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Thoughts by Chuck JohnsonFeb 20, 201912:13 am
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Standing in Slow Motion (2/2019)

Blasted off for at least two years. My rocket, crafted sans landing gear. Countdown, fuse and watch it go. Slow motion fireworks show. Crawling light cannot explode. Learning to embrace embracing my crazy. Rearranging. To […]

Thoughts by Chuck JohnsonFeb 20, 201912:11 am
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Telephones (2/2019)

What do I live for? Why do I breathe? What am I seeking that will make me me? What can I give up? What do I need? Who fills my heart, of the souls that […]

Thoughts by Chuck JohnsonFeb 20, 201912:10 am
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Away From Myself (2/2019)

It’s where you’re going. It’s where you’ve been. It’s all your angels. It’s all your sin. To learn surrender. To lean on time. To know no ending. To find your rhyme. How I got here. […]

Thoughts by Chuck JohnsonFeb 12, 20191:58 am
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Sense of Revolution (2/2019)

I left on the right side of the wrong road, I suppose. Who can make any sense of my seven senses? I’d give my two cents about all of this, everything, but this mind’s a […]

Thoughts by Chuck JohnsonFeb 12, 20191:57 am
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Faywood Dreams (2/2019)

To see the brightest eyes of your very best friend. To wait for them at the airport again. Faywood Springs, the happiest you’ve ever been. Always dug those pants. Always dug the way you dance. […]

Thoughts by Chuck JohnsonFeb 12, 20191:55 am
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Please Don’t Pave This (2/2019)

Thought I’d take some time today to catch some sunshine. Take it off, really feel it. Feels good to really feel it. Time leaves answers to questions that nobody’s ever thought to ask. Time, bring […]

Thoughts by Chuck JohnsonFeb 12, 20191:52 am
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Maybe I’m Crazy (2/2019)

Honestly, didn’t hear it coming. Honestly, out of the blue. Maybe I’m just crazy and I don’t know what I do. Wonder if it will ever come back. Wonder if I will let go. Maybe […]

Thoughts by Chuck JohnsonFeb 12, 20191:50 am
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Winter’s Glow (2/2019)

Dozing off in TV clothes. Summer falls into winter’s glow. I made my way backwards through the snow so no one could ever track me down. Play for me, like cool jazz cats. Worry free […]

Thoughts by Chuck JohnsonFeb 12, 20191:48 am
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Anything at All (2/2019)

Like leaves leave, Thursday evening, left wondering. The next me. Almost evening, day is wondering. Why does anything exist? Why does anything happen? Songs sing silently, inside of me. Space falls from the sky all […]

Thoughts by Chuck JohnsonFeb 12, 20191:45 am
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Looking Back at Wild (1/2019)

She was standing there, eyeing me down, smiling in the corner. Looking back, I should’ve warned her that I leave myself at times. Looking back, I think I did. I always saw all this coming. […]

Thoughts by Chuck JohnsonFeb 12, 20191:42 am
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Delirious Goddess Picture Show (1/2019)

‘Untie my mind and show me what I know. Climb on my back, I will bring us all home.’ He stuck his time to shells of snails. Took some time, went off the rails. Called […]

Thoughts by Chuck JohnsonFeb 12, 20191:40 am
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All I Heard Was After (1/2019)

Hey there, perfect soul. Evening, take it slow. You don’t need to run anymore. Hey there, morning girl. Wake up, it’s your world. Find you, free to fly like a bird. To go get what […]

Thoughts by Chuck JohnsonFeb 12, 20191:37 am
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Corncob Tourist (1/2019)

Sparrow spills soul in the stardust. Bliss band’s cookin’ on the water. I made a mountain in the middle of the ocean and none of this really matters. They’re all howling up at the air. […]

Thoughts by Chuck JohnsonFeb 12, 20191:32 am
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Old Weather (1/2019)

The poor boy stands there, it’s six o’clock as he looks up at the ceiling. ‘Oh, mother, where are you? I feel you out there somewhere… I’ve got an idea, I’ll build a rocket. Yeah. […]

Thoughts by Chuck JohnsonFeb 12, 20191:26 am
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Shelter in the Sand (1/2019)

She knows all ‘bout tragic. She knows he’s her man. She spins in her whirlpool life, reaching for his hand. She don’t see his magic. She don’t know ‘bout calm. She laughs at the thought […]

Thoughts by Chuck JohnsonFeb 12, 20191:25 am
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Going to Wrigley (1/2019)

See, splash, soar. Back off the boat today, I’m flying. I’ll be captain for a while. Feeling’s so familiar, it’s been such a long time. I left me. Don’t know when, come down just to […]

Thoughts by Chuck JohnsonFeb 12, 20191:23 am
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One Dollar Cuban? (1/2019)

