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David E McGough "Dulces Amarilla" Loyal - 13 years, 8 months, 16 days ago

I am currently in Portland, Or, having just returned from 7 months in Spain and France, I had a bit of an epiphany today which was that as much as I love to travel, i have always done it seeking happiness, for the most part. As much as I still want to travel, from here on, I think I want togo about it from the basis of being happy internally and wanting to get out and share that with whatever corner of this world I end up in at various times. Sure, we have all read or heard so many different people say that being happy is something that happens on the inside. Happiness is not a place, is not a destination. It is one thing to know about someone else knowing this, but it is something completely different to have this realization come to fruition inside your own awareness. Too often, we just say things that have no real meaning for us because it is what we are supposed to say or we just nod our heads in agreement without really KNOWING. Today, while riding my bike along the sunny streets of this beautiful city, I realized that, though I basically have nothing right now, no job, not much money, no solid place to sleep some nights, what I do have are amazing friends, an inspired yoga practice and the desire to start teaching it again, a camera, healthy food and a healthy body, a clear mind, spirituality, contentment, in short, happiness. I believe this happiness is the cornerstone for whatever thing is coming next for me, and I am excited about the experience!
David E McGough "Dulces Amarilla" Loyal - 13 years, 9 months, 16 days ago

this is a poem for Yvi, who one my auction...thank you, Yvi...

This Old Guitar

Senorita, there was once an English boy
who strummed a lullabye for you
with words humming and threading along
echoing through the fibers of this old guitar

when the notes finally left the wood
and reached out for the lace of your dress
it was found to be too cold, too hard
and so they fell trembling in the grass on the ground

without delay my fingers began again
and spoke to you another soaring verse
which reached the heights of the heavens
but alas, swam too low for your ears

I could dangle and swing in your black hair
and sing you lullabyes which would last forever
if this guitar had not lost her soul
the hanging ornament that you see now

without the stroke of my hardened fingers
the strings grew sad and fell away
without my song to keep her polished
the shimmering face became dusty stone

Senorita, your black eyes used to sparkle
your brown soft skin once had a glow
but an apathy deep inside your breast
flew away with your youthful flower

-David Edward McGough
David E McGough "Dulces Amarilla" Loyal - 14 years, 16 days ago

Marseilles


if you would be a friend
to me now, then
I implore you
stop hiding
show yourself to me
to the world, spinning

you vanished from it
from me, and left no word
freezing my world
that night
I was lost in Marseilles
roaming crowded streets, empty

rain dripped from my shoulders
blood spilled along avenues
down through gutters
those days
a shaded experience
of that flashing city

now with this pen
I take a revenge
I do not seek, yet
I know the result
words
mingled with blood
bring lightning down
and split hardest oak
much less, youngest pine

we can look back now
blindly jumping into, another
we forgot
time tested rules
laws of engagement
never to be broken
we shattered

-David Edward McGough
David E McGough "Dulces Amarilla" Loyal - 14 years, 1 month, 13 days ago

You can draw a box around most people and not worry because they will never mess up your lines.

-yours truly
David E McGough "Dulces Amarilla" Loyal - 14 years, 1 month, 13 days ago