A few dozen poems writen during my un-medicated daze

[Geoff-Allen]

Karma

In a very real sense this message is not new
Just one soul's tale of how it finally got through
A belief is an idea you hope is quite true
Allow it to become more real to you

There are many laws which govern our lives
From men in skyscrapers to bees in their hives
One law is karma, you are free to ignore it
If you want a picture, I will try to draw it

The law of karma is a complete mystery to most
They would rather believe in UFO's or a ghost
The law of gravity keeps our little planet spinning
While karma keeps track of losing and winning

If you hate something you only destroy yourself
So why not just leave those poisons on the shelf
Love your enemies - I wouldn't suggest it's easy
I promise it won't make you unbearably queasy

Send out kind thoughts to those who need it most
You can do this as easily as putting jam on your toast
Whatever you send out will return to you one day
Try to bear this in mind whether at work or at play

Karma flows smoothly from one lifetime to the next
This is why we humans are so often perplexed
By events and calamities that defy any explanation
You may find the answer in another incarnation

Like any other law, you are free to ignore it
Every action is the result of another before it
It closely resembles Einstein's theory of relativity
It pervades each and every human activity

I wish you all the best on your karmic travels
And as the mystery of your existence unravels
Think about me as I am thinking about you
You may find it quite an enjoyable thing to do

 

[Geoff-Allen]

Self-portrait in watercolours

Never before in the history of man
Has anyone been as crazy as I am
Never before since the dawn of time
Has anyone had a mind as warped as mine

I'm always coming right out of left field
My eyes are wide open and they never yield
I lost all my marbles many years ago
I walk around slowly as my thoughts glow

I always have my head up in the clouds
This keeps me away from all of the crowds
I happily play with madness and insanity
I have very little time for everyday reality

I laugh at myself and all of my flaws
My head echoes to the distant applause
My thoughts wander all over the place
They dart and they spark and usually race

Most of my life has been spent
Living in a bag full of cement
Most of my life has been just dream
Travelling around on a magic light beam

There is no difference as I now see
Between madness and ultimate reality
There is no difference as you will find
Between a closed and opened mind

I am the man who forgot his own name
I am the one who lives inside the flame
I am a chalk drawing in your mind
I am a guide for all of the blind

I was told by sailors and sold by the sea
I was cold in summer and warmed internally
I was changed by the light from the new moon
I came into the world with a wooden spoon

I am lost and don't wish to be found
The wheels keep spinning around and around
Endlessly, silently, mystically onward
Don't grieve for me. Just look skyward

You may see me strolling down the avenue
I might even wave or smile toward you
If you wave back I'll know who you are
Another visitor from a twinkling star

 

[Geoff-Allen]

Remind me to post more out of older.html ... on my hard-drive ...

 

[Geoff-Allen]

Dream sequence number twelve

Life is really something of a mystery
Many people love to study history
I used to believe in all of the extra moments of my life
Until I started to learn how to avoid most of the strife

Speaking of mysteries -

41 Quotes On Mystery - John Paul Caponigro – Digital Photography Workshops, DVDs, eBooks

 

[Geoff-Allen]

Hobbies

I like to paint onions with bright red faces
I send them to people in various places
They cut and they slice them into a bowl
Or throw them downstairs to watch them roll

 

[Geoff-Allen]

Perceptions

People tell me I'm insane
Because of chemicals in my brain
They don't know they cannot see
That I am living in eternity

 

[Geoff-Allen]

The Modern Mystic

I spend my days in quiet contemplation
My soul belongs to no single nation
My heart radiates love and kindness to all around
I fill my mind with a single, magic, silent sound

I have no need for noisy entertainment
I seek to free people from their containment
I sometimes laugh at nothing at all
I watch the autumn leaves as they fall

I sometimes seem a million miles away
I try to visit but I cannot stay
My spirit wanders through time and space
A smile is never very far from my face

I sing and chant in the middle of the day
I can always find games for myself to play
My mind drifts through space and time
I am a character in a nursery rhyme

You may see my in your street one day
I might not have very much to say
You may regard me as somewhat odd
Do not worry, I'm just talking to God

 

[Geoff-Allen]

Decisions Decisions

My doctor told me I was mad
I said mate they're all so sad
Then he told me all about the cost
How all the little people got lost

I listened to his tragic story
What happened to the ancient glory
Outsmarted by their own inventions
Despite their very best intentions

Now it's too late to say goodbye
Silent objects pierce the sky
Haunted by their own illusions
Strangers talk of old solutions

 

[Geoff-Allen]

The Modern World

Have we grown too sensible to believe in magic
Are we all too tired to dream - how tragic
Will we maintain this frantic acceleration
Could we ever reverse all the disintegration

Many men in many places have their own serene faces
They see with crystal clarity all of our disparity
Listen closely to them and hear their pearls of wisdom
Instead of all this chaos they dwell in the eternal kingdom

 

[Milton Platt]

Thanks for sharing your poetry with the rest of us, Goeff-Allen!!!

