Mount Himalaya Poems

by

Billy McBride

1.
The words became lost
Like the kings of Love
Longing for their Juliets.
Either a knight or a dunce Those were the masks of myself.
Nothing was real
For any traitor to the truth.
In the waves near France
Or upon its shore there were men Lads, animals,
Like Tom and his horse.
Partly white

Wintergreens
Bloomed in the sun.
- Honey with Billy McBride

2.
Ugly pride
Has two feet.
Because of Eve and the Devil,
Adam was cursed,
Magically insulted;
He saw red.
Aristotle and Coleridge
And the wit, Percival,
Daemon of the Buzz,
Too went into the thin void
Through the murky air,
As did Louie go.
Hilarious rats!
Even Doctors suffer.
- Thrikbot with Billy McBride

13.
The Angels will sing a spiritual song from their height

To put me to bed in the night,

And afterwards for themselves sing to play
While I dream of the solid things of my day.
I am floating on the sea
With them and they with me;
They tell me I will become
An Angel like they are when I come
To leave this Earth that I view,
And I will meet other Angels too
Whom I once knew to know again,
Whom I knew even before I existed on the Earth where for now I must remain.
We will all be together as before,
And I will be happy again on the shore.
- Ora with Billy McBride

17.
My spirit became silent
Across the radiant day
That dissolved the hours away
Swiftly over the earth.
Forcefulness was vain,
I thought, myself now a glorified hero,
As night spaced out.
When words were lowered,
Joys grew;

The bed was softer,

And every old delight too.
Up ahead the lands would be loved again
In the rocking of the days
In their heights above the lands.
- Bertha with Billy McBride

19.
Again the day wandered away:
Time beyond place,
Father away from child,
Now blinded by his wilder voice within.
The touches of life
That came before, no more,
Like the names of people
Who once seemed sacred men.
Strangers questioned
If the poor mattered anymore to them.
The good people who were left
Were driven into
An evil time
When even they
Had to hide themselves in silence.
- Amy with Billy McBride

18.
Black our moon did cross
Gusts of the night.
Winds about the earth
Brought the clouds your soul,
Your live soul,
My fairer acquaintance,
With speed wandering
The way unto your home.
Hope too lingered
Within time a light
To diviner things about your way
Through the excellent azure
Loudest rivers
Beneath our black moon.
- Arielle with Billy McBride

19.
Again the day wandered away:
Time beyond place,
Father away from child,
Now blinded by his wilder voice within.

The touches of life

That came before, no more,
Like the names of people
Who once seemed sacred men.
Strangers questioned
If the poor mattered anymore to them.
The good people who were left
Were driven into
An evil time
When even they
Had to hide themselves in silence.
- Amy with Billy McBride

20.
The day wandered away again
And again I felt more ignorant.
Slaves for the love of truth,
Men, kept their secrets I could not take action.
Being lovesick under a foreign sky,
I must have heard well the music
In order to solve another riddle.
A foul mouth adulterer
Hunted the deer somewhere beyond

For his dainty supper.

Somewhere a love-mad society
Of liars and the unfaithful crowded over.
Somewhere Inconstant fools' eyes
Watched over some vulnerable ladies.
- Bertha with Billy McBride

21.
The love-sick who had no trust in God
Laid in their beds and yearned.
They had no loves,
No persons to join with them in beds,
Yelled out and were killed by their sickness.
Others saved money from an organized crime,
Invisible from their very own neighbors,
Read very little and knew even less.
I myself had been insulted every day,
Been hungry for thought each day until you came.
I myself was invisible and was love-sick
Until you came for me.
You arrived and were stronger,
And I was loved,
And you and your love
Were stronger than all power itself.

- Thrikbot with Billy McBride

22.
The blued roof
Brightening heavens
Golden the morning
Shining clear the light,
Palest darkness arrive
With thunder the day,
Moved streams
Wind over mountain
Where fades the flower grows
Faint as my hope
For accurate for secure
For last self
Faint the spark
Within that pale dark.
- Marion with Billy McBride

23.
Sacredness loveliness
Spread the wings hope

Cycle wisdom
Tear from grief
Of presence final annihilate
During mighty morn
Another delight the year
Youngest flower blooming
Can change a world
Star the light shine
Splendor the twilight
Slumbers wind blow down
From clouds staining
Wild with gold.
- Grouchy with Billy McBride

24.
The past the decaying
Into that same the oblivion
That existed itself all things
Circumferenced like the day
To gather time
To gather star
Enduring now
Where wisdom the wait is for you
For gentleness the path

Of your own overflow your own self.

