{"id":2565,"date":"2010-03-03T04:20:36","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T09:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stephenpickering.com\/2010\/03\/03\/wheres-the-king\/"},"modified":"2010-03-06T05:32:04","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T10:32:04","slug":"a-new-original-poem-wheres-the-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/03\/a-new-original-poem-wheres-the-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Where’s the King?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Where’s the King,
\nThe radiant crown?
\nAll winter long he’s been down,
\nDown to the ground,
\nDriven by a stake.
\nOh, how he pays for the glowing mistake.<\/div>\n
But I’ll take you in my arms at night.
\nAlice will soon find the cat,<\/div>\n
And everything will be alright.
\nThe lake will glitter with moonlight
\nWith the boxers exuberant by the pool
\nNot understanding where he’s at.<\/p>\n

Will we go to school
\nOr hooky down by the river
\nProtected by the Cottonwoods and the cool
\nShoals that makes our souls shiver?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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An ant awaits us to give up our thoughts,
\nTo set our books down by the stream.
\nHe digs his hole in search of the literary dream,
\nthe fairy tale, the only thing
\nthat can truly be lived out in Spring.<\/p>\n

He’ll say I loved your wonderful musings
\nBut the sentence you wrote on Romeo’s confusing.
\nShouldn’t you kiss or at least hold her hand?
\nAnd let go of the reins like a romantic man?<\/p>\n

The Russians are under ground, you know,
\nDating bronze, silver, and golden girls
\nWho’ve built castles under the snow.
\nEach night I speak to them
\nTo see how their adventure’s turned.
\nPa Ruuski is not the language we speak
\nIt’s one you never heard<\/p>\n

Jesus’ triangle sweeps the West.
\nBuddha’s the East.
\nThey say the great mountain fills the South
\nWith eternal life for he who sucks from it’s rivers mouth.<\/p>\n

But you should take your girl now
\nAnd go back to school;
\nBack to the chambers of the golden rule.
\nThere will be other times
\nTo play and frolic and rhyme.
\nCome back tomorrow and you’ll lose your sorrow.
\nCome back next week,
\nI’ll bring you the dream you seek.<\/p>\n

Catfish at night: the crickets delight.
\nThey belong in eternal June
\nHanging from the crescent Moon.
\nLay here for a moment, but then you must leave soon.
\nIsn’t that what your mind says?
\nBut rejoice, for you may leave your Soul here,
\nfor all of eternity, to swoon.<\/p>\n

Sent from my iPhone<\/p>\n

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