posted at 08/17/10 - 05:51 PM

Is Everyagain poetry or philosophy?
I would say both.
How can this be?
Everyagain is a new tablet, so toast!

posted at 07/29/10 - 02:42 AM

Condense the work we see and cannot hear
For the lofty ritual is not so pure
And the sun cannot stand your leave
And the keys do not unlock your grief

So with a bow do you nudge its wing
The spiritual calling for you to sing
To see the omen of your persistence
Shapely blinded by its irreverence

Undo the grasping sucking scald of suffocation
Shades of grass blew dead for your information
Your breath seeks to slow to a halting cry
And the time that passed can’t justify why

Halo circles the beaming lights and frets
As the onward journey ponders the closing sets
The fabric of absolution broken by whim
And the deepest greenest ocean can you swim

Apologetically inspired by the changing winds
The gray torn mast droops the final rinds
Water runs through the new rings of fire
Duly given to those you inspire

posted at 06/29/10 - 02:31 AM

Yearly surely beneath above somewhere lingers daffodil raindrops

posted at 04/20/10 - 03:02 PM

Darker than usual and soaking it up like a sponge
Step by step I seek toward satisfaction and am alert with my visual guns
Self-conscious and strident my destination awaits
Sacramental and innocent and naïve walking down the lonely straits
Finding my comfort zones in the orange universe of wherever that may be today
I shall seek to impress the people I meet for them to never shrug but stay
Day by day a certain dynamic begins to form itself on and around occurrence
My mango cheeks seek toward finding a fit an outsider would admire with assurance
And in the spotted and rambunctious day I find myself alone once again
To indulge in my music and my anger and get necessarily lost from within
The climate change has made my mood and desires and premonitions fully adapt
I may star the show or never speak a word in what become social but solitary acts
Vulnerability pinpointed and guarded as though the gem of the world were inside
I chart my own course and base dreams in pits I have suffered while staying alive


page 39, Down section, Everyagain

posted at 04/14/10 - 02:18 PM

In the hollow humid concrete place
Do you dream away the wasted days
Spent freely in open shades
Memories in your thumping heart of bass
To reflect and to embark
Shelving fear and doubt
Yet insecure and stout

In the hollow humid concrete place
A lifetime story is written
The years stack on one
That will become like hail
On all that was made and lived
For the sun blinds the stars
That are around as well


page 13, Fall section, Everyagain

posted at 04/10/10 - 12:53 AM

Hi :)

It has been one year today (it is still April 9 here in California) since the release of Everyagain. And what a day it was!

Cheers and thanks to you all!!

On this 1st anniversary of Everyagain: Idyllic Cadence for the New Century, I thought it might be proper to let you all know that I have uploaded the entire book (minus the paintings and pictures, prologue and epilogue) onto this FiledBy site. Just scroll down and check out all the 'Author Documents.' They are sequenced perfectly as found in the book itself.

The poem 'Traveler' was in my head today. Fun fact.

Finally, and for the first time, I will showcase a new poem...(well, actually I wrote it on April 13, 2008)...on this site. Is a new book in the works? You are getting warm!


Age of Spirituality

Welcome to this new century
It has come for you
And all in thoughts and tongues
Prophecy is coming true
The eclipse of all values
Old will take on new
For who is God to you?

But deeper this age becomes
Sadness the grown child feels
As all humanity peels
An eye to core and correct
Manquakes of the earth
Minding your business today
The Age of Spirituality awakes

posted at 04/02/10 - 01:56 AM

The ravenous day
The lit night
The incandescent moon
The peaceful slumber
The glorious wake
The tender meal
The gracious converse
The beaming sun
The heartfelt fun
The simple love

The ravenous day
Fill her up
The lit night
Light her up
The flowing water
The still wine
The unwound yesterday
The new today
The soon tomorrow
The loving unity

The ravenous day
The expansive beach
The perfect warmth
The gentle breeze
The fluid music
The grazing memories
The amassed peace
The slow pace
The living beauty
The untold love


page 97, Fallen Awake section, Everyagain

posted at 03/11/10 - 10:36 PM

compose yourself
it may never happen
when it does regret follows
or a world dreaded by most
but nature keeps pushing
can you resist?
if the other side retracts
will you turn on nature?

