"No"

I love moments like this
I used to want
Someone to share it with
Now I think
That's ridiculous

I make me happy
I am the one who smiles
Don't want another running me
For miles

Not
When I have to imagine the view
And that's what I did
With you

I want to love the moments
Don't want to regret my yesterday's anymore

No

I'll not relive
What came before

d
09 03 07

Olive

   

“Olive”

While I am not a speaker,

In any sort of the word.

I do often flail against the current,

To say what needs be heard.

I am a wordsy person,

Though not a thesaurus in flesh.

It does upset when I’m at a loss,

As if I failed a test.

I should always have the words,

I should be able to comfort your heart.

But your experience and mine,

Are so far apart.

So clearly I have not,

Experienced enough,

And I do not poses' it,

I still lack the stuff.

Just another blind man,

Guiding the blind along the street.

Just as the roads are slick and unpredictable,

Under the sleet.

I want to tell you it will be ok,

But sweetie I am just not sure.

And I am simply unequipped to offer comfort,

In this pain you endure.

Such a simple name Olive,

Green surrounded by red.

Or the precious heart of life,

Instead.

Danny Gunter

04-25-2011

For Steph and her Olive.

I wish I knew what to say to help you feel better.

I <3 you and Travis & Olive

It Fell In On Me

 

“It Fell In On Me”

 

One morning the sunlight poured,

It fell in on me.

At the hope of day.

When I could see what life should be.

 

I stretched and I yawned.

I rested warm and safe where I belonged.

So beautiful, so peaceful,

I’d never felt anything so strong.

 

But so like the weather,

You never know what’s warm or cold.

If anything’s reliable,

For your heart to hold.

 

I got caught outside,

As my world was freezing.

I remember my clouds of breath,

As you were leaving.

 

One morning the sunlight poured,

It fell in on me.

At the hope of day.

When I could see what life should be.

 

But we all know better,

Don’t we?

 

Danny Gunter

04-24-2011

Easter – On High…

Easter – On High…


Mr. and Mrs. Supreme Being (specific names are not important to my point).

They have brought the family together for Easter Dinner. They have their son (they clearly don’t think about it like we do), they have the cousins, the aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, profits and disciples all together to enjoy the special day.

The Mrs. SB (Supreme Being) has set the heavens up perfect. Rainbows on every horizon, fluffy clouds where everyone needs to set and a good solid thundercloud to set dinner on.

They have all the usual disagreements. Mr. SB (Supreme Being) gets all upset when dinner is served. “We can’t be eating rabbit on Easter! What kind of message does that send?”

Mrs. SB (Supreme Being) yells back, “Talk to Gabriel, he caught it and he’s your little angel!”

Gabriel is just chuckling to himself.

They quiet down, just enjoying the day.

Mr. SB (Supreme Being) says “Let’s all take turns and share our most memorable Easter memory…”

Everyone gets real quiet as Jesus is just glaring at everyone from the far end of the table…

Mrs. SB hits Mr. SB (Supreme Being) with the kitchen towel, “I’ve told you and I’ve told you not to do that again!”

Happy Easter y’all!

Roaches Scurry

  
"Roaches Scurry"

Staring out the window,
Burning light the leaves are wilting.
Light bellows life reborn.
But hope is retreating.

Inside an endless downpour,
The flowers drown.
Before they have the strength,
Too sprout from the ground.

The ground is burned and cracked,
Even in the rain.
The sweet song of birds,
Sound's utterly insane.

Singing just to sing?
Living just to live?
Parasites suck away,
All they have to give.

Roaches scurry,
Feed upon remains.
Are they the only ones,
Not insane?

Danny Gunter
10 22 07

Everything It Meant To You

         
"Everything It Meant To You"

Why do people run when they've,
People who care in their lives?
Do they really not realize,
It hits the heart like knives?

You've stood with them,
Through thick and thin.
You've shared life's troubles,
Again and again.

Then there is a crack,
Through everything you thought you knew.
And you wonder if it meant to them,
Everything it meant to you.

d
11/28/2007

So, I just watched the M&M commercial...

So, I just watched the M&M commercial. Red and Yellow are setting on the coffee table while a man and a woman discuss the probability of the M&M’s limbs and shoes being chocolate too.




Now I am forced to wonder, if Plain Red and Peanut Yellow are the only Red and Yellow M&M’s that can talk? Or are there other Plain Reds and Peanut Yellows with different voices and personalities? Are all Green M&M’s female? Since she is Green, does that mean her Parental M&M’s would have to be Yellow and Blue? Are they a bunch of individual M&Ms or are they like the human Cylons? All Plain Reds share a collective personality and memories with all of the copies of Plain Red?



Since they know what chocolate tastes like does that make them cannibals? If a milk chocolate M&M eat a white chocolate M&M, is it still cannibalism?



Since it is almost always Plain Red and Peanut Yellow in the commercials are Plain Red and Peanut Yellow somehow higher in the M&M social structure?