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Alpha Brain Waves

Shannon Peil — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 18:24:17 +0000

Drifting and floating;
blue comes crashing–reason flees.
Warmth stabs deep.
Ugly worlds vanish–gone.
Police sirens fade.
Serene ruminations flit.

Soothsayers mouths are stopped with dust;
silence takes her throne.
Visions of placid waters tumble.
Pegasus mounts to the sky where
the Milky Way is sweet marmalade..
Alpha waves are
better than cocaine.

© Mike Berger, 2010

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Neandetals

Shannon Peil — Tue, 25 May 2010 17:38:17 +0000

Questions swirl around the humanoid
neandetals. Were they brutish, more
like an ape than a man?

Were they more like you and I building
fires and making tools? Did they mate
with humans? Why did they seemingly
disappear. Theories abound but the
enigmas persist.

We can only learn so much from their
gravesites and their fossil remains. There
is, however, a way to study their behavior
directly. With video camera in hand
go to a red neck bar Saturday night.

© Mike Berger, 2010

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Touched by Winter

Shannon Peil — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:55:14 +0000

Thick mist blew in from the lake
dense; a funeral shroud-opaque,
Vision shrunk as stillness distilled.

Erie feelings shouted, bouncing
between awe and fear.

Looking for the my old friend –the
cherry tree; mist blinded my view.
The white cloak obscured every
thing.

Rays of sunshine stabbed through.
Light fell on the old my old friend.
now myriads of shining diamonds;
fog distilled on its branches.

Sequins glistened in the
sun; erratic branches now thrust
to the sky in bizarre symmetry.
That rough old tree was now
resplendent,