David Arndt Forgotten Words Poetry

"I read the news today, oh boy." A Newspaper Boys Memories of John Lennon's Assassination  *** "I read the news today, oh boy." Fourteen-year-old boy Riding my Bmx bike Bradford Woods, PA My First job Newspaper boy "I read the news today, oh boy." Read the headlines  knew little of life The wind in my hair In the Cold War's Fading year's "You better get yourself together Pretty soon you're gonna be dead" "I read the news today, oh boy." December 8, 1980 Chapman waits outside Dakota Lennon comes home His son Sean waiting for him To say good night "Christ, you know it ain't easy You know how hard it can be The way things are going They're gonna crucify me" "I read the news today, oh boy." Yoko John exit car 10:50 pm Walk past Chapman Gun pulled In the dark At door of the Dakota Across from Central Park Lennon is gunned down Four bullets to the back John falls to the ground A dream ended  The nig...

My Forgotten Song *** My forgotten song  I have fallen  lost in the stars drifting across  water woods awakening  celestial vapor reflections  lost in wilderness  laughing across  lakes  rosy water In pieces of forgotten songs I see a vision  crapulous civilization Celestial creatures  drink in alleys  lunatics find  wisdom in wine  suffering  children Lonely  soft sands of the past  fall in love  dangerous lawns  well to do houses  television sets  machines of the world  look in their heads  for reason Or the face  of a long-dead relative Forgetting the  silence of the sea Love explosives  silly rockets millions of young  Americans  drifting wandering  college vapor blow up campuses  Non-identity  grooming schools  Blow up televisions  Blow up civilization  Free the dream  blow heads  reason off with  love Fi...

Sinking In The Valley Of Darkness *** So your sinking in the valley of darkness my darlin I know your pain  My night also nothing these terrible evenings by candlelight suffering  Our flowers rot of punishment blinking as we sleep restlessly without dreams  Our rudder drifts aimlessly on river rapids flowing into violent dark seas We murmur confess growing old with each moments passing time Ocean waves crash endlessly flooding the hollow of our bodies flowers Chopping tides of winter singing savage songs in hell we are lost in night Sleepless together we are sucked in the pasts quicksand blind to the moment  So heartsick with crying wings a lost bird abandoned scared I fall A muzzled insect I buzz through dark valleys of dying garden flowers Moon disturbs shivering as life's river rapids break me flowing into dark oceans No longer led by light this blazing death path leads only to endless nothingness  Impermanent night jewels nature's guardians converse in forgo...

Plague Of Ignorance  *** Black clouds appeared in thr sky Due to ignorance, no one listened Canary in the coal mine died Seas were poisoned Crops did not grow Species faded away No one noticed Business as usual  *** Game of profit and power Fixation on empty "selves." Life not seen as precious Lords of nihilism ruled Black clouds blocked sun All was darkness No longer business as usual  *** Many fell sick passed away Fear filled the land People hid from the plague of ignorance There was nowhere to hide They were forced to look inside Within a celestial spring  Life overflowed First tree flowered Nothing fixed  Alll a dream *** Some awoke  Crossed over Some remained asleep No one abandoned Treasure Unconditional Love  Compassion Always within awaiting us An undying sun of Love Our true nature Our birthright  In the illusory dance of life  *** Those whose vision clear Saw the world  Celestial healing Pureland Those blind  Saw a wastel...

Relationships *** Relationships  What good are They? You broke My heart Tore down My door Now exposed Naked before all Feel ugly Depressions  Gonna Fall I knew  This truth Thought  I knew It well Taking  refuge  In others One way Ticket to  Hell Even good Relationships  They pass We all Face Death Alone Under Grass Don't give up Find peace  Within True  Refuge In life Love For All Begins Love  Beyond Worldly Beyond Mundane  True Love Exists On the Spiritual  Plane Wish I could Say Loves an Easy Walk But When I'm in it These Words Are Just Talk *** David Penn Arndt 2022 *** Artwork by Shawna Erback

The Dream Has Passed **** Let's slip away Ship goes down Let sun rise on it's own Into darkness it's the same Foggy harbor misty shore Cold dark crashing waves Salt in my mouth  Our silence  Dream vision is no more Return alone to my refuge  Rough waters ahead  "Highwater rising" Impermanence  The dream   Has Passed *** David Penn Arndt 2022 *** Artwork by RHAOS

