Moon Mind

By Ike Knife

This book of poems is a collection of thoughts, feelings and ideas written in the aftermath of the Covid flu pandemic. These words document some noteworthy moments of clarity uncovered along the way. They express some of the joys and frustrations experienced by many but also provide actionable food for thought as we continue striving to navigate the tumultuous times in which we live. Sincere questions concerning the verifiable truth of the mainstream narratives that saturate the media and bombard us daily are explored in the hope that such authenticity and candor will assist in your personal quest for self-actualization, understanding and inner peace. Blind obedience is blindness. Healthy, productive individuals in a free society are best served in a respectful environment of self-discovery where one does not have to fear ridicule or social stigma for courageously considering and evaluating ideas for their own innate value.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Feb 19, 2023
• ISBN: 9781669867753

Ike Knife

Ike Knife is a former teacher, coach, principal, and executive director. He has owned and operated his own educational consulting firm and has lived and worked abroad in both the Far and Middle East. He currently resides in the Middle East, where he continues to work in the field of public education, and is completing another advanced degree in leadership. He is married and has a son. He devotes his free time to his passions: meditation, exercise, volunteer work, and writing about spiritual and social issues in the hope that his words can serve, in some capacity, the general betterment of humankind.

Book preview

Copyright © 2023 by Ike Knife.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Getty Images are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

Certain stock imagery © Getty Images.

Rev. date: 02/15/2023

Xlibris

844-714-8691

www.Xlibris.com

848425

CONTENTS

Alba

As

Broken

Bustle

Cage

Cosmic Egg

Dazzle

Disambiguation

Domicile

DSD

Empty

Five P

Flowers

Fly

Found

Frequency

G

Genocidal neon

H & B

Harvey

Hermitage

Herringbone

Hide Inside

Homunculus

Idaho

I Fall

Inject

Into This

Just Past Jain

Justice

Knights of Momus

Last Dance

Learning

Legends

Legion

Lust

Lyrical mysterical (reprise)

Mack

Mango

Mantis

Market for Darkness

Marsh

Menticide

Mimetic

Minus 90

Monkey Pole

Movie

Mountain

Nguyen

Noodling

Nothingness

One Shot

Passing Through

Pavlov

Presage

Purge

Prime

Quack

Question

Redeemed

Renegade

Rhyme

Ruts ‘n’ Cuts

Say nothing

Serapis

Shade

Shaman

Silence

Skins

Skirt the Con

Solarium

Something Else

Stowaway

Stream

Soulmate

Sullied

Tartaria

Told

Train

Tree

Undercroft

Unwrap

The Universe Within

Vitrify

Welcome Wagon

Wind

Years

ALBA

Sweet sassy hellcat

Brogue Scottish lilt

My mind is thinking

Of donning a kilt

Numinous nubile

Dressed to the hilt

Venomous vixen

Playing the jilt

Thinking about her

Makes my heart wilt

Living without her

Fills me with guilt

River run rampant

Bed full of silt

Abundance a plenty

Mountain man tilt

Callous creek blister

Cabin got built

Off grid resister

Bard on a stilt

1.jpg

AS

When the flowers fade

And the sky turns grey

And the sands of time

Wash us all away

Who will know your name?

Our youth flies by

Like a carnival ride

When we’re young we try

To take it all in stride

What do we think we gain?

The generations grow

Like a falling snow

Shall cover the ground

In the moonlight’s glow

These are the moments that count

The babes of the young

Like a song still unsung

Make a peaceful hum

Put smiles on everyone

Remind what it’s truly about

The times that we cared

All our kindnesses shared

Our souls have been bared

Our hearts are now paired

Saturated with love

Every child in time

Has their own little prime

A forum to shine

A mountain to climb

A destiny to fulfill

Like an endless breeze

Caresses live oak trees

And the snowbird flees

From the winter’s freeze

All things as they are

BROKEN

Trails of broken glass

In sunset’s dying glow

Strewn upon the ground

Like California snow

Roadway full of death

A painful path of tears

Anger and the anguish

Are written in your fears

Sudden, dark surprise

Feelings born of storm

Emotions like a knife

Dreams are ripped and torn

An evil wind befell us

Tribulation time

Suffering like dogs

Cut down in our prime

Frustrated and bewildered

By cunning necromancers

Why must we endure this?

Questions go unanswered

Everything was challenged

What we thought we knew

Upside down is normal

In this new cosmic view

Verily a villain

Sauntered into town

Surveyed all the landscape

And threw his money down

He’s vain and he’s disdainful

A menacing, mean man

Exacts his retribution

Deploys his payback plan

Feel his fairy fury

His vengeance knows no bounds

He’s nasty, cool and caustic

And loves his stolen crown

Wounded in the battle

We must survive the night

Live to fight tomorrow

And step into the light

Desolation angels

Bleeding from our gashes

Ignore the dark temptations

And rise up from the ashes

Integrity is doing

Things we know are right

Humility sustains us

Defines our inner might

Depression is a demon

We cannot let take hold

Crazy thoughts engulf us

We shiver in the cold

Jagged little pillbox

Promise falsely spoken

Beckons like a piper

When your whole world is broken

2.jpg

BUSTLE

The bustle’s in your hedgerow

A spring clean for the June queen

Their castles made of playdough

Began in 1619

The superficial day glow

They added to the ice cream

Was shot out from a longbow

And traveled through the slipstream

My random redneck one-offs

Your platitudes and clichés

Are imitation knockoffs

Of psychedelic forays

The 90’s TV spinoffs

Derived from flunky essays

Were drunken master rip-offs

Of outrage in the hallways

Rarely are there reasons

For angry conversations

Changing of the seasons

Bring doctor consultations

Puncturing the lesions

Your painful new