Time Absent Poems

The children are sleeping
Well they’re in bed at least
Family in the kitchen 
Preparing the feast .

The presents are wrapped
Nestled under the tree 
I sit alone...

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Pieces

I gather things I thought were important, 
that don't seem quite that way anymore. 
There are pictures of the past, 
and lists of goals for...

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Time is an absent father
who doesn't show any loyalty
for anything under the sun
in the blink of an eye
it dashes away like a sprinter
faster than it...

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Absent Friend

They dusted me down after twenty years.
Come to my birthday, have a few beers.
We missed you so much my dear friend.
Sorry about the invites...

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I used to blame myself 
For your absence in my life
I thought maybe you didn’t love me
Maybe I was right

Your in my life always leaving...

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The Uniforce
turned through our faces 
we watch a clock to keep the meaningful places 
running, turning hands amok - 
in small space while we stand...

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If God stinks like red herring and our souls do not exist,
if every star’s an ember that will only burn awhile,
if ‘Big Bang’ falls back...

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Scene beneath is utterly true
   Veracious (ridiculous) account
   Told by me from baby eye view,  
    -...

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Ben Sana Mecburum: “You are indispensable”
by Attila Ilhan
translation by Nurgul Yayman and Michael R. Burch

You are indispensable; how can you not know
that you’re like nails...

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Ben Sana Mecburum
by Attila Ilhan
translation by Nurgul Yayman and Michael R. Burch

You are indispensable; how can you not know
that you’re like nails riveting my brain?
I...

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Working past with words of flaw,
winding world and shielding thoughts;
dreaming across the points of low,
wondering minds next where to go?

If we act like we don’t...

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BLONDE – ABSENT MINDED OR FAIR?

CLIENT
Goodness, gracious me,
Come over here and see,
How did you dare,
You have no flair,
My hair now’s dark,
It should be fair,
You’ve cut...

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Clock counts the time on its hands
Soft
Slience stands
Lack becomes
Grains of sand
Only notice when stuck to our feet
Retreat
Washed away
Mud
They name is
And no one recalls
Why
Once we are...

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I’ve been getting so lost in my head
I barely notice things going on.
I forget where i am,
What i’m doing at the time.
I tune out everything...

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They say patience is virtue,
but time waits for no man.

I longed for the one in my life,
but he never found me.

Fantasies are for cartoons
and dreams...

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