Inner Spring Of  Poetry  *** Inner Spring Poetry Comes from silent places Comes on it's own No force of relations Hidden Unspoken Places of the heart Light of spirit Banishes the dark  Behind pain lies beauty  Thorn of the Rose Poetry is naked Wears no clothes It's song is the wind Water Which flows  Earth moves  Sky knows Poetry Reigns down Love Shooting stars Brighten and fade Leaving hearts ajar  Singing  Songs of poetry  Not up for sale Needs no bail Never fixed  Frozen in place Each time you look It has a new face Poetry flies free Soars with wings of a bird Rains Down what's missing  Which needs to be heard Vast as the heavens  Small as grains of sand No words express  The love of poetry Singing Timeless Songs Born of mystery  *** David Penn Arndt 2022 *** Artwork - Silent Poetry by MothersHeart

At Rest Under Valley Slumbers  *** She sits in her rocker knitting He's in the wood shop tinkering  He comes in She says,  "Did you turn the lights out?" Inside he smiles She's said that every night for 50 years *** So many years So many memories  Dreams went by fast Our children grew up Had their own children  Far far far away *** Deep in the  Winter of life My dear  Precious wife     Your always there We hold each other In the night Keeping each other warm  Until mornings sunlight *** We never will Say goodbye Our loves survived  Ravages of time We know in life We've been blessed We lived loved No regrets  *** So when it's time An old Death  Comes a callin Have no sorrow  Let go of us Have no fear For tomorrow  Have thee No worries  We're at peace Enveloped within Warm gentle  Breezes  Protected by  Loving  Spirit At rest Down Under  Valleys  In Beautiful  Peaceful...

Tearing Down Fiery Skies  *** Tearing down Fiery molton  Orange Skies Gazing up at space Watching traces of Shooting stars go by *** Our bodies space Planets and stardust  We travel within being  To places beyond seeing  Spaces of the heart  Our true home *** Silent spaces Where  Love  Arises  Spontaneous  Poetry  Sings Thunder  Lightning  Rhymes  Across Fiery  Molton  Flashing  Orange  Skies *** "Blinded By The Light" *** Cave  Dwellers  Recognizing  Shadow  World On Wall Not Real Scream  Terrified  *** The Sky speaks  *** "Have no fear! Have no fear Relax Relax" *** "Love protects  Let  Love Fill Your  Heart Letting  Go Your Seeds Of Healing  Spontaneously  Grow" *** I Look up in awe At fiery orange overcast Skies Returning to my body smile Space Stars Skies We Are One Dissolving Into The Heart Of The  Sun *** Shine on Dear Fri...

Sitting By The Thames River *** Sitting by the Thames u Under overcast skies Life has changed In ways I don't understand why Old life sheds its skin  In the wind new songs sing Songs letting go of yesterday's sorrow Songs not fearing what will be tomorrow Songs arising from earth a flower Songs healing restoring life's power  Heart opens more with each passing hour  Suffering of before  Clouds  Slowly float by Dissipating  In overcast London Skies  Hearts purpose No longer ignored  Nor denied  By the Thames river Mourning  The one I loved before Only you found a way to unlock  My lonely heart's door  I say farewell love Watching a rusted barge pass by So many years Seems like yesterday I throw your ashes Watch them blow in the breeze Become one with the river Which flows to the sea  I Let you go  Stepping  Into life Anew Leaving You Behind Sitting  By the  Thames  Under  Overcast  Skies *...

Depression  *** Depression  I hear your call You say I'm  Worthless  Soon will  Fall  Depression  Monkey on  My back When least Expected You attack  Depression  When I'm okay You know  How to Blow my  Happiness  Away Depression  You cut  Like a knife Others  Believe  Your lies Take Their  Own  Lives Depression  Behind  Masks  We hide Fearful  Others  May see Our  Suffering  Inside Depression  You do  Bring gifts  Poems  Songs Which  Heal  The  Sick Depression  I know  You will  Pass I Watch  Your  Sand  Fall My  Life's  Hourglass  Depression  It's ok to  Feel bad No need  For shame We won't  Always  Be  Sad Depression  Alas I  See dawn With the light  Of the sun I know Soon  You'll  Be  Gone *** David Penn Arndt 2022 *** ...

Rainforest Beginnings Endings  *** Beginnings We drill  Oil blood Soul of colour  Surveyed  Python watches  Thought mysteries  Heaven phantoms  Millions  We are paintings  Mild Man seen  Siblings wildlife  Magical filters  Resisting you go Rainforest needs others  Forest tells whole story  Go to leopards  Tree mountain  Forest branch  Leopard passion wonder  Scheme descriptions tested Rainforest shines love Endings *** David Penn Arndt 2022 *** Artwork Betty Lou