such happens
a fate in the eyes of all
thus, a fate in you
or can one stand strong alone?
this day will never come
the day society wins


page 23, Fall section, Everyagain

posted at 03/08/10 - 04:47 PM

Out
Right out
Do your duty to all
The vast array of something else
Is for you to explore

Find
To find
What you think they will like
Abandon all your lofty dreams
And just play on the psych

Act
For act
Win awards for your deeds
The last of things to be today
Is yourself in the breeze

Be
Just be
Who it is you produced
You might just want to show your face
Please do not be seduced

Live
And live
A solid base of past
You may want to shake up the lies
Yet you will fall too fast

Fly
High fly
And be all you can be
Take down the pills of ecstasy
For everyone to see

Show
Real show
Has even you convinced
You are who you will always be
And you need not revince

Here
Us here
We all have you to thank
Since you became an image slave
We can go to the bank


page 53, Down section, Everyagain




Harrowingly beautiful is the green distance
After the misty breaking ocean waves
Amidst a setting sun to the west
And looking south abreast
And sitting with a glow
Warm with a breeze slow
Freeze this place in time
I could forever unwind
I cannot but call this a good life
The Media Religion calls it all strife


page 57, Down section, Everyagain

posted at 03/01/10 - 03:52 PM

There
Did you see?
There, again
That figurine
Oh, but a slick cat lay near
Darkness tints the twilight curtain
And a strange noise faint as its breath
Cometh and go with ominous ease
Pounding
There!
Again, did you see?
It is black as though night were day
It sped through this scene
Taking no time, but it all
This figurine is subtle
This figurine is everywhere
Is it at my leg?
I hear it!
Do you see?
A multitude of senses for a flash
Diamond rays as blackness lingers
Faster and faster
I am imagining now
Oh, this night just grew darker
Are you there?
I can’t see
Hey!
Now I am alone too


page 15, Fall section, Everyagain

posted at 02/23/10 - 04:28 PM

Dirt a jewel
In the chains of lust
The golden day
Brings just must

Transplanted through time
The giving unwinds
Less for rest
They come to dine

Hardened plate of finality
Eating the bitter worth
More they demand
And claim the dirt of earth

Catastrophic conditions
On a beautiful day
Becoming of the baby lawn
Is up to the dwellers at Bay


page 35, Down section, Everyagain

posted at 02/17/10 - 03:54 PM

That Was Random








































































page 9, Fall section, Everyagain

posted at 02/16/10 - 02:22 AM

I am riddled with emotion

posted at 02/13/10 - 06:02 PM

I love you and I care for you

posted at 02/12/10 - 10:35 PM

Into it all you dive
To taste and see and touch
And lift yourself high above
The gracious little tiffs
The lasting fragrance
Of love the lasted length
Simmer lure the sweet
Song of roses to greet
The new maple life
The serenade of sun
Feel the dancing air

Flow through wind
Hearts thump together
Circling sung lingering
Taps of subtle smiles
Leaps off water shine
Flowing abreast wine

posted at 02/10/10 - 03:16 AM

You are inspiring

Be Gentle: Everyagain

Taps of subtle smiles

One Love

posted at 01/12/10 - 01:09 AM

Initially I seek to walk
To graze the plains with unbothered feathers abound
In a state of perpetual and comforted determination
Yet a patience unparalleled in the modern day
Stepping toward a different place daily
My trip is at one with itself
And where I am
And where I am going
And where I have been
All mesh into understanding
That I walk toward something
A something excitingly new
Yet dreadfully poignant
An array of possibilities
As if the world were not so small
For the world of the mind
Challenges the vastness of the universe
And the experiences of all
Conquer the reigning allotropy
For each step brings further peace
With my one with all
And deriving the simple pleasures of life
Is the easy breezy flow of my spirit
As I continue to walk

And when the clouds roll in
May it pour hard and loud and long
And when despair settles in
May it stay and grow to its Minerva
For the grind of all our time
May seem tepid when divine
But all comes together still
And the heated day begins to chill
And the sun feels good on my skin
Spiritual line to draw straight
But save the pens for the pad

