Ragged Rhymes by Harold Amoroso
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Ragged Rhymes
By
Harold Amoroso
ILLUSTRATIONS BY JENNIFER
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Harold Amoroso
Double-Humper Publications
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Autumn
Swirling, curling up the street
yellow, red and maple leaves.
Chilly breezes whip around
so turn your collars up.
Breathing in the crystal cold
to warm and puff it out like smoke.
Just one more block to walk till home
holds me in her warm embrace.
Counting Sand
She looks at me just like November,
chilling the curious desire to reach.
Waiting to run into one
who doesn’t flinch and run
is like counting sand.
Time and time and time again,
but every time
it takes me longer to recharge.
How do I correct a spiral dive?
Anti-gravity?
Breakfast
Breakfast on the patio,
sunshine on my face.
Yawning is a pleasure I can take
this time of day.Coffee, cakes and tangerines
and pleasant company.
Myself is someone here and now
I’m not afraid to be.
Morning washes clean my mind
and memories away,
for all the pain and goals unreached
life still can be OK.
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Hope
Hoping still
for that universal tidal wave,
rushing, warm, and lifting me,
when she looks into my soul.
When she speaks I’m not afraid
to conquer any Everest,
Looking, longing,
hoping still.
Depressed
Fumbling, stumbling down the road,
grabbing signposts for my life.
Solid ground is just a passing thought.
Freezing, sneezing in the rain,
getting good at hiding pain.
Sometimes I get ideas that I’m caught.
Sagging, dragging out at dawn,
damning clocks and telephones.
The ghost is growing weary of this game.
I had a reason once I think,
for doing life and fearing death,
but it escapes me.
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It Will Come
In the cold, in the black
in the back of my mind,
it’s hard to imagine the light.
Still I’m convinced it will come,
it will come.
It’s often I reach
for the vision of sight,to see what prodigies see.
Not soon enough it will come,
it will come.
If one would believe
the media type,
there would be no use having eyes.
Death and destructionpromoted with hype
and millions of similar lies.
In freezing December
I’m reaching for June
and all of the life it will bring.
I’m bound to believe it will come,
it will come.
Let’s Pretend
I was alive some years ago
I think it was B.C.
when goals and love consumed my days
and life was lived by me.
But recently it’s all downhill
and suicide says “Come.
Close your eyes and give it up.
Life can’t be lived by some.”
Wake up! you wretched, sinful soul
and find again the flame,
that burns and brightens up the worldand lightens up the game.
It’s not too late to still create
and laugh and love and win.
Come play the game of “Let’s pretend”
and start to smile again.
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Miracles
Music blue and green,
too real to be ignored.
Velvet vocals still caressing me.
A perfect soulmate from the past
lost in present time, still calls.
How to find her once again
is a game almost too much.
Yet the spirit still is sure
of miracles and so,
will go throughout millennia
to make the team come true.
The Alien
Promising blue and white, then green.
A jewel of a rock,
unexpectedly found.
It’s just the spot to cool my jets and drink a few.
Navigating waves of earthlings,
who are busy burning down the place.
Seems sanity gets lost
somewhere along the way.
I’m glad it’s not my planet, still,
I think I’ll stay a while.
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Reality
Beast,
keep your distance.
Take a holiday.
I need to run for just a while
like a wild child,
through trees and rain and meadowlands,
until I sleep
and dream a dream of innocenceno one can take away.
Beast,
keep your distance.
Look the other way.
For just a moment I'll pretend
my freedom is unlimited,
and laughter comes to me
that doesn't have to end,
until I fall asleep and dream
of something called reality.
This Valley
Big balloons and galleries
and wine and wine and wine,
the universe it used to be
to me when I was nine.
Rolling acres of estates
of all variety,
work the vine for wine and grape
and notoriety.
Weekend tourists flood the place
escaping city steel,
to crowd the cafes and the parks
and leisurely take meals.
Streets become a parking lot
impossible to drive,
but who can turn away a friend
when holidays arrive.
It’s smaller now than years ago
this valley I call mine,
the universe it used to beto me when I was nine.
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The Truth
There’s beauty in the music
filling all of space;
energy and even matter sing.
Octaves follow octaves,
spiraling away;
resonant to every living thing.
Light and mind and postulates
surround and swirl around,
spilling over in reality;
making solid some ideas
thought of in a dream.
I wonder what society
could make out of this world,if every boy and girl were taught
the truth that was themselves.
You
The memories of you keep coming back to me,
sparkling eyes and laughter are mostly what I see.
But lifetimes come and go like breath
and pictures aren’t so bright,
And pressures of the daily grind
take memories from sight.
Hordes of robots give reports
of murder, blood, and tragedy;
mindless of the crimes they do
on our humanity.
Men who promised they would lead
and take us out of slavery,
daily fail the test of truth
and plead insanity.
What is worth this hellish dream
that few have woken from?
And who escapes the endless traps
to sail among the free?
The memories of you keep coming back to me,
sparkling eyes and laughter are mostly what I see.
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Slaves
You must be something marvelous,
beautiful and dangerous,
for them to try so hard to keep you down,
and try to keep you small
and far from libertywith taxes, guns, and cops.
