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Keith Buster Torkelson's Old.2 Prose

Keith Buster Torkelson's Old.2 Prose



12Step_PoemByKET_GodIsnt2008101104 V2024

In: 12-Step folder

 

For Now God Isn’t

By: Keith Edward Torkelson, MS

Rough Started: October 11, 2008

 


I’ve been trying to

Discover and

Determine what

God isn’t

 

I don’t think

He is the unit

Though he is in

The unit

 

I don’t think he is

The unit but

He is about the unit

 

Being the unit

Myself

I see trances

Of omnipotence in me

 

Yet,

I the unit

Am not omnipotent

 

If I see

Outside me

The unit

 

I look to

Not see the unit

I am part of

But about the unit

Is not equipotent

 

I the unit

Me

Achieves stillness

Or stasis

 

I have trouble

Seeing where I’ve been

Where God’s been

 

I cannot see

Where I am going or vision

Where God’s going or on mission

 

In this manner God

May be part of the

Moving or dynamic

 

If I look at

The past & the future

Only I lose touch

With were I am

 

And in this part

God is about the still or

Static

 

God may be All

When he is not

Something

And

Everything

 

God may everything

But he is

Not always all or

Nothing

 

God may be nothing

And not anything

God isn’t easy

God is a hard

Perpetrator to pin down


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PoemAntsAndBugsByKETc1979 V2024

 

ANTS & BUGS

By TORK

(Circa: 1979)

 

In at eight, shouldn’t be late

On the road in a few

Chevy, Ford, VW

If we only knew

Californians want, yet don’t need you

 

REDCAR, REDCAR

L.A. & Huntington knew

Why not you?

 

OTTO on the road

Cruisin with a load

H.P. says 5-5 tops

and never on hops

 

Insurance costs are high

So why don’t we fly?

Many do

Why not you?

 

ALL in ALL

While OPEC stand tall

Our system may fall

Let’s introduce gas-O-hol

Electric, Solar, or...

Something safer

 

REDCAR, REDCAR

L.A. & Huntington knew

Why not you?

 

OTTO says ought--to sow the seeds

Ought--to stop and sway the combustion

OTTO look

Ought-to think REDCAR

OTTO smell the smog

Listen to the noise

 

If you can...


PoemByKET_Happen20000118 V2024

 

WHAT HAS HAPPENED?

By Keith Torkelson

January 18, 2000

 

I am asking a part of me

With as much as I have learned now

About me

And mine

 

Why am I clueless?

In identifying

The nature of

The profound changes

That are occurring

 

This is now

Yet

Noting in the past

I believe

That

 

God may have happened

 

My friends

Those I lusted with

Faithful animals

Plants that yield the gas of life

 

What the hell is going on?

 

Please guide me

When you can

Guide me to healing

That I may function anew

 

Not so much a repeat

More a revision

A reformation

 

Accessing love energy

To reclaim the best

And order the rest

 

 

Exercise my

Spirit and mind

My body and emotions

In accord with

The mainstream

Under the authority of recovery

PoemByKET_JustRight19980127 V2024

 

THE ONE WHO FEELS JUST RIGHT

By KE Torkelson

January 27, 1998

 

Oh!

Lord

Hear these words

Of mine

 

Today I am looking

For love

I have been searching

All my life

From the day I open my eyes

 

Lately I discovered

That you Lord

May be the one

I needed and need

The most

 

Oh! Lord

Hear these words

Of mine

 

Offer me patience

Infinite

Because I just feel

The best

Is yet to come

 

In time will you

Show me

“The Way”

And your way

 

You I believe are

The One

All

The one who feels

Just – Right

Amen


PoemByKET_Law_09100403 V2024

In: Deliverables or Poetry folder: Initial: 2009100403


Law and His Sister Order

By: Keith Edward Torkelson, MS

October 4, 2009

 


Don’t know where to start

Tell tale knowledge of their arts

When only you are up against him

Hopefully she will help you address

Your sins

 

I doodle legally a bit with that

Scale thing

The O-Haus of Justice

 

I’m leaning a bit more

To the Right

In the face of The Others’

Might

 

Making many more decisions

Of Good

In the face of Should

And Could

Or What If?