I always enjoy it when you share your writing.

I'm going to send you a private message on this board, so check for that............

 

[Geoff-Allen]

Thanks for sharing your poetry with the rest of us, Goeff-Allen!!!

I always enjoy it when you share your writing.

I'm going to send you a private message on this board, so check for that............

Glad you are enjoying the poems!

I write for my own "therapy" - if anyone else enjoys them that's just an absolute bonus!

Thanks for the support.

 

[Geoff-Allen]

Opinions

For everything that you
Hold to be certain to you
There is an alternate view
Equally likely to be true
So, whatever you do
Try not to turn blue
You haven't got a clue
This is nothing new
And I bid you adieu

 

[Geoff-Allen]

Some of Sunstone's poems are also excellent! IMHO

 

[Geoff-Allen]

Much too nice

I don't insult folks if they're dumb
That might just make their feelings numb
I never dare to criticise
I try my best to harmonise

 

[Geoff-Allen]

The Valley of the Dead

I walked into the valley of the dead
No evil did I fear
I walked into the valley of the dead
A million voices did I hear

I was deafened by the noise
And quite blinded by the glow
I watched in silent wonder
And reflected myself into the shallow

My thoughts were stolen and converted
Every idea became inverted
I wandered toward a distant city
Where all the people laughed so pretty

They greeted me with open eyes
I felt that I had won first prize
They kept no secrets and no lies
Every day was a fresh surprise

I walked out of the valley of the dead
Somehow I felt it was quite okay
I remember all the people in that valley
And send them a smile at least once a day

 

[Geoff-Allen]

A story at Nightime

I saw a ghost in a jar of sand,
He asked me if I had any jokes,
I said I have no fear of candles,
So he took me off to meet his folk

 

[Geoff-Allen]

Private Thoughts

Things that I would never say
Pop into my mind every single day
These thoughts sit down and stay a while
They must be stored in some secret file

 

[Geoff-Allen]

Random Verses about nothing in particular

I have become the 14th dimension of reality
You cannot begin to imagine what I see in front of me
I am the bone damage of the entire universe
Do you take this life for better or for worse?

I talk to 14 medical experts each day
They sometimes don't have very much to say
I walk to the shops and I walk home again
All will be revealed but I'm not sure when

My doctor performs amazing medical tricks on me
As we eat bananas on an island in the big city
I was polishing my life just the other day
When down came a spider and dragged me away

My soul is pregnant with a poem
But then my mind decides to roam
Across the bridge that's made of foam
Landing somewhere near Paris or Rome

In the individual moments of my life
There is no trouble and no strife
In the individual cells of my physical form
There is enough energy to keep the world warm

The patterns of reality are hard to recognise
Microscopic entities undetectable by eyes
Inch by inch they generate everything you see
But how does one explain the existence of you and me?

Life is a movement between all the opposite ways
A trance-like state in which nobody really behaves
Questions surface from subterranean regions of our minds
If it gets too much, you can always close the blinds

I know what it's like to be crazy
I know what it's like to be sane
I know what it's like to have
A billion thoughts flooding your brain

I used to believe in the miniature availability of life
While trying to balance a dozen or more peas on my knife
My individual brain cells hardly ever agree to work together
But every now and then thoughts tickle me just like a feather

In the amazing crispness of each morning
You turn on the telly and it's always boring
Opening the back door you light up a ***
And wonder if this day will be less of a drag

Suddenly I am the ten lifeforms of the future
In these moments I tend to forget my own nature
If there are no more moments to contemplate
I'll just go outside and dance until eight

When this sentimental journey is finally over
No more rain falls upon the salty ocean
And the distance which this spinning planet may cover
Is determined by a new kind of sideways motion

 

[Geoff-Allen]

Identity Crisis

I am a magnetic point of light
I am an insect in a field of snow
I fight to set things right
My thoughts begin to glow

I call myself the ancient warrior
I am a knight in borrowed armour
I crawl upon this icy land
Sparks fly out from my hand

I am shattered and reconstructed
Every pathway seems disconnected
Reality dissolves as I grab it
Like some careless alien bandit

I am a horse with no rider
I am a wizard without a spell
I am a rock without a spider
I am a bucket in the wishing well

Ideas and possibilities flower
In a staggering electric shower
Endless words and nameless ways
Fill the air with ghostly haze

I am not worried by this sight
It arrives on its nightly flight
I wait in quiet expectation
I welcome it with hesitation

I am a rope twisted and cut
I am priest in a tiny hut
I am sun without a planet
I am a freely spinning magnet

Madness never comes too soon
I fill the oceans on the moon
Where is my name and number
Questions vanish in timeless slumber

These four walls cannot hide me
With a million words to guide me
Taking every moment forward
Free to spend the full reward

 

[Geoff-Allen]

A few more poems and links -

Schizophrenia