A Poet's Podium
Chapter 2 - Page 2 - Poetry

Sleep (Hiding From The Touch Of Death) A slight chill disturbs the warm air A change is coming but it treats life so unfair What a scene, my eyes stop to stare On a mountain my eyes behold a living flare Though he's dying he doesn't care for he knows one day he'll become his own heir Now I sit in my rocking chair Watching Life and Death consummate their love affair He's given a chance to prepare Then again it seems more like war that they declare As Fates hand strips his body bare Over and over death is met without a prayer Out beyond the snow and the glare In the field I see a skeleton over there
		wz0zzz@yahoo.com He Who Laughs Last (Will Be A Fertile, Mutant Cockroach) When I look up in the air I can see the wind blowing I can see the trees dying From the tears the sky is crying It'll take much more than care To ease Mother Nature's pain To wash acid out of rain Oil is a quiet hurricane Show them all the evidence But they won't believe their eyes Even now they still deny Water is not all that clouds the sky When a doughnuts hole is gone There is nothing left to eat When ozones hole is complete There won't be anything but heat That's no way to heat our home We need an alternative And more initiative The bottom line is that we live If we murder Mother Earth Count now what your money won't be worth No one will laugh, no one will wear the final smile There will be no one to put on trial The Need To Be Free, The Desire To Fly There was a parrot loose in a tree Escaped from his cage and now he's free Free to soar anywhere in the blue sky How I've always wished that I too could fly Envy the parrot and all the birds For their songs are sweeter than words Better than any I could ever write My songs also want to escape into flight It's a shame that his feathers were furled And the rainbow he casts on the world Caged and covered, no wonder he flew From the ground I can see his point of view Sleep (Hiding From The Touch Of Death) I wrote SLEEP for Lisa. We met when I was in college in NJ and I have several pages about her listed below under Favorite URL's. One night after we had a fight on the phone over our "friendship vs a relationship", she hung up the phone on me and it was about 6 months before we spoke again. She forgave me for my stupidity and I tried to be a friend instead of a wannabe lover. A couple of months later I was with a friend in NJ close to where she lives and I called her to see what she was doing. We wound up going to NY City and hanging out all night. She mentioned to me that she had to write a poem for her college English class about nature. I had written her many poems over the years so she asked me if I could help her. That was a no brainer! So while my friend drove us home the morning after, I wrote "Sleep" in the car. She always did have a way of inspiring me. Even though she jokingly refered to me as her own personal stalker, she always liked the poems I wrote for her. She misses them now that I'm done stalk, er-ah, over my obsession. JJ The Midi file playing on this page is "Salt Water" by Julian Lennon/Mark Spiro/L Spiro. The original version is from the 1991 album HELP YOURSELF by Julian Lennon. Copyright 1991 Charisma Music Publishing, Inc., USA (ASCAP), Screen Gems-EMI Music, Inc./Mark Spiro Music, (BMI), The Night Rainbow Music/Girl Spiro Music (ASCAP) Link to Julian Lennon's official website under Favorite URL's in right side list below. Lyrics to Salt Water below this section. Link Info Follow the links below listed under Favorite URL's to other poetry pages on this site. There are a few additional links to my favorite poet James Kavanaugh's web site and other sites I think are worthy of being visited. All poetry on this website including all pages in Chapter 2 and chapter 3 have been written by me and copyright protected JFJ 2000 unless otherwise credited to the writer. Lyrics of SALTWATER We are a rock revolving Around a golden sun We are a billion children Rolled into one So when I hear about The hole in the sky Saltwater wells in my eyes We climb the highest mountain We'll make the desert bloom We're so ingenious We can walk on the moon But when I hear of how The forests have died Saltwater wells in my eyes I have lived for love But now that's not enough For the world I love is dying (And now I'm crying) And time is not a friend (No friend of mine) As friends we're out of time And it's slowly passing by Right before our eyes We light the deepest ocean Send photographs of Mars We're so enchanted by How clever we are Why should one baby Feel so hungry she cries Saltwater wells in my eyes I have lived for love But now that's not enough For the world I love is dying (And now I'm crying) And time is not a friend (No friend of mine) As friends we're out of time And it's slowly passing by Right before our eyes We are a rock revolving Around a golden sun We are a billion children Rolled into one What will I think of me The day that I die Saltwater wells in my eyes Saltwater wells in my eyes Julian Lennon- Mark Spiro- L Spiro Copyright 1991 Charisma Music Publishing, Inc., USA (ASCAP), Screen Gems-EMI Music, Inc./Mark Spiro Music, (BMI), The Night Rainbow Music/Girl Spiro Music (ASCAP) Other pages on my web site. Other web sites I like and support. Index Page - The main index with all pages listed in Favorite URL's & song lyrics + midi music to "I'm Alive" by Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman & Howe - The real YES Chapter 1 - Main Bio page with pics and other info Chapter 2 : Walls & Bridges, Ro_Ro Rows Her Boat - Where