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The Two Way Mirror

I fly through the trees, my eyes fixed on a cup of water That drifts between Heaven & Hell, since smiling drugstores sell ice cream for cancer, until midnight captures stars reflecting The Carny's bark of deliverance, while mice sleep for centuries, as Wagons circle around junipers, parched jasmine lays forgotten until reports of muskets shake power, absent 'till gold surrenders to floating Shards of glass, speaking mystical tongues from mouths of Mustangs trampling religion that heralds Cathedrals of Angels- voices, my Grandfather promised tomorrow voices, my Grandfather promised tomorrow

Copyright © | Year Posted 2017




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Date: 7/20/2018 10:17:00 PM
very interesting write my friend
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James Marshall Goff
Date: 7/21/2018 8:02:00 AM
Thanks Al...hard poem to decipher, refers to my keeping the faith, literally & viscerally, as my Grandfather taught me...
Date: 7/8/2018 3:00:00 PM
Thanks for this amazing effort James. shalom, shalom
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Date: 9/12/2017 6:25:00 PM
A flight of your imagination I percive here Jimbo, I can feel you attempting to loose yourself into enlightenment..' I sense it will come for you, yet when it does you shall find it very hard to reconcile with the world, yet that is as it should be.' then you will need all your strength to balance that which has been glimpsed with the almost dead weight of this part-life we here know.' I wish you well.)
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James Marshall Goff
Date: 9/12/2017 7:20:00 PM
I visit such places freely in my dreamtime, Joe...often documenting upon waking (my "dreamtime" series here,) thanks for your great comments, appreciate your insight...jimbo
Date: 8/28/2017 1:12:00 AM
It's been a long time, nice to revisit and find some of my favs left on the site. Excellent piece of work...Karla
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James Marshall Goff
Date: 8/28/2017 9:46:00 AM
Nice to see you Karla!
Date: 8/14/2017 8:46:00 PM
Hi James: A deep profound poem to the point of sounding redundant and also bordering on the abstract. I'm sure that you may not have planned it that way but I'm happy that I read you Great write!
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James Marshall Goff
Date: 8/14/2017 10:13:00 PM
Thanks Ralph...much fun to write
Date: 7/26/2017 7:40:00 AM
Interesting work..I get the feeling it is speaking about someone dying with cancer and suffering from hallucinations..I haven't seen you around for awhile or maybe I have just missed you..Sara
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James Marshall Goff
Date: 7/27/2017 7:34:00 AM
Nice to see you, my longtime friend! geez...looking at my poem today I see I was describing possibly another dimension...even parallel universe I was trying to get at I sense...what with everything going on in my life
Date: 7/26/2017 12:08:00 AM
ohh, though abstract in concept, you delivered the feeling of anticipation in a time of illness... beautifully rendered, jimbo... huggs
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James Marshall Goff
Date: 7/26/2017 7:09:00 AM
Thanks for stoppin' by, Nette...yes, Mom recovering from a fall...2 broken wrists & broken ankle...back home from nursing home hell...rough patch...gettin' better...haven't even been down the Big River in Wisconsin all summer!

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