Fill

Fill

by dan ankers

Fill the days with meaning

oh sometimes I think I’m dreaming

of this life I keep reliving

Can’t wait another minute

Oh look there I just did it

Just like the other time

I’m losing my mind

I guess it’s fun if you go with it

The Lake

The Lake by dan ankers There is a lake where autumn finds its name The crunch of colors underfoot reclaims the earth for Winter’s reign And a cabin where she and I do lay Where we will always be She and I, forever to a day The seasons will roll over us there Tocks, eternal Till we can meet again Forever under an autumn moon As the soon slumbering earth lays down her rows of beds for every living creature there in tocks, eternal for every living autumnal thing

Mike

Mike

by dan ankers

Hardest working guy I know

Remember legos, now you know

This guy is here to build it’s true

He loves to play and pick from parts

he loves the minute smaller arts

He’s intricate and wound real tight

He loves to push through; work at night

He’s not afraid; he’d rather prosper

He won’t be told, he’s just another

man

My brother Mike breaks through

Every Fucking time

With the Genius Power of his

Czwalina/Ankers complex mind

He is my hero and I love him with my heart

remember all the times when

he was building

I was breaking something

Out in the woods

I cared not for

the type

or the color of the thing that I smashed

so long as the

explosions of glass

were vast and I didn't end up in a cast

while Mike was somewhere building, always building

with a million nails, perilous nails

I was off somewhere next to the river

just torturing snails

I love that guy with a hand that pours forth like wine

he is so fucking funny, he makes us both laugh every time

It’s as if God said, I want to make two dudes, who are nothing like each other and put them both in a room and then boom

lets just see what they could do

I barely approve

The Scorpion Princess

The Scorpion Princess

by dan ankers

She is the Sheriff. She is bad.

The is the one who makes the rules along the land.

No room for cowards, or kiss-ups.

You’re either rolling with her or you're done.

Her sting is magic

Simply majestic

When the unjust claim the land they are arrested

tested and tried

fools pushed outside

not with our tribe

not with our vibe.

Not at all.

Yes the Princess is just the best in all the world.

Vision, you go global, you go total

total empathy

Though she’s got venom

she’s got the cure for your disease

rich beyond your means

give to the clouds

get on your knees

and she is humble

right there with the rest of them folk

she is the egg and she is the yolk

she done spoke

let the little boy

have a coat

There’s too much suffering

He should be slumbering

Next to his mother

safe and warm

She is the peace; yet she is the storm

let no man or woman passs who wishes to take a piece of food from a baby’s mouth

She is the wrath of every mother

she is the lover of every man

she represents, that which has been sanctified by god

and she will

rule over

that hallowed land

From the bottom of

From the Bottom of

by dan ankers

From the bottom of my moss covered mind

there is a lever if you’re clever enough to find

or persistent with a bit of dumb luck and inspiration

either way there lies the very thing in question

Yank it swiftly and the results will be nifty

It catches a tad so you have gotta really try

but when the job is done, will be a thing to catch your eye

I come undone

truth is I simply love the feeling

Long ago my natural state was this, so wild and so freewheeling

But long since then I found another orientation

With wisdom came a different kind of peace-keeping inclination

I throw the apple cart, though, still whenever I can

I tell the king he’s dead and every righteous man

Soon hears the truth we all see but few can

for sake of responsibility, inform that prideful man

His smug approval of his own shady ongoings

is self approved

And he smugly senses then that every fool is fooled

He must be so clever then

The cleverest of all dudes.

So please come pull my lever

Dare and let me out

And for a little while

the fools will hear me shout

Then I’ll be stuffed back in the cookie cutter’s mouth

With such sweet madness

and yes abandon

I support my habit poorly

But it must be done

from time to time

I can’t abort it

So get me goin’

Must be done

Until I drop

With sweet abandon

and great sadness

Recycled madness

Recycled madness

And with great sadness

Recycled madness

Repeated sadness

There was once a river so vast.

There was once a river so vast.

by Dan Ankers

There was once a kind of 

restaurant. What kind of river did I deliver?

I left my wallet on

to sing this pilot song

could it be a rose or 

did I deliver?

do I care

I'm crying

only shame

You guess my name

The Greatest

The Greatest

by dan ankers

Mayweather is a great fighter, we watched him grow up before our very eyes

However, Ali is and was and always will be THE GREATEST, we watched him ascend into the skies

Ali is a new Legend, like Apollo or Dionysus,

and when he perishes

the whole world shall know

that he

Was nothing like Us

Yet he stood by us

And cared for us

Achingly, Truly within his heart

for he did not for one minute want

to fight in a war that he did not start

The Unclouded Mind

The Unclouded Mind

by dan ankers

The unclouded mind needs a hand

with the stress of this life on this land

like the tip of the knife, where we

stand

Forward now

Further into infinity

Where stars resemble dreams

each one a piece of me

Feeling every stitch of the moment

passing by

am I a

button-eyed wonder

a toy of infinity

lost in this moment of need

as

I prostrate myself

and I plead for divinity, only

having to settle for this cattle-like

profanity

called

me

I

Don another cloak and close the window

it’s too cold outside

and now

I am starting to cry