Under my arm, books full of winding words.
Wonderful yarns, pointing out to other worlds.
Under some spell, can’t see past this week.
Giving it hell, inheriting from the meek.
Driving from the back seat, car won’t slow down.
Waking …
and there it goes…
And there it goes now again,
Trinkets and snippets,
Whipped up in a windless whippet,
Caught and carried through dreamless air
To a foreign lair.
And here I hold you tight again,
As if today’s embrace could shorten
Tomorrow’s distance …
Been a While
It has been a while. Since last me met. I passed you in the stairwell. You remember how it went?
It’s been a while. Since I found out. The feelings faded finally. But dreams release their pain on me.
It’s …
lost keys
on the edge of the world
stand alone at the waves
in the back of your mind
where you going to be saved?
we are stealing from the future
We are dreaming hollow rhyme
we have borrowed many fortunes
we …
Stolen March
I don’t know the when and where
I’ll find you then and meet you there
In the end it’s all the same
Stolen march and borrowed fame.
I folded it and passed it on,
A paper declaration of, my doubt…
(In) Memory of a Goldfish
have to lose to want to get
space travel for dummies
space travel for life
the ether in my brain is candy floss
the crystals in my soul are stolen
you either know or not and I’m lost
the jump-starts …
bump
Closer closer till you burn,
Now there’s no room left to turn…
All or nothing, in or out,
We have no time to throw about.
I guess I’ve been a stupid guy,
To stop and wait and not to try.…
about face
Find yourself in the unfamiliar
the foreign,
the other…
Find what, exactly?
Bloody changes changing changed
Welcome welcome sit and beat and rearrange
Can’t help myself the way it goes
Give it up until it shows
Easy in and never …
last minute checks
[audio:http://donalkelly.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/lastMinuteChecks.mp3|titles=Last Minute Checks]You say that
you’re climbing
Always inspiring, without a clue
You say you’re still growing
Only unfolding, now look at you
When you’re positively,
Floating on empty, what can you do?
You’re totally open,
Made to be broken, …
flup
Here, now, whatever.
Hard to say if it’s for today or for forever,
What would we know either way?
some day, another,
some day, brother.
Fear now,
Strips and strands.
Plays on his words,
Forgets his hands.
He’s a failure …
Saturated
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Baby it’s too hard to say it, but too late to stop,
In a moment it’s all gone for good.
And I can’t help but feeling, that this is the top.
We’ve taken as much as we could.
Now …
cast/go
Cast it back,
Cast it out,
Freckled innocence,
Blooming doubt…
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The present is the presence of past.
Wrap and preserve it since nothing will last?
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If daily we have the same lessons,
And become as the message itself…
Sky Blue
Work to rule,
A simple fool.
Something crude-
Far too rude.
Sky blue,
Future tell.
Sky blue,
Hope you are well.
Time strapped,
Brain mapped.
Predicted states,
Expensive rates.
Sky blue,
What can I say?
Sky blue,
Some other way…
plensium
still, others othered often bothered…
the key to inner pieces
the one who follows to pick them up
same thoughts in different brains, different times
change afoot and up to no good
splices in all sizes
torn apart asunder…
Umpilton
Dredge…
Shred first, taste later
The hard-won destruction fakes its toll
Ledge…
Bled first, healthy again,
The softer climates rust the weakly postured
The milk slips over the edge of the bowl
Bits and bobs sieze up and collapse
Litter …
the last post
from one to one
choosing
to be self-defined
musing
held in some regard
repeating
judged to have erred
misleadingmay
Bollox to the stream of consciousness
It is but a passing trend
Like all things to all people
The idea …
Notes from Underground
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You been running away, calling out names
And it’s a lot on your plate, give it away
ohh, down, to the underground
ohh down, away from the crowd
Too long hanging around, and you know …
I’m not there
[audio:http://donalkelly.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Broodeye.mp3|titles=I’m Not There]
you’ve come this far doing what you can
don’t forget to turn the lights off when you leave
your master plan is an also-ran
and you know just about as much as you are led to believe…
fire below zero
Stars beyond the street lights
Ice settled on the road
December silently cold
Tell tale signs of a heart on fire
Will it keep me warm on the way home?
Make up for lost jackets and hours?
Or will it …
On the Up and Up
wait,
one more time again
ever expanding speeches
trading off the win
to burn away the leeches
you
will never pass this way
not your kind of place
Though I can live with that
I’d much prefer to stay
will,…