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Michael Everest. poet

About Me

In defense of myself: I have always lived here, among these dreams and hopes... fully possesed by the loves and fears of an overly romantic heart given to a nature of passions. I know of no other way of living, no other way of Being.
)An Artist is one who cannot naturally accept established ideas of Being, and so Art is the way their Identity is uncovered, the means by which the Self realizes and proclaims: I Am.I write because I must breathe, because for me Writing is the hell and salvation through which Things speak... The explorations of my own heart as it lives and feels, dies and is reborn, that is what I am put here to know.....I have entertained no childish notions of immortality; I have always known I would die. But, I have never known the degree to which I would be able to Love so selflessly and that has always been my greatest fear... and my greatest hope.As a Man I can only dream under the stars, but as an Artist I can wander, dance, love, speak and grieve among them..................... In all honesty-- In vino, Veritas.I WOULD LIKE TO MEET... poets, writers, musicians, artists, storytellers, vagabonds, hobos, your alcoholic uncle, fireflies, lightening bugs, the devil at midnight, wicked-smile blessed angels, the rogues of downtown bars and country highways under star speckled nights, wine drinkers and heart-stealers......

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/11/2007
Band Members: Spoken-word will never be Poetry, they are as different as one who useses a flashlight to make shadows on a wall, and one who illumes a mountain with a sigh......................................................TH IS IS WHAT INTERESTS ME: art, music, lightening, poetry, language, tattoos, nature, sex, women, books, firecrackers, food, magic, slow forming smiles, love, passion in all things, passion like it's your blood's ache and wonder, dancing, laughter, cooking, romance... all these and those things which make life great, difficult, inspiring, and like nothing else...... the best thing is finding someone who will sing with you, no matter how off key or tone deaf you are.....To be driven crazy by the sight of someone's face is the best form of insanity I know...
Influences: Not so much influences, but more Kind & Kin: Aeschylus, Rimbaud, Rilke, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, Walt Whitman, Chan Marshall, Rufus Wainwright, Bob Dylan, Jack Kerouac, Lawrence Durrell, Anna Akhamatova, Heironymous Bosch, Felix the Cat, Oscar Wilde, Bjork...
Sounds Like: the wind through the trees... the sun rising amongst silhouetted friends... a man in love.....
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Requiescat In Pace

When did it start?The hours that slow and sulkSongs no one dances to All the dried and crushed flowers burningWithout a prayer said?Because I do not nowDown the river weeping mothers light candlesThe ...
Posted by on Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:45:00 GMT

Ode to Bourbon

What could you give me I couldn't findIn a bottle of bourbon?Love?  Sex?  The feel of your body as it warms and sweats?   The taste of your lips or of something sweeter?Your pussy ...
Posted by on Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:11:00 GMT

Clea

Go out- into the soft-muted body of evening closing your eyes as the ships return to the shoreline docks,you rest your small painters hand on a white barricadeand behind you are the lights of th...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:01:00 GMT

At a Marketplace

Prologue: In mosques I searched for youAmong the prayers and clasped hands Of weeping mothers You were not there And I stood before the temple doorsAnd walked out into the deserts once more Until I co...
Posted by on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 23:59:00 GMT

Whoever You Are....

" as pretty as a song, a song could ever be..."maybe some night you will read these words& know they were written for youalone, sitting up late under some vaguely familiar skyfathoming the deepnes...
Posted by on Sun, 06 May 2007 03:00:00 GMT

we speak in sign

we speak in signyour body- nude and curlingfetus likeinto me, says:  i loveandmy body enclosing around you, says:  i love says:            &n...
Posted by on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 21:48:00 GMT

i could die tonight

I could die tonightwrapped in the melancholy sound you singi could die tonightneighter saint nor sinnerbut a man in lovei could stretch my body outto greet the wavesremembering the afternoon of youthe...
Posted by on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:58:00 GMT

in the fall

in the falling autumn, wepaint trees like easter eggs and i untangle the ribbon holding back your hairstringing it across the tops from branch to branchthinking it will surely net the sky, orperhaps a...
Posted by on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 13:43:00 GMT

Cunts

  they ruin it for me, the ones without ballsreading it out of books and mimicing words as their owndrinking my whiskey and fucking my women as if they'll ever be a true lover, as ifthey could br...
Posted by on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:56:00 GMT