What have I done oh dear oh dear
What have I done to me It's not clear
I don't understand
You run here and there saying you care
Our bond has long since unraveled
Broken by things we don’t understand
Is it a need... – by TJ Johnson | 5 Views added 2 years ago
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Can you see the inky swirling darkness
With every bit of hope twice is the loss
Another shade of darkness settles in.
Dark is not the darkest, you find out
With each broken heart and sad moment
Another layer of infringing darkness falls upon you... – by TJ Johnson | 5 Views added 2 years ago
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It hangs in the sky to inspire all of mankind
It makes your hair shine soft and your eyes shimmer bright
My heart weeps from across the night sky
When I look into the moon my heart finds the room
Room for your love from across that moonlit sky
No... – by TJ Johnson | 5 Views added 2 years ago
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Sitting hand and hand with our heads back
Gazing at the early stars as more begin to appear
The smells of the surf and sounds of gulls
Make every second memorable.
The lights are now glimmering along the boardwalk
As we find seclusion in an... – by TJ Johnson | 3 Views added 2 years ago
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The call that haunts my eternal soul
Beckoned by the one that bears the fruit of four
Unknown or denial blinded by shame
Falling from the sky paralyzed not by fear
Ambition, hopes and dreams dissolved
Self-worth nothing over a D mark or two
Privacy... – by TJ Johnson | 2 Views added 2 years ago
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Hello. It’s me calling from a tree
From a tree? Yes a tree
Hello. It’s me calling from a mountain cave
From a cave? Yes a cave
Hello. It’s me calling from my bike
From your bike? Yes my bike
Hello. It’s me calling from a Ferris wheel
From a... – by TJ Johnson | 3 Views added 2 years ago
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The shore, So inviting and salubrious.
Greets you with sounds of a gentle surf.
Pipers running and darting, chasseing a meal
Sand and sea mixing at your feet
A gentle breeze tickles your ears.
It plays so impishly twirling your hair about. ... – by TJ Johnson | 6 Views added 2 years ago
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Fleeting fast a retched gull
Squall of deaths door past
Sailors plight scurvy and shame
Promises, wealth and adventures abash
Lashing, block, tackle and tarpaulin
unnoticed below deck boards
A wine cache of barrels full
Twice the tea less the... – by TJ Johnson | 5 Views added 2 years ago
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Don’t be deceived by a calm blue sea
For diligently it toils, for you and for me
Above the blue surface
Just past the grey pine boards
Spreads an ocean of tall green grasses
A beautiful home for Mallard and Gander
Minnows, Flounder and Eel... – by TJ Johnson | 7 Views added 2 years ago
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Long legs big beak stealthy like a fox
White plumage wings of glory
Folded underneath
Long neck blazing eyes the Egret stalks its prey
The fiddler and the frog know to stay away
In the distance a muskrats indifference
As it burrows through the... – by TJ Johnson | 2 Views added 2 years ago
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Hey! What early morning light shimmers
through Cat Tails and reed alike
The early birds chirp and sing
waiting for that morning... – by TJ Johnson | 6 Views added 2 years ago
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Mr. Blue, I sit and wonder
what brings you to this beach?
I sit here nearly every day
my thoughts many miles away
As today is, yesterday was
Tomorrow approaches with
Much the same... – by TJ Johnson | 5 Views added 2 years ago
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Oh Mr Banana tree
I sit before thee
Yet right next door
A mighty Oak stands tall
Tall and intimidatingly beautiful.
Yet I sit before thee Mr Banana... – by TJ Johnson | 15 Views added 2 years ago
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LADIES AND GENTS!
Focus your attention to these three tents
Full of amazing oddities from around the globe
Step right up, step right in
drop a dime you’ll get right... – by TJ Johnson | 1 View added 2 years ago
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Strolling the planks and watching the crowds
while seagulls and pigeons fight under foot
Miss America, jitney’s and Baltimore grill
Busses maneuver as drivers bark out the stops
Baltic, States and Pacific Avenues
Monopoly was here before it was in... – by TJ Johnson | 4 Views added 2 years ago
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She came to me on wings of silken gold.
Yeah it be in a dream of 48 hours, I was ready.
Her face was that of Aphrodite, I was surely ready.
A body of pure polished marble
Adorned with a flowing white toga of no mortal seamstress.
So... – by TJ Johnson | 4 Views added 2 years ago
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Calling, the early morning Raven
makes his presence known.
