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 Paul Warren Jacobs

These are some poems I've written over the years. The dates are publish dates as I'm unsure of when I wrote them.

I Love Love

1/4/2023

 
I love love
I still dream
of love
and laughter so deep
it hurts
I dream of crying
in joy
and sadness
Together
In love
In all
And joy, of course
Most the time
But unafraid
Of love’s pain
As love’s price
Is high.
I’ll pay
Again and again
I love love
I love you
Whoever.
You.
Are.

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Like Water

1/3/2023

 
Like water
There are many pools
of souls
on planet earth,
or thereabouts,
always recycling themselves.
Water evaporates,
We die.
Water gathers in clouds,
then falls back down to earth.
We gather on the other side,
then fall back down to earth.
Like water

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Cold Comfort

1/2/2023

 
Sitting in my
cold comfort
alone.
All in place
as it’s been
Comfortable
appearing warm but
no
No love in a warm place
can only be cold
Comfort can be had in familiarity
Flowing easily in pat routine
But comfort without love
is cold comfort indeed 



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Friends Prayer

1/1/2023

 
Alas, I have grown old
Where are all my friends?
They were here a moment ago
Glowing with life and love
Striving and achieving
Sometimes failing, sometimes falling
But standing up again with purpose
And love prevailed
again and again
I miss them so
They are where I live
and I don’t know if I’ll ever
find my way back home

Please …
Show me the way
And let me lay down easy
Let me see them once again
Eyes to sparkling eyes
Riff to sparkling riff
Either here or there
I loved all my friends
Still do.

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Stuck

12/31/2022

 
​Too Much Noise
Too much Ringing
Too much Chatter
Too much Clatter
Too much this
Too much that
Never Stops
Can’t take it.
Please stop.
Please.
I’m done.
I want out.
Too much noise
Too much ringing.
Too much Pain
Turn off the radio
Stop shouting
Turn on the Music
Please, Oh, Please
Get me out, out now
Outta here
 
Where to sir?

I.
Don’t.
Fucking.
Know.
 
 Fuck.
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Daydream

12/29/2022

 
I wish you were here
I wish you were so close
I could smell your skin
But more importantly
be with you, tell everything,
and anything
or
nothing.
I miss you,
your laugh when I’m silly,
my love,
my companion,
my feel ok whenever partner.
Inside Love
is where we live.
Sometimes
unable to see out
Lost because
we’ve found each other.
And, now ...
I can’t wait
to meet you.

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Be Careful When Old

12/28/2022

 
No tripping
No falling
No dropping
No slipping,
No breaking
No dripping
No stressing
No kvetching,
No cutting
No head butting,
No sugar
No fat
No salt
None o’ dat,
No crying
too much
Or laughing
too hard
Force feed
you meds
To compress
who you are,
‘Be Careful
When Old’
There should be
A sign
Especially when
Dancing
And Bonging,
And drinking
Our wine;~)-
I
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Humanity on Holiday

12/28/2022

 
​Humanity on Holiday
How happy, how joyful, how Merry
can we be while 
millions struggle 
to stay warm, to eat, 
facing a 
madman’s murderous missiles,
and those who abide by his rule.
We go on, while they shiver
We have coffee and breakfast in our robes
They left their robes behind
We sip our drinks by the fire and look at our tree
They scavenge for food and blankets 
and live underground, so far from free.
Their children cold and hungry,
while ours open their presents
and sip hot chocolate.
Humanity on Holiday 
How happy, how positive, how encouraged can we be while 
the Traitor still walks free,
lunching with Goebbels, 
and the black white motherfucker
who lost his shit
somewhere between
art 
and a small, dark place.
Humanity on Holiday
How happy, how satisfied,
how enriched can we feel while
white men come home alive,
And too many black men 
never come home again,
dispatched 
by Peacekeepers, 
trained to close their ears,
demand compliance while
beating a brother,
killing one after another 
Humanity on Holiday
How happy, how hopeful,
​how enlightened can we be
while mothers in tears,
are turned away and
hand their babies 
across the border, 
desperate to save them
from starvation, 
torture, 
rape 
and murder
and giving them 
a chance at salvation
a chance to survive.
Humanity on Holiday
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The Spark and The Flame

12/1/2022

 
V1
In the shadows
where no one sees me
I am watching you
silently
As the starlight
Has its way with you
I am wanting you
secretly

Br
      And you feel me
       Moving towards you
       You’ve been waiting
       For this time
       And though you’ve
       Never seen me
       You have known me
       All your life

​Ch
                             We are forever
                             One and the same
                              Alone and together
                              The Spark and the Flame

V2
I have dreamed of
Distant places
Different lives I lead
Far away
And you’re always
There beside me
You reside in me
Where e’er I lay

 Br        
        And I feel you

         Moving towards me
         I’ve been waiting
         For this time
         And though I’ve
         Never seen you
          I have known you
          All my life

CH    
                                  We are forever
                                  One and the same
                                   Alone and together
                                   The Spark and the Flame

                                   We are forever
                                   One and the same
                                   Alone and together
                                   The Spark and the Flame
            
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