the Poetry pages begin - Behind the Poems - Pics - Links Segregation, Separation - Poems about Prejudice & Pride Graduation Speech 12/10/99 - NYS OCFS Parker Training Academy Class V V Artificial Artists, Artists Are Lonely - Poetry Is Art ! Including another pic of Me. Where Are You Going. I've Seen Where You've Been!, Room For Rent?Room For Free, I Wish I Wasn't Me - Rage & Broken Love If Closets Could Talk, On Our Way Home - Two poems about friends and friendships lost Self Portrait, Blind To The Me Others See, Two Faced & Constantly Changing - Poems of the inner me. Including another Pic of Me. The Family Way & Quarter Life Crisis - Poems about Family crisis. Including another Pic of Me. Someone's Drowning In Your Pool & Sunshine Smile - A Dark and Sunny Summer Day. The Great Unknown, A Question Of Faith & Have You Heard The Word? - Three poems of faith, or lack thereof God's Children, Do Not Die For Me - In God We War On Empty Arms And Burning Flags, Stars And Stripes & There's More Than One Way - Freedom & the Flag Every Eden Has It's Apples & Measure Of Success - Poems about working for a living Working Class Blues: Coming Soon - Under Construction Unspoken Thirst, Daylight's Darkness & Mistaken Identity - A few puzzling poems about love At The End Of Every Rainbow & Rainbows In The Night Sky - A couple more poems of mine about rainbows and love Aisumasen Renee & Too Late For Lament - My first Real Poem and for me personally, the most important one I've ever written. I'm Still A Boy, Maggie Maybe & Life Long Wife - My First Real Love Haven't I Been Here Before? - Maggie 2 Future Poems : Coming Soon: Maggie 3 - Maggie 3 : Under Construction What Are We Waiting For?, The Unvieling & On The Outside - Poems for Lisa: Part 1 Poems for Lisa 2 - Poems for Lisa: Part 2 Poems for Lisa 3 - Poems for Lisa: Part 3 Poems for Lisa 4 - Poems for Lisa: Part 4 Poems for Lisa 5 - Poems for Lisa: Part 5 Poems for Robin - Robin's Nest Poems for Robin 2 - Under Construction Robins Wings - Under Construction At Long Last Love?: Coming Soon - Under Construction Hypnocize Me & Booty Camp: Coming Soon - Under Construction : Hypnocize Me & Booty Camp: Air-Robics makes the heart beat faster & the sweat flow like a waterfall - BJ With All My Heart, A Lover's Serenade, Coming Soon - Under Construction - BJ Unrequited Love, The Emptyness Within, You Miss Me, Do You?, I Want To Lie, Perfection Is Within & excerpts from love letters : Coming Soon - Under Construction - BJ Unrequited Love2: Coming Soon - Under Construction - BJ Unrequited Love3: Coming Soon - Under Construction - Amy Unrequited Love4: Coming Soon - Under Construction - Amy Eye Of The Pirate, Heart Of A Thief, Nice Guys Rescued Last, Daybreak, Last Love : Coming Soon - Under Construction - A Pirates Treasure Forgive And Forget: Coming Soon - Under Construction Future Link - Coming Soon Save A Starving Poet - Donate to a Poet in need Save A Starving Poet - Donate to a Poet in need Environmental Advocates - EPL - Several years ago, I worked for EPL - Environmental Advocates. I managed to catch one of the worst colds of my life hoofing door to door in a bone chilling Autum rain to get people to join as memebers. In spite of Mother Nature's attack on my health, I still love her and encourage those of you living in NY State to become a member of EPL. Higher Ground for Humanity - Jewel Kilcher and Lenedra Carroll - Higher Ground for Humanity Clear Water Project - Jewel Kilcher and Lenedra Carroll - Clear Water Project Friends of the Earth - US - Friends of the Earth - US Friends of the Earth - International - Friends of the Earth International homepage Friends of the Earth - UK - Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland Enviroment - Climate Voice - Mother Nature Environment - Impact On-Line - Environmental issues. Online Environmental Managers - Yahoo Club dedicated to the preservation of the environment. Environmental Protectors Online - Yahoo club : Help Protect Mother Earth Julian Lennon - Official Julian Lennon website. Julian Lennon - Help Yourself - Official Julian Lennon website. Track list of songs on Help Yourself LP and lyrics to Salt Water James Kavanaugh - A great poet, writer & American Jewel Kilcher - Jewel, Poet, Singer, Songwriter, Musician Library Of Congress Copyright Forms - Library Of Congress Copyright Forms http:// www.loc.gov/copyright/forms/ US Copyright Registration form 106 - Keep Your Poetry YOURS. Copyright protect it with this downloadable form and instructions. Music Midi file Copyrights are listed on each page they appear on. If I have forgotten any or you see any that are incorrect, please let me know so that I can give propper credit where it is due. I have Midi music files on each page of my website of people I admire and songs that mean something to me. I try to keep the theme of the page and the Midi file related to one another. Perhaps someday, I will create music for some of my poems and put Midi files of them here instead. Enter a City or US Zip: Yahoo Messanger Remote AOL Instant Messanger Remote Download AOL Instant Messenger If you would like to have a message posted in the guestbook, send it to wz0zzz@yahoo.com and I will transpose it for you. The Guestbook is no longer funtional since Talk City went out of business and took my original website with it. Fortunately I saved all of the HTML to my site so I am able to recreate all of the pages, but not all of the funtions as some were a part of Talk City and not my website. I will be adding a new Guestbook very soon. The old one will remain for your reading pleasure.