And as I continue to walk
I wonder if the straight is split
And if then will ignite a switch
To a something new and truly new
And as I initially set to walk
Will a new initial emerge
And scream for the old purge?
Well I walk right on anyway
Today is today and only today
Flipped the future of possibility
Adaptability training encrypted
Barefoot and warm and smiling
With all the cares in the world
Walking as I set to do
Slow to judge and slow to walk
Is a split but perhaps not the
In knowing my beloved carriers
Of course my feet will never tire
Devoting time to dreamland tranquility
In the wake of today
Standing as I walk
And walking as I float
No split to a feather with a pen
We are here all along, forevermore


page 87, Fallen Awake section, Everyagain

posted at 01/12/10 - 01:05 AM

wave to the end
it shields you
one step different
murky fall, bland wave
to creep approach
is the end apparent?
gazing timelessly
my son, time does not stop

wave to the end
slowly leap across
leaves tender this black barrier
fall accompanies forever
the world ends here
don’t wave, the end is gone


page 27, Fall section, Everyagain

posted at 01/05/10 - 02:53 PM

If you scroll down this wall, you will see a blog dated 9/30/2009, where I wrote about my experience at Pegasus Coffee on Bainbridge Island in the Puget Sound; in particular a run-in with Alice in Chains' old band manager named Rob.

Well, I just stumbled upon some artifacts from that lovely trip to Seattle, and I found something I had written about what Rob had said to me. He said a lot happened at Pegasus with Layne Staley and Andrew Wood of Mother Love Bone.

How cool is that? I found myself there? A Wikipedia search I did on Andrew Wood confirms he used to live on Bainbridge - and Pegagus is like THE art spot on that island. And if you know the song "Would?" by Alice in Chains, you know it is a classic and one of their best - and also a tribute to Andrew Wood, who, like Layne, tragically died of a heroin overdose.

I'm still pretty amazed with this little story.

posted at 01/05/10 - 10:07 AM

Cold and crisp as that type of day
A coming winter’s changing land
Skies form to a soft yellow’s gray
Motivated by that at hand

They were so far from reach
So much a sweltering dream
Any and all to breach
To plant a seed and redeem

Hot and bright as that type of day
Warm and wet as that type of night
Becoming the desired may
Petrified to get it just right

Aware and left out in the heat
A child resurrected within
From others yielding to retreat
Beyond learning how to fit in

To those loathed in the past
For mutual weakness or substance
The change has occurred fast
Credited understanding this instance

The great society bounds
Insecure on all levels
The costume party of clowns
Lasts to show hidden bevels


page 49, Down section, Everyagain

posted at 01/03/10 - 01:22 PM

Condense the work we see and cannot hear
For the lofty ritual is not so pure
And the sun cannot stand your leave
And the keys do not unlock your grief

So with a bow do you nudge its wing
The spiritual calling for you to sing
To see the omen of your persistence
Shapely blinded by its irreverence

Undo the grasping sucking scald of suffocation
Shades of grass blew dead for your information
Your breath seeks to slow to a halting cry
And the time that passed can’t justify why

Halo circles the beaming lights and frets
As the onward journey ponders the closing sets
The fabric of absolution broken by whim
And the deepest greenest ocean can you swim

Apologetically inspired by the changing winds
The gray torn mast droops the final rinds
Water runs through the new rings of fire
Duly given to those you inspire


page 83, Fallen Awake section, Everyagain

posted at 12/30/09 - 05:12 PM

There is a wall
That is built
Reason to all
Made of guilt

It is a maze
To wonder why
Internal gaze
Standing by

Trust is plain
Trust is will
Lust has gained
As the pill

More than seventy years ago
The wall began to show
Even after your birth
It was meant to have its girth
Building up over time
Deceitful and sublime
Unless another true
Came along for you
Perhaps it is fate
But the wall would break away

