The Wabi-Sabi of Tintern Abbey
...Things bloom more beautiful when breaking down.
The nave now ploughs through foams of flowering trees,
a frozen caravel. Kissed by the breeze,
the river surface suddenly seems to frown
exquisite...
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Categories:
atrophies, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
Deep Purple Breaths
...Yesterday I unscrewed the top of the
homemade huckleberry jam you gave
me before you left for Lisbon.
I took deep purple breaths to fill
my light pink lungs.
It was such a necessary experien...
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Categories:
atrophies, lost love, love, memory,
Form: Free verse
Youth
...I try to cling to old memories
But my brain thinks differently now
I try to visualize that world
But my eyes see differently now
I try to hold on to the curiosity
But my heart beats differently ...
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Categories:
atrophies, childhood, memory, senses, time,
Form: Free verse
Hindus Are Right, In This, Too
...I
Hindus and their admirers often speak of their Trinity: Brahma the Creator, Vishnu the Preserver/ Sustainer. And Siva the Creative-Destroyer (in the way death of a seed, or if old family members a...
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Categories:
atrophies, christian, culture, god, hindi,
Form: Didactic
Sokushinbutsu
...the sun is on its knees,
disease leaks out their eyes; alive,
it fans the drain’s release;
a holy light complies; it dries and-
burned and held and spined.
their molting hair entwined; divine a...
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Categories:
atrophies, analogy, autumn, birth, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Darkness Descends
...a sanguine sun sinks - as night's ebony curtain of darkness descends
shadows coalesce - shapeless silhouettes conjoin - color atrophies
(Ku duet)
01,01,2020...
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Categories:
atrophies, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Monoku
Seek Trial and Error
...Seek Trial and Error
Seek what is right in a world filled with myth
Entering now with my family and kith
Each day is a test to judge what is right
Knowing its change in the course of the night
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Categories:
atrophies, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
The Future of Europe
...Future
Europe
Have many old people
We need
Young people
To replace the aged
If we are to, continue
As nation states
Europe is big and
Underpopulated
We deny entry
To the millions k...
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Categories:
atrophies, abortion, africa, america, animal,
Form: Chastushka
The Future of Europe
...Future
Europe
Have many old people
We need
Young people
To replace the aged
If we are to, continue
As nation states
Europe is big and
Underpopulated
We deny entry
To the millions k...
...
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Categories:
atrophies, abortion, africa, america, animal,
Form: Chastushka
Poetrysoup Heroes
...POETRYSOUP HEROES
Heartstrings of poems, I post and post,
I wonder who will ever be engrossed.
I, like a seed blown to a fertile land,
hoping as days roll by, I will also g...
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Categories:
atrophies, friend, poetry, poets, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
Shown
...That I had sheltered time's renown,
within my courage, rapt to own.
Not going forth to speak disown
as if some error finds condone.
This action, atrophies exponent,
and God's resounding, fade...
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Categories:
atrophies, visionary, love,
Form: Rhyme