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Current mood: Aware <|;^)) Journey Through The Nows
(A Poem-Prose written by Martin Eden on 27 January 2010)

I knew naught of the life I led
As I stumbled through it
The hearts and minds
Of pain and learning

It’s perfection I sought
Or at least I thought
But in effect it was solace
And acceptance

What I got was to serve the purpose
Of the shifting sands of emotional oblivion
And within a cloud of alcohol, nicotine and sometime marijuana
I came to see my dream

The one I had in comfort once
Where no-one accepted it
Yet like a recovery-Lawson* I did
And freedom somehow grew

Still the memories flood the empty spaces
Assembling the life one led
And a pang of misunderstood regret
Dis-colours the purpose of the journey through the nows

© Martin Eden
* Henry Lawson was a famed Australian Poet and Alcoholic.

Current mood: INsightFUL <|;^)) Kontrivance
(A Poem-Prose written by Martin Eden on 24 January 2010)

A kontrivance linked by hinges fell open in layers
Of various shapes and sizes
In an array of colours
Each a door to the whole
Which fell into oblivion once
And twice into sainthood
But ‘What the hell!’, she said
‘Even Christ never made a second coming.’
Though the legacy of insight and challenge remain
And how so creation by a series of linkages
Ever changing
Though the disparate parts were always there
Still are for that matter
Which will seem to matter
And then not
Kontrivance

© Martin Eden

Current mood: blissful

Happy Me
(A Poem-Prose written by Martin Eden o n 22 January 2010)

I run the gauntlet, happy me
Oblivious to the cut down poppies
For I am not one as yet
Though I’d like to be
To stand above the multitudes
To see what it is they follow
Though they don’t want to know

© Martin Eden