Second story. First story from this second story balcony. I don’t speak this language. Middle seat, balanced anguish, before I landed. Right by the beach. Wrong turns down memory lane on this balcony. I can’t […]

Thoughts by Chuck JohnsonFeb 12, 20191:21 am
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How’s My Weather? (1/2018)

Didn’t mean lose me on the beach by the border. And I wish I had stayed while she was building surfboards, and more. Watch her smile, create, I’m always late. She said she works too […]

Thoughts by Chuck JohnsonFeb 12, 20191:17 am
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Untitled Sunset (1/2019)

Clouds steeped in puddles, the sun was losing steam. Trees were losing focus, like roots chasing a dream. Fire was in the water, old sand was way up high. Footprints in the distance, I looked […]

Thoughts by Chuck JohnsonFeb 12, 20191:14 am
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Everything’s In Pencil (1/2018)

Baker, could you tell me what time it is? Doctor, how long I got left? I’m steady, I’m ready when you are. My calendar’s just penciled in. With your pen, I go. I take a […]

Thoughts by Chuck JohnsonFeb 12, 20191:11 am
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Morning Jay (1/2018)

Came across an old man that I’ve met before, at the station. Blocked off, filled up, we spoke about dreams, looney bins, my old sins, and then I went on my way. He said boy, […]

Thoughts by Chuck JohnsonFeb 12, 20191:10 am
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Fix the Mirror (1/2018)

See a whole life behind me. Tilt the mirror, sail the road. I’ve got to do this on my own. Oh, sky blue lights behind me. Fix the mirror, feel the heat. Steal the money, […]

Thoughts by Chuck JohnsonFeb 12, 20191:02 am
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Lectures on Funny (1/2019)

Funny how we run when life’s frozen. Easier to get it out when it’s all easy. Lectures with ourselves. At the podium, in the back row at the same time. Not paying attention. Give ourselves […]

Thoughts by Chuck JohnsonFeb 12, 20191:01 am
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Who’s Painting? (1/2019)

One day, I’d love to live where the fringe of the sea collides with the sky. Discover where those colors went, who’s painting? Don’t dissolve these, live where all those colors went, out by the […]

Thoughts by Chuck JohnsonFeb 12, 201912:58 am
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Tuppence for Paper (1/2019)

Strung my imagination on a kite watched it take flight, man it was windy. Just beneath the cloud is where I found my place. Just this side of the cloud. It’s all seen, never captured […]

Thoughts by Chuck JohnsonFeb 12, 201912:57 am
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Miss the Ground (1/2019)

I walked up high on a telephone line. I tripped, didn’t fall, I was flying. Man, I was a plane. Little wire runway, never call my name. Boy, I’ve gone insane. Flutter outside to a […]

Thoughts by Chuck JohnsonFeb 12, 201912:55 am
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One-way Avenues (1/2019)

Finds polaroids in her pocket on her ride to work. Fingerprint paint that’s stamped on smiles. Love. He’s in the sand, he’s so over the hill. Loses himself, not here, then gone. Now stayed. Twisted. […]

Thoughts by Chuck JohnsonFeb 12, 201912:54 am
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Stepped in a Puzzle (1/2019)

Preachers preach about a person nobody will ever know. They won’t meet him. Think they need him. They’ve done nothing, He’s done all. How ridiculous is that? Give ‘Him’ all the credit. Smile, never shout. […]

Thoughts by Chuck JohnsonFeb 12, 201912:52 am
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Nap (1/2019)

From up in my apartment, I look out and see a street. Screams behind me, startling, coming from my TV. Green, tired eyes to windows. Look out, I hear four feet. From frames behind, of […]

Thoughts by Chuck JohnsonFeb 12, 201912:51 am
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This Past 31st (1/2019)

Pumps and lungs. Deflated aliens taking up space, so I glide on back to the alley. Dressed their best. Movement, that wonder under confetti. I’ve never had a dream like this. Wonder when I’ll wake […]

Thoughts by Chuck JohnsonFeb 12, 201912:50 am
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Remember January (12/2018)

Crawling up to easy. Crawling up to free. Crawling up this lifelong path to be what we will be. Bring us back to laughing. Bring us back to smiles. Bring us back to dirt road […]

Thoughts by Chuck JohnsonFeb 12, 201912:48 am
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One Day, Sunset (12/2018)

Walk for years to find me, because I don’t know where I’ve been. I am not where I am right now. All we are is ever falling, until we hit the ground. Running. ‘They already […]

Thoughts by Chuck JohnsonFeb 12, 201912:46 am
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Cycles Off Track (12/2018)

Am I way ahead? Did they already pass? How will I ever make anything last? If I wait for you, will you wait for me? I wrote you a song, but I can’t really sing. […]