Mild as life would be
Dim as the sea
Beside a greener spot
Beside what could
Have been your own world
And you at home with it.
- Bertha with Billy McBride

25.
Pretty the elephant,
The wineo priest
Freedom from principle
From real the leader
Dust house.
Just another Monday again;
Bear east,
Lone bee
Pass Austin
Command more to thirst upon
The golden flower
On more hills
Arch your life
Over the gate for more wisdom.

- Thrikbot with Billy McBride

26.
Wild the love
A thing you with I dance with
But when winter leaves me
Trampled in pain
As if by the noisier crowd,
What will save from pain?
Can it circle the moon
In the long sky,
The sad eye?
Be my simple friend
Be a voice my soul
Care for the earth,
Our lonesome home
Our bitter way.
- Honey and Billy McBride

27.
The ancient garden is.
Its garden flowers are.

It is industrious to work both on them

And on the growth that trust is.
The tunes of the day sound
Like dry wine drunk.
What victories I had over others was.
And now the narrow the trees stand
The beautiful trees
The trees around the fountain
Wasting their fruit
Wasting my ancient complaints too
While shade after shade
After shade is annihilated
Annihilated from the high grass.
- Elaine with Billy McBride

28.
Because we were different spirits,
We let others go on for themselves
And they sprung up into the air.
As the new dark must pass
Roving with its company more,
Nearly dying I found
I battled those same moments of time,
The paradise above was spreading with all

Living through the storm for now.

Something stayed as it must.
Candle-lights were lit,
The same summer went on.
It was a vain city for me,
Everything was obscured by sound;
It was a dreary place too but why?
- Ora Ora Tiferetot with Billy McBride

29.
His opponent was challenged
But the champion won
On the greatest of days,
His best day
In a long time.
The dawn of the morn had risen.
Beyond the noon there was more work to do
In the afternoon to dusk.
History old
Ruined and crumbling
With time's records
In this ancient place
To return to the land where he belongs,
His home to dwell

And the country close by.

- Yafah with Billy McBride

30.
After its loud roar
The wind died down,
There was a hush of peace
Over the silent things.
The rocks of the earth,
Objects in piles
Were picked up and moved away.
Then setting her son down with a kiss
And a friendly hug,
The Mother's love
Made more gentle his dreams
Resting in the night
Alone asleep
Unthinking within the dark.
- Kabbalah with Billy McBride

31.
The skies were clear

Clean and perfect

Before the showers came.
A fresh tomorrow
For the nearer future
Of another day
And agenda for the children
Shall bring the grey rain,
The worth of clouds above
To the mirroring lake.
The silver weather
Thunder and lightning
And rain will then change,
And the wind and sunshine
Shall arrive again.
- Grouchy with Billy McBride

32.
I am very sensitive to pain,
Affected much by love
And by anything that touches my emotions.
In my feelings comes the future
Where all of my times ahead lie,
Every promise of tomorrow,
Its own scheduled appointment ahead.

Every point and every proof

Which would end some argument or another
Results in a very definition
That would have concluded itself in my mind
From the matters of thought
Where a body of knowledge
Could have been learned
So that I could finally rest.
- Elaine with Billy McBride

33.
Brown boulders
Pile up. The mountain
Stones of this earth
Grass and trees
Watery lakes are illuminated
At the start of the morning
During a fresh dawn.
But I have gone before my time
Early into that heaven
To be with the Angels of the sky
To paradise and the stars
In peace and bliss
For a few days

Spending time off,

A vacation span,
Or maybe even for weeks
Above the country
Above house and land
Higher than the birds of the landscape
Its rivers and fields.
- Shay with Billy McBride

34.
At night fall
I stumbled blind
Guided only by the light
From the moon and stars
Down a dark street
And down the alleyways of a town.
Cars and people passed me by in a rush.
I stepped over the cobblestone.
The weather was windy,
It was a chilly winter,
Frost was in the air.
The cold weeds
On the ground in the grass
Poked their stems above

With prickly leaves.