Truth can make you free
so they do not broach the truth,
nor hint about the strength
that lies in you.
The slave who doesn’t realize
that freedom can exist
is best the faithful slave.
She
She can turn heads
she learnsshe can acquire with small effort
under massive assaults of admiration
she crumbles
and resigns herself to be loved.
Trust in Me
Insurance money crinkles and widens up the eyes,as Dr. Barbie Bituate prescribes another high.
‘Trust in me, just in me’
The plague of helpless humans, convinced that they’re insane
excites his padded pocketbook like voltage to the brain.
‘Trust in me, I’ll set you free’
Silent screams from broken hearts go crashing down the halls,but deafness of the heart and soul seems to be his goal.
‘Trust in me, then you’ll see’
Jackets straight, electroshock and drugs to make you blind,
lobotomies and other ‘cures’ are what we have in mind.
‘Trust in me and you’ll agree’
Mumbling, stumbling to the bank
with shame and blame and doubt,
If I could only drug them all they’d never find me out
‘Trust in me, trust in me.’
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Dreamers
Dame radio speaks
and romances me,
throughout a sleepless night.
Visions of one
dancing alone,
keep swirling ‘round my head.
Memories brighter are calling to me,
I think I’ll lose her eventually.
Dreamers hold on to your dreams
Dreamers forget not your dreams
I thought I could feel
the beat of her heart,
and love that lives forever.
Mysteriously
she whispers to me,we’ll always be together.
Morning comes creeping into my brain.
Without a goodbye she turns into rain.
Dreamers hold on to your dreams.
Dreamers forget not your dreams.
Someday
I grew up in Texas and learned how to fight,
and learned what was wrong and what’s right.
I know how to whistle and lasso a cow,
but that’s not what bothers me now.
I kiss all the girlsand some of them cry,
to this day I still don’t know why.
Someday, someday
I keep getting told it will happen to me,
I’ll be head over heels someday.
I can’t build a rocket to fly to the moon,I can’t hardly carry a tune.
I’ve got no diploma to hang on the wall,
somehow I don’t miss it at all.
It don’t bother me
I laugh anyway,
I guess I’m just lucky that way.
Someday, someday
I keep getting told it will happen to me,
I’ll be head over heels someday.
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Free as an Angel
You woke me from a nightmare
of never ending tears,
I think I’ll always want to have you near.
You woke me from a nightmare,with just a little kiss,
I didn’t know a soul could feel like this.
I’m as free as an angel
escaping heaven above
I’m as free as an angel,
but I’m a prisoner of love.
Life tried to make me older
and tried to make me hide,
but I can live forever by your side.
Life tried to make me weaker
with every passing day,
but I could move a mountain when you say:
I’m as free as an angelescaping heaven above
I’m as free as an angel
but I’m a prisoner of love.
Life Could Be A Melody
Life could be a melody
if you would only smile.
Life could be a symphony
if you would only smile.
I could live without your touch –
without your kiss, won’t miss it much,
but life could be so sweet to me,
if you would only smile.
I would be a millionaireif I could make you smile.
I could dance like Fred Astaire
if I could make you smile.
There’s no one that I couldn’t be
- Superman, Hercules,
Life would mean so much to me,
if I could make you smile.
You’ve got some worries about love
I know – everybody does
But when you walk into the sun
every shadows on the run
What can I do
What can I say to you?
Life could be a melodyif you would only smile
Life could be a symphony
if you would only smile
I do without so many things
like limousines and diamond rings
but I would own most everything
if you would only smile.
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Teardrops
I remember loving one,
I remember loving two,
I remember all the things that lovers do.
Seems I’ve lived too many years,
bled and cried too many tears,
hoping for a miracle from out the blue.
But I realize my pain
isn’t anything but rain,
after all it’s only teardrops that I cry.
Don’t damn the daylight.
Don’t damn the night.
Don’t damn forever,
or the reasons why.There’s still tomorrow
and a brand new sky,
after all, it’s only teardrops that we cry.
When you find yourself alone,
and your dreams are turning blue,
and no matter how you try they won’t come true.
When you’re losing every game,
and you want to go insane,
and you know your lovin’ soul is growing cold,
Take a walk into the sun,
your forever’s just begun,
and remember it’s just teardrops that you cry.
Don’t damn the daylight.Don’t damn the night.
Don’t damn forever,
or the reasons why.
There’s still tomorrow
and a brand new sky,
after all, it’s only teardrops that we cry.
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After You
Living alone isn’t easy, after you
loving another’s not easy, after you
I don’t mind a bit
I’ll have to admit
I’m still, I’m still after you.
Songs aren’t so sweet, after you
and nothing’s complete, after youwine is undrinkable
sex is unthinkable
I guess I’m just sick after you.
All Because of You
I blasterflame no gaffe jay
See black I laymidan
But Sorcia do the okenay
Until redstab akan
Rachel, Rachel,
Krash an brakendown
My weep a tally undofare
Day jam blue sadi sound
I creep, I cry, moonday, moonda,
Tare up da cane to bleedGodsee menan she fakenda
All down to Lobandee
Kari kachelle an dance a fite
terrific up to do,
am crackle to fabrainian
and all because of you.