits the chest
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by S. Michael Downs

Into the void I launch these words
Adrift in a sea of souls
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by S. Michael Downs

I am bound by the straitjacket of life
Shackeled by obligation to conformity
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Oversight
By S. Michael Downs @2008
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ALMOST TOO LATE
By Steve Downs @2008

When it’s almost too late I value
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Waves! ! ! ! !
by S. Michael Downs

Heavy comes the wave,
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THERE’S A SMELL IN THE AIR
By S. Michael Downs @2008

There’s a smell in the air and it’s not good.
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Other days
By S. Michael Downs @2008

Other days live in the pathways of our mind old roads to walk again.
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Break Me!
by S. Michael Downs @2008

Break me!
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Speaking with the Spirits
I came to ask of them
A knowledge more than sacred
And little known to men
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I remember watching the steam of your coffee waft upwards across your face
The cup cradled in cold hands on a winter morning
The light seemed to dance around you riotous in its arrival
Unwearied after its long journey from the sun
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After midnight, thats when it all goes down.
When the downtrodden find the lonely in hopes of mooching a free beer.
When the room is still crowded but the space between people is as dark and long as the wet walk home on a rainy night.
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Robert was a soldier of the heart, tall and awkward, without power or complexity.
Robert soldiered on through life.
Woman after woman looked through Robert never seeing him,
Nor caring to be seen by him. It was that bad.
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There's a corner where I hide
Small and covered with blue
Deeper than a well of screams
Dark as the words of my lover
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Like two pebbles in a stream they clung to one another.
Secure in their place and anchored to life by their mutual commitment.
As the turbulent water washed over them they accepted life as it was.
But alas the contradiction of their circumstances and their dreams caused a friction between them.
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As the falling of a snowflake
Existence Null

As the moment of last rain
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There’s something broken in me.
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S.MICHAEL DOWNS Biography

Born and lived a life. Discovered Charles Bukowski and started writing. Thanks Buk!)

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It Made Me Think Of You

I got stung by a bee today
the pain made me think of you
I dug at the pointed barb embedded in my flesh
It made me think of you

The tiny creature lay dead at my feet
Looking up at me to view my pain
Having given it's very existence to hurt me
It made me think of you

I dug deep to remove the poisoned barb
The flesh red and swollen
I cursed and danced about
To crush that tiny creature that had injured me so badly
It made me think of you

another one for Bukowski

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