- Libby with Billy McBride

35.
The drippy stars,
The drake,
No ducks,
Quack.
The landscape with nothing on it
But a lone man.
Night sunset,
The noise of an airplane.
A fixture in the lake floats.
Labor. Sand and sand
And oysters.
Some policemen
Of the blue
Sky. Heavenly
Linened in
Picnic patrol..
Body within
The sunbeams,
The grass
Grouped. Heavenly Hello!

A bulging balloon
Above.
- Thrikbot with Billy McBride

36.
A crimson curtain.
Nomad. Excalibur
In the rock.
Formula One Ford.
The pig-iron night.
Egret. Shoulder and structure.
Whew!
Flood, frost and lover.
Inch-worm in the crinkled dell.
- Kabbalah with Billy McBride

37.
A saturated sunset
Breaking out into song.
Cream, chromosome,
A lover's spat.
In the land of nod.

Planet Mars,
Sleepwalker. The amber
Radiance. Unripe strawberry.
Square-dance. Exercise
Equipment.
Sailing to the Sahara.
A cosmetic Cretan.
Runaway lights.
The plankton comforted.
Rubber band.
Island dim.
The mark of Zorro.
Mud and glow.
Check plus.
Amethyst, Travertine,
Shadow boxer.
- Elaine with Billy McBride

38.
Supernova carpentry
The nose of a mouse.
Doodles and blots
Observations.
A pinch on Saint Patrick's

Day. Velcro.
Gate graphics.
A bull market.
Lace and lunch,
Neon.
Bib. Bomb
In the ditch.
Corinthian order,
Gritty. Garner snake.
Jewel and hockey.
Zucchini. A textbook
On Mount Himmeleah.
Autumn.
Go. A Gordian knot.
Excalibur.
- Elaine with Billy McBride

40.

Tu-tu. A turbulent
Body of water.
Turbulence.
Boat in the turbulence.
Tu-tu of a ballerina.

Boat, tu-tu, boat, tu-tu.

A ballerina's question.
Dance of the water.
Waves. Questionable waves.
Mount Himmeleah and the waves.
The mountain, the water, the waves.
Himmeleah, supernova, Excaliber.
The egret in flight over Himmeleah.
Excaliber and the waves.
Gordian knot that I
Tied tight.
The Gordian knot
Which I neglect.
Go. Himmeleah.
Gordian, Gordian chromosome.
Gordian chromosome and the mountain.
The mountain and the wars.
The mountain of the chariot.
Tu-tu.
The mountain
Of a lover's spat.
Of a lover's spat
Which I am not part of.
So what chromosome,
Chromosome cream.
Excaliber in the night sunset.

Tu-tu. Saturation
Of a big sunset.
Saturation sun that has set.
Selection of a lover.
Saturation, the sun has set.
It is night.
Supernovae.
A regular neon nova.
A nova, that is a supernova.
A supernova which I saw.
Nobody else. Nomad.
Drake. The nomad watched
The drake. A lover's spat.
The lovers are spatting
I am inside.
Am I inside a mountain?
The waves scrubbing
The seashore.
Supernova scrubbing the night.
The waves break.
The egret scrubs
Excaliber and the Gordian knot.
Tu-tu in the supernova.
Supernova I saw.
The tu-tu I saw inside the mountain.
I worked on the knot.

I worked the egret worked

I, whew!
There is nothing left but
To work with the nomad.
There are no ducks.
The drake swims in the pool.
Happy drake.
One man on the land.
One man in the textbook.
Whew! Quack.
The Gordian knot is creamy.
Cream and unripe strawberries.
Crimson curtains over the walls.
A creamy amethyst.

- Honey with Billy McBride

42.
Projection of the water lilies.
Rotation.
Folk-art. Coconut.
The shapes of cirrus clouds.
Relaxation and miniature golf.
Litterbug.
Magic etch-a-sketch.

The swelling flood

Waves. Leprechaun.
Retailer. The hilltop
Beyond the aquifer.
Photo-studio dark room.
Tapioca slime.
Uno.
Sweet pink jellybean.
On the Richter scale.
- Shay with Billy McBride

43.