He greats the morning sun with
blackened wings widespread.
He makes his perch atop a spire.
Lethargic be not this fowl,
thus pains of hunger should be your fetish.
The Crows, nine... – by TJ Johnson | 1 View added 2 years ago
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Windows to our soul such a Cliché
I first noticed your beautiful eyes, lame
Deep dark abyss drawing you in
A dream, free fall, nausea abounds
hair streaming past your face as you fall
You notice but hardly care, stars and comets
Swiftly you pass,... – by TJ Johnson | 4 Views added 2 years ago
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Such wretched pain, in a Thorn, dose not exist.
I've challenged better men to
Show me the pain of which they speak.
Show me what pain lies within the thorn.
Each of a thousand farmers, warriors
and the like, have failed at 10 paces
So accuse not the... – by TJ Johnson | 2 Views added 2 years ago
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Dopamine, Comtan
Agonist, Antagonist
Carbidopa, Levodopa
Amantadine, On the scene
Mirapex, Sinemet
Closing like a net
Double Blind, Placebo
Where are we supposed to go?
Depression, repression
Nobody wants to know.
They ignore you and that floors you... – by TJ Johnson | 7 Views added 2 years ago
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A warm summers eve you sit alone
Not from cause but by choice
With eyes closed and head back
You begin to travel on memories track
Some are twisted some are straight
No need to hurry or quicken your gate
From everywhere you hear the sound
A sweet... – by TJ Johnson | 0 Views added 2 years ago
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The Mission
(port... – by TJ Johnson | 2 Views added 2 years ago
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When the sky is no longer blue
And stars fail to shine
When the Flowers no longer bloom
And the birds and bees no longer fly
When the rain no longer falls
And rivers and streams run dry
When the sun no longer shines
And grapes no longer make wine... – by TJ Johnson | 9 Views added 2 years ago
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When the sky is no longer blue
And stars fail to shine
When the Flowers no longer bloom
And the birds and bees no longer fly
When the rain no longer falls
And rivers and streams run dry
When the sun no longer shines
And grapes no longer make wine... – by TJ Johnson | 1 View added 2 years ago
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When the moon rises
I feel the beauty and romance
it creates in our hearts
When the sun rises
I see the parade of beauty that follows it
When the sun sets
I see the glow of comforting hands
ushering in the evening
When the stars twinkle
I... – by TJ Johnson | 5 Views added 2 years ago
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The gulls seem to laugh
flying observantly overhead.
Children covered with sand swim and play.
Waves crash around them,
as they race for shore.
The sun caresses all with its warmth.
Soon it gives way to the night.
And the moon, as if on cue, begins... – by TJ Johnson | 9 Views added 2 years ago
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The sweet blossoms of spring
Coaxed from their sleep by the warmth of the sun
Calling the birds to song.
Cardinals, Jays and Robins,
Share their melodies with the world.
Squirrels maneuver their highways
and byways looking for their bounty.
No one... – by TJ Johnson | 1 View added 2 years ago
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From deep in the abyss shrouded by life
Light trickles through the voids
It calls, yet nothing stirs life's ambition
False promises no recollection
The forest, the dreams, the light
Dreams are many as trees once were
Each with a dream each with a... – by TJ Johnson | 2 Views added 2 years ago
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Like a rat in a maze
Life can be a haze
Yet it goes on
The drive is reward
Be it cheese or hope
The struggle is no joke
Take away the cheese or the hope
When life's rewards are gone
You become lost
Forgotten in the... – by TJ Johnson | 1 View added 2 years ago
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Jersey winds blast, twirl and howl.
The rain dances and sings
as it clatters on roof and pane.
The fierce salty waves crash over the beach.
Fralingers is just within reach
Folklore tells the Devils tail
Bogs of cranberries and trees of pine
Farms... – by TJ Johnson | 5 Views added 2 years ago
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Running here running there
As if people really don't care
This place and that place
It’s just a fancy rat race
Mazes and tunnels wafting with cheese
Skinny rats following fat rats tall and short rats
Running here and running there
No one stops or... – by TJ JOHNSON | 3 Views added 2 years ago
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Siting on the shore with Gillians at your back
And a beautiful girl at your side
The wind gently rolls over her moist skin
Change is on its way
You look into her eyes and kiss her so gently
Change is on its way and it doesn't always announce its... – by TJ Johnson | 11 Views added 2 years ago
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