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Current mood: fermented

Emphatica
(A Poem-Prose Written by Martin Eden on 19 August 2008)

What competition reigns in dismal days
But Olympics between nations
In one world one dream
That search for the dollar sign
In each and every event

Who’s lost the amateur status
The one where greed is not needed
Risk doping, risk ethnic ideal
Cover-up political motive
Yet still we get together

What of the losers
What of the countries without medals
The biggest may not be the best
Losing gracefully, the real friend
Let’s holler for that sole Greek marathoner

? Martin Eden

Current mood: thankful

My Picture In The Rain
(A Poem-Prose written by Martin Eden 19-21 July 2008)

I await that final bell
Seemingly unable to extricate myself
From that constant revision of my life
With not a whimper from my dreams

I try to separate my night from day
But the darkness prevails
Neither winner or loser
I feel what could have been over what I’ve done

I’ve risked and cared
I’ve fought and run
I’ve tired and rallied
As often as done

Yet I’ve lived well beyond the norm
Done things to integrate and reach the dawn
I’ve seen the light and lost the focus
And came back again for more

It’s time to press beyond what I know
The door has opened and I step in
There is trial and error beyond
And that forgetfulness of life midst creativity

? Martin Eden

Current mood: peaceful

The Strangest Day
(A Poem-Prose written by Martin Eden on 16 June 2008)

I try to fight the strangest day
But it comes without warning to show the way
The thing that’s said
Which causes a frown
The passion unguarded
That’s quietly noted

Rain, rain that soothes yet keeps you inside
With the inactivity affecting the mind
You see the winter
As it rises within you
You long for the summer that was
And dwell in the uncertainty of the next

Yet we all walk that path that says
To hell with it all, let’s rally yet cry
Let’s set out to live
What we’ve not yet tried
Let’s be who we are
Despite the politeness!

? Martin Eden

Current mood: tired

One Dark Moment
(A Poem-Prose written by Martin Eden 26&27May2008)

One dark moment
Came with the memory of someone close
Closer than most
It welled up inside with such force, surprise
After countless sleepless nights
And many an indoored sunny day

It voiced its tiredness of the fight
There followed by only the end times
The feeling dwelt longer than thought was used to
Fueled by seemingly unmatchable past achievements, non-dream
And the stillness of a solitary life
Kept relentlessly busy for far too long

Hey, one dark moment!

? Martin Eden

Soul Trike
[A Poem-Prose/Ditty written by Martin Eden 18February2008]

i woz appily ridin me soul trike
daily …
2 d materialist centre
2 enlarge me carbon footprint
… per instrukkshun
wen coz me …
body 4got 2 eat
mind fell in2 subkonshuz
spirit gel’d wid eeter
… dat ill-useive sub stance
‘kreeativity sparx’ flew everyware
howd dey kno i woz seekin?
fascinatin!

? Martin Eden