The illumination, the slurpee

And the RBI.
Camouflaged snowflakes
That score low.
Hail and liquid lost.
Mothballs the malfunctions
Of mites.
Theater of foam
And lasers.
- Libby with Billy McBride

44.

Corinthian order.
The drake. Believe
Me, I was once
Drake. Drake.
Corinthian order on
The facade. A facade
Of power, praise and prayer.
Homonucleus. Rock and rest.
Jewel of the sky.
Jewel of the powerful.
A one-up jewel.
Zorro. Alack, nobody
Alone. Alack, drippy star.
Dogwood and curtain.
Curtain and the closet.
Clause, it. Remember.
Remember the moon.
The star the memory.
Star fades to song.
I burst out into song.
Song of the singing songwriter.
Drake. Let me alone
With the corinthian

And all will be well.

Rotation. Not a duck
To swim. Flight of
The bumblebee and
The drake. The bumblebee
The drake. Mark my words.
Mention my photo-studio
Dark room. Sunset.
Happy but sad.
Alack, jewel of
The kind. Fall
Sunset. Night
Sunset in my view.
Black be thy room.
Dark room. Dark
Mark of the one
They call. I know
I was a drake. Now
I am Zorro or a cop.
One or the other.
Zorro. Or. A. Cop.
Fit of fancy. Fancypants
In the college textbook.
Fancypants reading
The college textbook.
You know Corinthian,

Corinthian Corinthialanus?
Nobody was ready.
There was Zorro this guy
Mark of Zorro the wall
Marked or there was
His Zorro. Alph.
Salad and sunset.
Sunset of the sky.
Salad and sun rising.
Whew, the rope around
The horse on the trail.
I was going to
Rotate now I am
Going to rest. It
Is Tuesday. Sweet jellybean.
Jellybean eyes.
Jellybean heart.
Jellybean which your
Friend gives you to
Chucklepants and sweet pink lovin'.
Chucklepants biscuit and brain.
Brain of the rotation.
Corinthian brain.
Brain of the flood.
Zorro in the ocean.

- Donna with Billy McBride

45.
The aisle to Santa Fe.
Pick-up-the-Jacks.
The submarine the choo-choo.
Confetti. Black-out.
Chiffon blueprint.
Hazy. Bumper.
Optical weeds
On a walk.
An affordable blue-jean brand.
- Jennifer with Billy McBride

46.

The smoke in the supernova nova shroud

Passing the supernova passing the crowd
To the dell to the dell I yield
To dell and water and field.

Stars and water water is the power

Pick up Jacks for an hour

Jacks on the ground git dem all
The interesting Jacks very small.

Drake in the grass growing grass hair

Drake in the pond then in the air
Belief and chromosome sort of belong
To the plant down the street who is growing strong.

The Jacks and ball were child possessed

Then the ball and Jacks became blessed
Pick them up off of the ground
The drake in the street all around.

Tu-tu on the dancer small or great

The mountain the tu-tu the dancer's fate
Himmeleah O thou peak divine
A special case for love thine be mine.

The flea market jeans were sold put on

Blue jeans retail price pretty pawn
Happy to know you thus so far
Happy blue pink jellybean and star.

Horse and rope and rope again

Cowboy on a horse on the dusty plain

Late night yesterday turned to day

Horse horse horse horse stay!

Butter your Zucchini from the ground

Going down a road we unbound
Laughing at Zorro split my sides
The horse in action the Jacks and tides.

Call me crazy or call me a man

Chromosome and rope the tall horse ran
Selection of a process of something say
Muse number ten from nine away today.

Dogwood chiffon in the rain

Close to Zorro crossing the plain
Zorro who borrows everything from land
Borrows me to infinity my helping hand.

Salad of the sun the sun that flies

Sunshine or hail fell from the skies
Lovely weather outside for a bow
The storms racing away away go.

Hook up for breakfast say your grace

Trust with me the drippy night embrace
A slow mind makes the weather bad

Happy drake drake and landscape sad.

Call of the wild call of the shore

Song songwriter singing it roar roar roar
Tumultuous body of water my delight
Tumultuous flying through the air more the light.

