The Paradiddle of Being - Book One: The Struck World
...I.
In the beginning was the Single Stroke Roll—
left-right, left-right, the primordial heartbeat
of existence itself, each alternation a binary choice
between being and non-being...
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Categories:
alternation, childhood, identity, introspection, loss,
Form: Spoken Word
Samsara - May 7
...Now quiet, settled, easy, leisurely
through life’s affairs,—say, couched in everyday—
and sipping being’s sweetest, freshest ray;
Sunshine!, Sunshine! ‘midst winter’s coldest glee!
Now trouble...
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Categories:
alternation, desire, destiny, humanity, life,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Tensions
...TENSIONS
virtues
or flaws
underscored
&
restrained
then
reined-in
an
alternation
of
restraint
in
motion
a
versatile
satire
of
mood
in
poignancy
&
grace
NOTE:THIS IS AN OP...
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Categories:
alternation, poetry,
Form: Other
Our Burden
...Humanities burden
Something nihilistic is churning on my mind what if strife is embedded in our psyche
normality is war punctuated by peace; the peace is prosperous but wallowing in
the softne...
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Categories:
alternation, abuse, angel, animal,
Form: Blank verse
Visit To Antietam
...Alone I arrive, walking from Frederick
over the gaps, across gentle hills
out onto a knoll
overlooking this burnished landscape.
Before me I see countless writhing rows
of indiscernible shapes g...
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Categories:
alternation, america, conflict, history, together,
Form: Ode
Life's Oscillation
...The continuum of life is enveloped by existence,
the residual effect from the nature of resistance-
I’ve seen the consecution of time when I wonder,
and felt the chain reaction when b...
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Categories:
alternation, life, space, time,
Form: Couplet
A Modern Tribute To Antiquity
...A bit I have travelled, in the cities of this world
Each with a history – a tale that can be told
Through the lens of the roving tourist’s eye
Who often does, with some wonder, sigh
As an ancie...
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Categories:
alternation, historycity, history,
Form: I do not know?