There is a thing
Called the end
It only brings
It does not send

Match to break
One to cope
Placid lake
Losing hope

But in time
You will see
All the signs
That set you free


page 11, Fall section, Everyagain



In the hollow humid concrete place
Do you dream away the wasted days
Spent freely in open shades
Memories in your thumping heart of bass
To reflect and to embark
Shelving fear and doubt
Yet insecure and stout

In the hollow humid concrete place
A lifetime story is written
The years stack on one
That will become like hail
On all that was made and lived
For the sun blinds the stars
That are around as well


page 13, Fall section, Everyagain



Long awaits whatever
True plan breakable
More time less desired
Keep yourself sane
Eat from what they give
Do not claim independence
For it is unacceptable
But the understanding in you

Under a dark cloud
So long provides comfort
Epiphany to resent
Temptation loses again
Stay the course
Do you understand?


page 17, Fall section, Everyagain



Related
Grown apart
Wings to fly
We deny
And time rules
Here and now
Events dictate circumstance
And our willingness
To move

Alas
It is too late
You felt it coming
It becomes now and forever
You did not say goodbye
You stayed away


page 21, Fall section, Everyagain

posted at 12/18/09 - 09:42 AM

Everyagain is now being sold in the Capitola Book Café. Megan was helpful in getting Everyagain on their shelf, in the poetry section. Fun fact - Everyagain contains two photos taken myself; the first one captures a sunset and the last one displays a sunrise (there is a subcurrent in Everyagain, as it starts in the evening, takes you through the dusk and the night, and ends just after dawn the next day), both from the same vantage point - atop the 'jewel box,' looking southeast toward Moss Landing; with downtown Capitola in the foreground and the water of the Monterey Bay in the background.

Capitola Book Café
1475 41st Avenue
Capitola, CA 95010-2999
(831) 462-4415
capitolabookcafe.com - (if you type 'everyagain' into their search bar, there is a link where you can buy Everyagain from them via Internet).

posted at 12/08/09 - 04:26 AM

Midnight hours
Yea, we tested free
Stacked and ours
And turned away

Yea, we the fore chosen
We stay up late at night
And cannot go to bed
For what lies ahead


page 7, Fall section, Everyagain

posted at 11/27/09 - 03:59 AM

Sometimes
Sometimes always
Are into thinking it through
As the roots of redwoods

Sometimes
Sometimes always
Said true
And waited

Thought to think
About all it means
A matter of sometimes a few seconds to come back to that groove
The groove

To keep the groove
From what was heard
From someone
Their importance as much

You hear
The seconds for you
To decide
To come back to that groove

Sometimes
Sometimes always
Halting abruption
In a new something

page 33, Down section, Everyagain



Slow
Just let the mood set
Just let the blood flow
Just let the world roll
Loosen up in this
This natural world
This bliss

The paradox is there
In every single care
A dare
To bear
To bare
To scare
The bliss aware

page 43, Down section, Everyagain



Inclined fun situated rendered weather girls dance true in gold beauty
Uninformed truest fickle dusty lovely serenade in chambers of majesty
Yearly surely beneath above somewhere lingers daffodil raindrops
Inward and warm deserving reaching hoping into gorgeous becoming
Everlasting graceful gentle rewarding touch lifting curses at malarial ease
Compounded revamping incedingly white fluffy dreams outlasting wake

page 95, Fallen Awake section, Everyagain

posted at 11/25/09 - 02:10 AM

In
Or out

Out is in
And in is out

In
Or out
Stakes play the game
Predictive decision
For forgetting shame
Forever vision
Of who is to blame

In
Or out
Future plain
Losing doubt
Forgetting pain
Enjoying rain
Forever

You in
Or out


page 71, Fallen Awake section, Everyagain

posted at 11/23/09 - 04:32 AM

I was on the FiledBy home page today, leisurely browsing through the 'Most Viewed Authors' page, and was surprised and pleased to notice that I was the 66th most viewed author on this site! I just wanted to thank you all so much for your continued interest in Everyagain, and for all your encouragement and support!!