Himmeleah and chariot surprise

Ghost of the mountain look at his eyes
Down we go to Santa Fe in vain
That I find the studio dark room plain.

- Kabbalah with Billy McBride

49.
Root. Beer.
A relaxing swig
Of root beer.
Ahh. My delicious
Beverage. Dragon wizard.
Wizard on the mountain.
Wizard in the earth.

Travertine sidewalk.
Cotton candy and wizard.
Popsicle and root beer.
Earthworm.
And wizard and
Wizard and wizard.
The baby shower on Tuesday.
A dragon wizard at
The mall. A baby
At the baby shower.
Pink cake with
Pink jellybeans.
Aquafresh.
Please light the laser.
Laser light show.
Lasers of the moon.
Shadow lasers and root beer.
Delicate lasers of the earth.
Wizard of the earth
Checking you out.
Lamp, lantern and light.
The pink lantern.
The pink jellybean on the
Table. Raisin.
Raisin on the pink jellybean.
Earthworm.

Baby shower, frost, lasers

And foam.
The foam of Mt. Himmeleah.
Sea foam. Salt foam. Earthworm foam.
I love my root beer.
I love my little
Foamy beverage.
Rutabaga.
Barracuda and rutabaga.
Jewel in the air.
Jewel. And the air
Lifted the wave and foam.
- Diana with Billy McBride

51.
Highway to the highway.
Skateboard.
Breakfast.
A bandana, the Ten commandments
And lasers.
Track and field.
A rubber ball
And a moth ball.
- Amy with Billy McBride

52.

Highway to the mountain.

Himmeleah heaven.
Time.
Early morning drive.
The boat.
The boat the beetle
And the banter.
Life.
Track and field.
Track the field.
Life and luxury.
The mountain of life.
The frost on the
Mountain of life.
Leather night teddy.
Teddy super teddy.
A red blue night teddy.
Baby at the
Baby shower.
Fantastic baby.
Feelings for the

Child the child.

Misunderstandings.
Lipstick and pink cake.
Red lipstick and
White icing.
The baby of the hour.
Fantastic hour baby.
A song sung by a songwriter.
Q-Bert.
Absentmindedness.
Standing in the frost
Of the mountain
Of the state
Of the country that is
By the foamy salty seashore.

- Elaine with Billy McBride

54.
Manila folder and foam.
Carnation.
Drizzling on the plains.
Mt. Himmeleah.
Memorabilia and the highway.

And jellybeans.
The garden near the curb.
The pony.
The shadows and the relaying
Of the cirrus clouds.
- Shay

55.
Jewels and velvet
And Jonah.
Tranquility and dawn.
The stars.
Flood and wind.
Lipstick.
Humidity, the field
And the highway.
- Elaine with Billy McBride

57.

Life and life.

Shadows of the pink

Jellybean. Grove.
Dell and a grove
Of oranges. Grove
Growing. Life.
Life on the prairies.
The prairie buffalo.
The prairie jellybeans.
The jellybeans in
The buffalo on the prairies.
Light. Supernovae.
The octopus in the aqua.
Aquamarine. Buffalo.
Buffalo and the seahorse.
Seahorse. Seahorse with
A family of buffaloes.
Water.
Water buffalo.
Water aqua cream.
Aquafresh buffalo
Of the hurricane.
Hurricane hippo.
Headlights of the highway.
Cream, nomad and supernovae.
Cream, nature and superbuffalo.
The buffalo and the hippo.
The highway cars

Of the highway
To heaven. Time
And hippopotamus.
The buffalo, the supernovae
And the birds.
Pig-iron skies.
Inchworm waiting
On a leaf.
Bird watching the wizards.
The wizards in the air.
The water-wizards of
The aqua on the beach.
Pink jellybean.
The forbidden fruit and
The snake and the nomad.
Creamy unripe strawberries.
The dell and the delicatessens.
Horse, seahorse and substitute.
The inchworm eating
The leaf on the grove.
Books.
Books and the stars.
Life with starry books.
Observatory on the
Mount. The mount,
The mountain where

The birds fly. The

Birds of the mountain.
Mount St. Helens. The juice
Of the pear. I, I.
The juice of the
Grape made into wine.
Wine-heart. Wine-song.
Lovable little inchworm
Singing in the trees.

