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Exiles

...Potent grief exists in the paternoster
recited by exiles each break of dawn —
and they never cease to mourn with drums.

Exiles are men
with two lives,
and they often fast,
preferring to sip g...

endless leisure hours as distorted time stretch before me

...endless leisure hours as distorted time stretch before me...

like the infinite vista
upon the midwestern plain
farther than the eyes of mine
(an ascetic and copacetic
shortsighted father of tw...

Fool For Poetry

...
Amouage is given
to the Pope, the King, the Queen
some we offer willingly others begrudgingly
the honorable can be challenged or challenging
the dishonored deemed unworthy,
placed upon ...

Lost dexterity since fingers tap away at qwerty keyboard

...Lost dexterity since fingers tap away at qwerty keyboard...

since being a student in grade, junior and high school
analogous to geometry proof how lack of use proves
quite aware that finger musc...

Why Have You Forsaken Me?

...Hello? Can you hear me?
I feel like I’ve been shouting my sorrows at nothing at all
Are you ignoring me? Are you even real?
Why have you forsaken me?

I say it while I shake an angry fist at the...

Yet I Thought

...
When thoughts become obsessive,
is my heart being made redundant,
laid off, cast off, sent astray 
recycled pulse rates mere skip hire fodder,
atrophied organ sinking into deep morass,
panic s...

Flute and Citole

...Her sound functioned in the chorus
of onlooker in my defeat.
Might the Strumb of Kokopelli
danced to the songs of Shiva
and Bragi. I smiled days later
that my retribution might silence
the cele...

Atrophied Love

...Our Love, Eternally Bound

Our love is embodied in words,  
clinging to our lips, yet fated to never touch the real,  
forever exiled from taking form.

We whisper "I love you" day and night,  ...

Everything and no one

...I gaze at the Highlands’ mountains and try to force myself to feel joy in its entirety.  
But I can’t.  
Look how beautifully the sun plays on the rocks like its pressing keys: white for light, bla...

signs of autumn

...leaves tumbling from trees
wild geese honking overhead~
bright orange pumpkins

frost-etched window panes
crimson canopies aflame~
scarecrows atrophied

carved jack-o-lanterns
bare n...

Allowing Myself to Petrify

...I am in a stupor
a hypnotic daze
my feet no longer work
they have atrophied
soon my body will be a statue
completely petrified

I can blame no one but myself
my recliner is too comfy
If I to...

The Gray Pods

...
In pods, pale and emaciated-
muscles atrophied, 
their eyes behind thick goggles
deflecting stroboscopic lights-
they sit for hours with empty smiles.

Each human in a private pod
lo...

Our Completeness

...
Rumi Verse: The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself, everything that you want you already are.
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Phenotype...

Ink Roached Infestation Didst Derive Within Mice Elf

...Ink roached infestation didst derive within mice elf

Minor emendations to following
just posted verse
oversight to correct dissatisfaction,
yours truly I do curse
ah... methinks if hands of ti...

Ink Roached Infestation Didst Derive Within Mice Elf

...Ink roached infestation didst derive within mice elf

Thus writer of these words
forever mus lee experiencing 
craving to eat cheese,
a milk product 
eternally preserved within 
annals, chroni...

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