Much love,
John

posted at 11/10/09 - 03:53 AM

Embellished and spewing your forthright brain
Tower of all things turns to pain
Listening up in the halls of thrash
Generation of preempting so rash
Under deserted quilts of hopes and dreams
Lay your dianthus of all smart schemes
Ignited and united as you so see
Play at orchestrated sheep to please
Twist and let free the captive lead
Mortally curious of our lives once dead
Insistent and ambitious as the hanging moon
You live to always think it will end too soon

page 19, Fall section, Everyagain

posted at 09/30/09 - 10:21 PM

Cheers to the new Alice In Chains album, 'Black Gives Way to Blue'

...I might add the enormous inspiration of this band on my ten plus years penning what has now found itself inside a book, Everyagain. A new Alice In Chains album? I'm speechless. It clearly is the new century. I was asked by an audience member, at Pegasus on Bainbridge, who my inspirations are. I read him the two-sentence Everyagain epilogue, which says much can be learned from everyone. From there, I derive my inspirations. But I couldn't so smoothly and completely answer this gentleman until acknowledging Layne Staley and Alice In Chains for their momentous impact on myself and, ultimately, Everyagain.

He started to cry, and told me he used to manage the band. He told me, on this day, June 14, 2009, "Keep doing what you're doing. Keep doing what you're doing."

Much love

posted at 09/30/09 - 10:18 PM

Cheers to the new Alice In Chains album, 'Black Gives Way to Blue'

...I might add the enormous inspiration of this band on my ten plus years penning what has now found itself inside a book, Everyagain. A new Alice In Chains album? I'm speechless. It clearly is the new century. I was asked by an audience member, at Pegasus on Bainbridge, who my inspirations are. I read him the two-sentence Everyagain epilogue, which says much can be learned from everyone. From there, I derive my inspirations. But I couldn't so smoothly and completely answer this gentleman until acknowledging Layne Staley and Alice In Chains for their momentous impact on myself and, ultimately, Everyagain.

He started to cry, and told me he used to manage the band. He told me, on this day, June 14, 2009, "Keep doing what you're doing. Keep doing what you're doing."

Much love

posted at 08/04/09 - 03:22 AM

Everyagain is now available in the 'Poetry' section of Hicklebee's, the last remaining independent bookseller in the city of San Jose, CA - to the best of my knowledge. Cheers to that! Ask for Ann(e?) if you are cruising in for a copy. I think she has read some of it.

Hicklebee's
1378 Lincoln Ave
San Jose, CA 95125
Tel (408) 292.8880
Toll free (888) 898.0093
Fax (408) 292.6233
E-mail hicklebees@hicklebees.com

Hicklebee's Store Hours:
Monday thru Sat 10:00am - 5:30pm
Thursday 10:00am - 8:00pm
Sunday 12:00pm - 4:00pm

It is about three dollars more to place an order online to Hicklebee's; go here:

http://hicklebees.booksense.com/NASApp/store/Search;jsessionid=bacpSvjY7ADx9-ctxFKls

posted at 07/31/09 - 12:52 PM

I decided on whim and passion to take a train to the Seattle, Washington area - a place I had never been. I arrived at night, and by late afternoon the following day, June 14, 2009, I had taken the ferry from Seattle to Bainbridge Island and was presenting Everyagain at Pegasus Coffee House. I really enjoyed myself there, and I met wonderful people. I even sold a signed copy :) The following evening, I presented Everyagain at the Trabant Chai Lounge in the University District.

Beyond San Jose, Seattle was the first city visited in the ongoing Everyagain book tour. I recently took a trip to the Los Angeles area, but I did not check out open mics. I was too busy bodysurfing! Who knows when or where Everyagain will find itself being presented to an audience? Certainly not me. I will try posting future developments as they happen, hopefully without a month-and-a-half delay as with this post.

Until then, peace and inner peace

posted at 06/21/09 - 02:33 PM

On June 5, 2009, I held the first Everyagain book event at the Almaden Library, in San Jose. I was the guest speaker to a group limited to the ages of between 13 and 18, though this is not necessarily my "target audience." About thirty people attended.

I heard a lot of great feedback, and I thank you all for your words and thoughts. One comment that struck me as awesome was when a young lady said she has read the poem, entitled "The Wall," about 20 times and each time it has meant something different to her. I am so excited to hear things like that :) I had a blast and I thank all who attended.