- Elaine with Billy McBride

58.

Foam and icing.

Foam and icing.
Vineyards.
Foam and vineyards.
The way.

Fissures, flora
And floats.
Floating fish.
Floating flora.
The way shown.

The linen, the limits

And the ball-and-jacks.
The dirty linen.
The clean linen.
Show me the way.
Show them the way.

Mars and maps

And magicians.
The magic maps
Of Mars.
The magic maps
Of the way to be shown.

Night-teddies and Neptune.

Neptune or nothing.
Nimbus.
Nimbus, Neptune
Or nothing.
Nothing to show.
No way.

Fog, fractures
And flashlights.
Flashing flashlights

Through the fog.

Foggy fissures.
The foggy way.
The way through
The fog. Floating
Through the fog.
The fog.

- Shay with Billy McBride

61.

I object. I object.
The order is made.
The order is made
And the fries are ready.
I ooze to my fries.
But I object.
I object again
And again to my order.
I shovel the fries
Into my mouth.
They sway me.
Then I doze off.

I accomplished my dreams.
All I needed, my dreams
Were accomplished.
They were accomplished.
I ooze through my dreams.
I drag my duff out of bed
To take on the daily grind
That I object to.
What will arouse and
What will enhance my
Life? I have crossed
My tees and dotted my ies.
Enhancements and love.
What now? Where will I go?
The thirst for life and love
Are quenched. Etch-a-sketch.
All I do. My tees and ies are
Taken care of, crossed
And dotted.
Behave I say.
Even when I object
I must behave.
Mount Himmyleah.
I behave on the mountain.
Tees and ies, they are dotted.
What could pacify me

Upon my quest before

I doze off?
When I doze off,
What then?
And when I awake,
What next?
To doze off I find
My bed. I ooze there.
The ponderous object
Of a bed. Am I coerced
By sleep?
I will behave.
Nothing is more
Important than to concur
With dozing off when it
Is time. But I still object.
More. I object more to
The objections. This fuss
I make over objects too.
The ponderous objects
That I object to. What
Can I myself fix
That isn't already fixed?
I bop my head with my hand.
Bop. Bop.

- Diana with Billy McBride

62.

Give it up, give it up.

Give it up, give it up.
The mountain is not yours.
Give it up.
Mount Himmyleah.
The land around pressing
Into the earth, locked
Upon the landscape forever.
Give up and go and grasp
And jiggle and jump up.
Hop. Hop.
The river.
Hop.
The earth has
Scored big.
But it is
not yours
not mine
not theirs.
Ours is what is

What we ponder
And press out.
Etch-a-sketch.
Go. The birds
Swoop over the
Land. It is
More for them
Than for us.
For us. For us.
For us to realize
The realization.
Jiggle and jump.
Jump over the rope.
"2,4,6,8..."
Rope and the jumping.
Hop. Fling it out
And jump. The
Jumping of all
On the land
By the mountain.
Land fastened to land.
Hand fastened to hand.
Hand grasping rope.
Foot jumping on the landscape.
Reset.
Hooked on love.

Hooked on life.
Love and ponderous life.
Life hooked with life.

- Yafah with Billy McBride

63.
Lipstick on a monkey.
The red lipstick glows.
Monkey in the tree.
Lipstick for the kissing.
The rain drops.
A pencil drops down.
The writer stops writing.
The snow comes
And drops from the air.
Hail and storm.
A hailstorm.
The people run.
It is from the hail.
Travertine sidewalks.
The sidewalks look nice.
Pedestrians.
A travertine walk.

Creamy textured
Travertine to notice.
The air delights
When the storm
Blows away.
The land delights
When the traveler comes.
Creepy little inchworm.
The leaf delights the worm.
Shovel the hail.
I shovel the lava.
In the starlight,
I shovel the lava.
I have come outside.
I shovel the lava
Off the lawn.
Flora sprouts everywhere
From nook to nook.
The flora must be seen.
Indeed. There is nothing better.
Yet, the flora.
I complete my job.
The job completes me.
Where do I work
When the work is completed?
- Diana with Billy McBride