Ashes to Ashes  *** Ashes to ashes Dust to dust  Car of Life Turns to Rust Life short Life long Before we Know it Lifes  Gone Lived life Lived it well Not sad Can hear the Undertaker's  Bell Deaths real Deaths a fact Life ends No escape  No going  Back Life's a gamble Life's a bet The winner  Loves all Then Dies With No  Regret One thing in life's  Not unclear  Live Love Fully Now All beings Far and near If you love At your Last breath You'll be at Peace With  Death My words  Ain't Morbid My words True Love now Soon Deaths Coming  For You *** David Penn Arndt June 13, 2022 *** Artwork Klimt Life and Death

Sacred Covenant Renewed *** Heard violence  In the wasteland Heard  Abandoned Broken  Children  Sing the Blues *** Saw waters  Disappear  Fading  Sand Tasted  Ocean  Waves Times Ticking For Me  You *** Fell  Down  Black Muddy  River  Questioned  All  I believed  True *** Prayed for  Better  World  Remembered Future children  Saw my daughter Called to Spirit  Praying Dying earth Would be  Healed  Anew *** Heard babies  Crying  Alone  Born in sorrow  Unconditional  Love Crucified Dead body  Abused *** Shattered  Sacred covenant Forgotten Spirit  Great Protector Saw fallen angels  Countless  Mysterious signs Secrets too *** Tasted blood  Smelled ghats  Burning bodies Ganges ghosts  Ancient ones  Said adieu *** Lost natives  Starving high  Arid Andes Skies reigned  Down fire Death bells...

Life's Undertow *** Life was rich  Life was grand   Sailing to Forgotten Distant Lands  Traveled far   Journeyed wide  Searching for  Love  Found It Lives  Inside What did I find I'm not sure  My heart Broke Against Rocky Shores Lived life  My Life  Is gone  Fear I'm Singing Life's  Final  Song Looking back  Wonder  Where did  Love goes As Tides Pulled Me  Below Lifes Undertow ***  David Penn Arndt 2022. *** Artwork Source Unknown

Listen to the Ancient Ones *** Slowly from slumber initiate rise embers glow last nights fire the village asleep filled from the feasting fulfilled by the vision life returns the spirits appeased hunt will be good crops will grow balance restored ***   David Penn Arndt 2022 *** Ayahuasca Shaman, spiritual leader of the Capirona community in Ecuador, a sublime being.

All Empires Fall *** Once upon a time was an empire It fell down the stairs lost its brain Spiritually dead sang in choirs The Minister announced, "Lifes a game."  Children played in mud and slime  Court then judged upon high Criminal penalties for thought crimes  America then gasped one last burp Earth crying then began to pray All life would not pass away Pied Piper's rally begins at noon  He suddenly forgot his flute Goddess arrived too soon  Children took the wrong route Pied Piper he forgot his name Goddess then got lost Beggar children saw the end game  Pied Piper couldn't pay the cost  No one had too much to say They then passed away The Emperor sat upon his throne While the Joker laughed in his face Lost children had no home Of the hero, there was not a trace Emperor flushed his throne Joker then fled in disgrace Children sucked marrow from bones Superman, well, he lost all his power  Villain had nothing to say He then passed away Jezebel ...

Let Me Tell You A Story  ***  Let me tell you a story Bout a species gone crazy Threatening life on earth Our children  Future babies  *** Let me tell you a story Titanic has set sail Better get to the Lifeboats  Our  ship  Soon fails  *** Let me tell you a story Our species must face The sickness within  Or it's  The last thing  We'll  taste *** We tasted life Our future  Is  past Happiness  Good times In this world  Do not Last  *** At root in life  What matters is love We must come together Or our future ends Flowing violent  Rivers of blood *** Blood of all beings  Without exception  On this road  Suffering We are lost  No direction *** Better get off this road Ain't going nowhere friend On highways chasing Wealth and power It's a dead end *** Phoenix can rise Embers and ashes If it don't happen soon What supports life  Crashes *** Said it before Say it again Love ...

Kissing The Sky ***  Ancestors Born  Eggs cracking Up through  Springs frost Visions  Lost Traceless Place  One day Heard  Demons  Landing  Slithering  Beneath the tide  Planets stars  Lined up  Nothing real  Sun did not rise  No dawn The Past  Faded  Sun  Time  Space  Memories  Collapsed Breaking Away  Ancestors  Dancing Echoes faded  Life  Love  Fought and struggled  No soft landing  Demons Origin a black hole  Executioner  Defied the gods  Faces and names  Collapsed Blurred into one  Tried holding onto Forgotten dreams  Let go Free fall  On our knees  We Surrendered  Prayed Kissing  The  Sky  ***  David Penn Arndt 2022. Artwork Erica Wexler

What Would I Do? *** If you were the sky  What would I do? I would be a bird  Fly away with you  If you were the ocean  What would I do? Build me a boat  Sail away on Oceans blue If you were the moon  What would I do? Run naked and wild  I would howl  Up at you If you were lonely What would I do? Introduce you to  My best friend  Winnie the Pooh If you needed to  Laugh  What would I do?  Make Chicken  Sounds and hop Like a kangaroo  In front of you  If you were down  What would I do? Remind you I'm  Your dear friend  Who will always  Be true If you were sick  What would I do? Keep you warm  Loved and fed I would offer  Up my health For you If you were a kiss  What would I do?  You know I could Not help but Kiss you  If I had one wish  What would it be? You'd be friends  Forever with me  If you asked me  For anything  What would I do? ...