 

What if you are held

Accountable for your thoughts

Or lack thereof

 

What if you had Freedom to

Act on The Solution

Remember the men

With the solutions

 

Crimelessness

Cause no one goes foodless

And a gal named sanction

Thou shall kill ignited in

A flame of war

 

I did my best in this to avoid

Law

Including the upper class litigators

 

As Ecclesiastes may be paraphrased

It is all blown in the wind

Yet, fear God

Fear Law

And follow Order … Straight

 

Again, the hammer may

Fall

Yet, not by my hand

Khan 2

 

It appears God may have contracted out

While the stage remains dark and clear

For “The Splitting” by Christ

 

A-People – Team Earth

Did anyone hear any dinosaur talking again?


PoemByKET_TheyCome20000101 (5) v2024

 

They Come

By Keith Torkelson

January 1, 2000 (Tuesday)

 

They come

When I urinate

I think some of them miss it

 

They come

At times

When I eat

 

He

That bad guy

Has come for Sunday lunch

Leaves me

All torn up

 

They come

I think

Even at times

When I sleep

 

And then they

Just come

Whenever

 My guard is down

 

They are

 

The passed

Expired

Released

The dead

 

They are also

 

Those that never

Were

Those that could be

And those that

Most believe are not

 

They Come, it is Real


Tracking Information

 

PoemByKET_Whisper_100424a V2024

<<<< a:deafsnd19971210_Short >>> In: Poetry folder

Initial: 19971210: Shortened: 20100424:

Shorten version of DeafSound for MHSA/Wellness Center calendar

Now new poem called “Whisper”

 

 Whisper

[Author: KE Torkelson: 12-10-97: Shortened & modified: 20100424]

Word count = 43, includes title

 

 

Into words

The ways we feel

Reminded in daily living

 

 Quietly meditating, reframing

In permeated connection

Our warm embraces

 

Reigned upon our journeys

Developing, growing, performing

For our betterment

 

Knowing eternal peace

In your hands

 

With deafening sound

Whispering, we love you

 

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PoemByKETAlone19971101 V2024

 

FEELING LONELY?

By: Keith E Torkelson

November 1, 1997

 

Alone again?

You could call a friend

You could go out and visit people

Or you could go to your group

 

Is it loneliness?

Or some other feeling

Have you had enough sleep?

Temptation to mood alter, can you resist?

 

Are you sad or mad?

Do you feel hurt?

Have you eaten enough so you are not hungry?

 

Alone in a crowd

Is sleeping with her the cure?

Content?

I think I know an answer?

 

I AM YOUR LOVING GOD

I AM WITH YOU NOW

ASK ME FOR THE HELP YOU NEED

BE NEVER ALONE AGAIN.


PoemByKETBeatenDawg2006102001 V2024

Doc. 20061020.01

In: Poem folder

 

Poem:

Anger Stimulates the Beaten Dog

(Page 6 of 2006 to 2007 in patient notebook)

By: Keith Edward Torkelson, MS

Drafted: October 20, 2006

 

I’m checked into Westminster Residential Therapeutic Center (WTRC)

It is October of the year

Make note some of my closest relatives are against me

My aunt, first cousins, and siblings

 

Basically, my environment has not integrally improved

 

My most loved one and significant other, Joan

Is angry with me

And may still be afraid of me

 

I’m feeling a bit like a beaten dog

Cowering my eyes as once trusted others approach

 

Yet, now part of me wishes to go home

Back to the same

As they say, insanity is trying the same thing

Expecting different results

 

Yet at home, Joan’s home now

I have Ms. Bunny Rabbit (MBR)

I wish to see her one more time before she dies

Even if I risk jail, due to my overbalance of fear

 

Now my providers are voting for me

To enter the Conservatorship loop

To land a conservator for the first time

 

If I feel terrified of meeting a train that doesn’t let up

I may just be safest permanently locked down

 

If this occurs, I desire

Electro-convulsive therapy (ECT) to burn out the pain, the fear, the phobia

No not that, I’m changing my mind again

 

I want to: Go …

Back home to start anew

Back with Joan

Back with my materials

An hopefully not back to suffer Joan’s anger on me

 

Please Joan, bring me my wallet that's astray

Containing my basic identity and tools

When you next visit me at WTRC

Westminster Residential Therapeutic Center

Westminster County of Orange California


PoemByKETBeing19990706 v2024

 

System Crash and the Nature of Being

By Keith Torkelson

July 6, 1999

 


I invite your being

To visit again

We share space

I can’t see you anymore

Because you’re passed the point

Of unlikely return

 

I ask you

Is this His water you drink?