Thoughts by Chuck JohnsonFeb 12, 201912:44 am
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What Week (12/2018)

It happened again. I snapped. I never realize it until I’m back. That was a week. Did nobody see? Does nobody know they can reach out to me? Normal me, falling so calmly to the […]

Thoughts by Chuck JohnsonFeb 12, 201912:43 am
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Morning Drive (12/2018)

I wake up, Pour warm, iced, coffee. Go for my drive. It’s the morning. Windows down, the fresh air suits me. Turn up my songs, it’s my morning. I’ve seen children running around. I’ve seen […]

Thoughts by Chuck JohnsonFeb 12, 201912:41 am
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Never Now (12/2018)

Not sure how this will end, so I should, at least, begin. Not sure where to go, maybe tomorrow I’ll know. Get ahead, fall behind. Wreck through life. Be so blind. Storm around in a […]

Thoughts by Chuck JohnsonFeb 12, 201912:40 amFebruary 12, 2019
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Puzzles, Kings and Queens (12/2018)

A cup of cold coffee in the morning, to the corner where she decorates dreams. He’d always go down there when he was in town. Down to visit the queen in hopes she’d dance and […]

Thoughts by Chuck JohnsonFeb 12, 201912:37 am
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Someplace New (12/2018)

You keep walking into that wall. Just take a step back. See that door? That door’s to someplace new. Unknown, different, uncomfortable. Kinda like me. Someplace new takes getting used to. What decides on the […]

Thoughts by Chuck JohnsonFeb 12, 201912:35 am
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Southern & Rural (12/2018)

Out. After the sun. The sun, it won somehow. I was driving home and I caught a shooting star, listening to the wolves on an old album that she sent me. Out. Under the night. […]

Thoughts by Chuck JohnsonFeb 12, 201912:32 am
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Time Machine (12/2018)

He sees hands on one screen, His wires skip to future memories, ‘Stuff me in my time machine and take me to right now.’ She is sorcery. This is so surreal. Time is sorcery. She […]

Thoughts by Chuck JohnsonFeb 12, 201912:30 am
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In his World (12/2018)

From another place or from another time, he drove outside to take a stroll in his mind. Makes up he’s a fire. Tells him it’s just rain. ‘Soon’, he says, ‘the light comes back.’ In […]

Thoughts by Chuck JohnsonFeb 12, 201912:28 am
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Spill Sometimes (12/2018)

She pulled him out, she fell right in. She told him just to let her swim. The coffee spilled, it always does, and she got mad because he was. Sometimes it all spills a little […]

Thoughts by Chuck JohnsonFeb 12, 201912:27 am
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Break the Beach (12/2018)

I’ll just sit here and watch the sunrise, see what happens. Something’s always happening. They say time is undefeated, do they know I am too? Your realest smile is in your eyes. I can see […]

Thoughts by Chuck JohnsonFeb 12, 201912:24 am
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Won’t Fold (12/2018)

I’ll take a trolley to my youth, Go do the things I used to do. Those things always got me through and back then this was easy. • I’ll spend a day with my best […]

Thoughts by Chuck JohnsonFeb 12, 201912:21 am
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Allowed to Breathe (12/2018)

The TVs on, but there’s nothing on and he can’t sleep. Wonders why the deep end’s on the wrong end and then doesn’t care to care. He likes it that way. Anchors must be allowed […]

Thoughts by Chuck JohnsonFeb 12, 201912:09 am
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Push Me (11/2018)

Mend me, bend me, break me. Push me ’til I’m the dumbest person in the room. Surround me with genius. Push me out of place so I’ll feel easy and one day, maybe, get some […]

Thoughts by Chuck JohnsonFeb 12, 201912:06 am
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Demon Dancing (11/2018)

All the, none the, sleep I get. The demons here, they’re so upset. They live next to a cigarette that sleeps above my ear. All the fun that we forget. The memories there, they lost […]

Thoughts by Chuck JohnsonFeb 12, 201912:05 am
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Spotlight Ride (11/2018)

Walk out of this opera, ‘cause I worry that she’ll sing. Wasn’t ready when it started, so what does this really mean? Slide out of this orchestra when my chair sits way up there. It’s […]

Thoughts by Chuck JohnsonFeb 12, 201912:03 am
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Lost in the Distance (11/2018)

Lights blink in the distance and I don’t know why, Imagination says, ‘old smiles saying hi.’ Talk to myself more than you these days, so I look up to the sky. Radio, silence, and another […]

Thoughts by Chuck JohnsonFeb 12, 201912:00 am
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Take My Time (11/2018)

I take my time, but it gets so quiet. Silence. When I get back to normal. Still don’t know what that means. Speak. Give a sign you know you’ll be fine. Bridges sings, ‘take me […]

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