Great Rain Sculptor  *** The mountains Your clay The sky  Is your palette  The river Your music Teach me Your song The song that  Brings bird's flight Song that  Brings me life You are you are You are The great  Rain Sculptor  May I Come  Swim in your Pure Waters  sing the song  That brings  bird's flight Sing the song gives me life You are you are You are The great rain Sculptor The great rain Sculptor *** David Penn Arndt 2022 *** Artwork American Fine Arts

What's The Point In Talking? *** Can feel the tide to turning Hear your words burning Telling me what you’ve been doing Thought I was just paranoid But the truth been realized Hasn’t it silent woman   My insides have been torn up Guts are thrown up Eyes are bleeding   Before your words stilled my mind Then my heart felt the lies A fool I did not listen   My dreams have crumbled False expectations have tumbled Truth is painful   Dances danced too often Think I’d learn a lesson Instead of acting your script   Now I see your crying I’m fighting here trying Not to slip into your grip   I can see beyond your tears What I see is fear Want no part of it   My ears hear you pleading Know what you’re needing Let someone else live the breaking   Go your own way Couldn’t bother when I needed you to stay What does it matter now?   I’m gonna walk right on by Push your ghost off my shoulders Woman how you've haunted my nights   Now that honest words ...

River Bottom Waking Up *** River bottom  Moonlit night Grooming silence God broken-down Whispering writing poems Rides on reading Whitman Forgotten songs drifting Children laugh All living creatures dreaming Mountain Buddha Lord of Rebirth Ecstasy Blaze of heat Serenity immense milky way Relaxing alright forever Perfect emptiness River bottom Waking up *** David Penn Trinley Arndt 2022. *** Image Luke Mancini

A Bed Made For Two *** She lies asleep on her bed  A bed made for two he broke her heart made her hard broke the trust  they held to be true neither was perfect he stepped over the line his self his only interest showed no respect now written words of love  have lost their meaning she sleeps like a little girl  on a bed made for two he watches her empty wondering what he’ll do shes a beautiful woman she will have a beautiful  relationship someday on a bed made for two but he forgot who she was their dreams together now lay broken she does not want him anymore he gave her reason for this why did he hurt her? why does it have to end?  Tell me who has the answer? *** David Penn Arndt 2022 *** Image Source Unknown

Underwater Caves *** Underwater caves Oceans waves  We move with  The currents breath Savor the flavor  The body it quavers  It asks no favors  Of the dark night In waves I go under  My body asunder  The dark Waters Receive me The Moon it shines down It shines down in the night In this dark night It's brightening It's brightening It's frightening It's frightening It's lightning  Piercing the night Oceans waves Return to the caves  The heart caves Of the night In waves I go under  Ny body asunder  The dark waters  Receive me The moon it shines down  It shines down in the night In this dark night *** David Penn Arndt 2022 *** Image Source Cherese Cobb

Heart Stays Open *** I choose to trust  Keep my heart open Each time I do I find myself broken  I meet someone new I see in their face  Someone I think I know With whom I relate I've trusted many My Heart blown up  I keep on trusting Haven't had enough I have no choice Keeping open my heart If I close it once  I might remain in the dark How is it in life?  We seem designed to love.  Yet, when we come together.  We hurt each other and run  High above Earth Look down and question  I look in another's eyes See an empty reflection?  I'll keep trusting Without fear see no other way  Even when my  heart is crushed I wake up Do my best To love  Another  Day *** David Penn Arndt 2022

When The Revolution Comes *** I'm sitting here waiting waiting for something I think won't ever come I'm sitting here waiting for a star to come down but you know I fear  I could die here waiting waiting for something  to turn it around sitting here  waiting wasting time instead of  taking a look what's here  what's around if the revolution comes  it will come as a song if the revolution comes  it will come as a song I got up  Left the mountain I left that lofty  lofty peak got back down to   good green earth to a place  I could  touch my feet I got rid of all my  books by Hegel I got rid of Marx  ideology too I didn't go out  buy the I Ching I stopped going  away for  weekends  looking to  become  enlightened if the revolution comes  it will come as a song if the revolution comes  it will come as a song We could  write a song   that never ended we could sing...