Do you release it changed?

In composition

As we do

Here in 3D

 

You move towards

Me for a day

Then passing

He let you die

I dream in no pain

 

We remain behind

In this potential

Heaven on Earth

 

You awaken

In a new home

In his

Holy Kingdom

 

We remaining here

Sleeping

While you celebrate

Release and

Meditate

On his principles

 

 

 

 

 

You might feel

We taste

You may touch

We smell

Do you still hear?

 

I believe I am

Beginning to see

My nature of being

We are A-men

Short lived

Possibly eternal

 

Know in a manner

I loved you

As I loved no

Other


PoemByKETCatPurrs20001031 V2024

 

Kitten Purrs

By Keith Torkelson

October 31, 2000 (Tuesday, 11:55am)

I awoke this morning

With my kitten

A real pal

He is

This kitty

Who maybe I will name

Serenity

 

I watched the sky

Clear to blue and

Crystal clear after a rainstorm

 

She is out there

The beauty I need

The girl to share

My bed and home

And my peculiar wealth

 

I’m needing love

With which I

Will kiss her carmine lips

Caress her spirit

Will listen and learn

Of her odyssey on this rock

Our mom, Earth

 

I will offer a rose

Smelling so sweet

A rose of white it shall be

For purity

 

Then propose in my manner

To commit for life

To care

And be kind to her

 

Her name is “True”

She can stand alone

Though she reaches

Over to me

For > Honesty > Loyalty

For Patience

 

I can tell her what I feel

For real

Glad

Sometimes mad

 

I’m hoping to never hurt her

Yes that is my ideal

 

With her I will dwell in

Yet another house

A home in a home of

Of God the Father

 

I ask him to

Give me away

And may we discover love

Everlasting

Not even in

Death

Do Us Part

 

Cause we will then

Be one and another

In the kingdom

My queen

And I

The woman of my dream

 

Now back

To that

Cat

That sits purring on my chest

A slip this was into

A dream of the day

A daydream


PoemByKETDonotLaugh20020830 V2024

 

YOU DON’T LAUGH

By Keith Torkelson

August 30, 2002

 

Never really laughed much

Remembering comedy

And comedians

At The Laugh Stop

In Newport

 

They could get me

To laugh

Laugh

Till

My gut ached

 

I don’t laugh much

Anymore

I think laughing

Really stopped

 

For the

Haldol Man

And the

Navane Crawley Man

 

Right now

It is August

Thirtieth

Two thousand

And two

 

Though

I don’t laugh

Much

I have a lot to be

Happy about

 

Yet I wish I could really

Let out a good healthy

Hearty

Laugh!


PoemByKETDyingDog20040104 V2024

 

THE DYING DOG

By Keith Torkelson

January 4, 2004

 


I really wish to die

Actually be euthanized

Tonight at eleven pm

 

I have a simple request

That the mediator

Provide me with a dying dog

 

No

It’s not the dog that is dying

It’s a dog to die with

To hold during the passage

 

So I may feel in my

Last

Warmth and comfort

Peace and calm

And in the final moments

Relieve my life’s pain

 

Miraculously she takes

What not they have offered to bare

As she nestles

Near my heart

 

I’m thinking right now

That the

Dying dog, a girl

Small dog

Lovable and loving dog

Is with what I wish

To release, pass

And dissociate

 

To die with something

From which I can feel

Real love

From her

This dying dog

 

Now to God I pray

Please send me my

Dying dawg

And a skilled euthanist

Now

Before hell returns

As losing control

Of my mind, heart, body, and soul

 

Amen


PoemByKETGirlGone20020801 V2024

 

NO GIRL! GONE!

By Keith Torkelson

August 1, 2002

 

I called my girl

Joan

A moment ago

Eight ‘o five AM

She answered

 

I said, Hi!

 

She said,

I know you are real busy

Starting your new life

I am starting

My new life

This morning

 

She said,

I wish you the best

Of luck

Keith…

 

Then a click

And she hung up

 

I feel lousy

Very sad

Tears forming in my

Eyes

 

Why did she do that?

Cause she was afraid?

That I would do it

Maybe

 

Joan

I hurt before you

Got hurt with you

I try not to hurt others

Cause I am hurting

As you have

 

I actually liked her

At times wanted

To be

With her

Till the end…











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