Best Enormity Poems

The farm
     and the porch light hums 
the sound of another 
orange dawn.

Burnt up – crisp
     ...

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A few poems written by Chan Hurst, (Just That Archaic Poet)

I hope that we can find some comfort in them at this sad time.


"A Rational...

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In the land of finite, measurable calculus of existence,
You are a silhouette of mystique, esoteric obscurity,
A symbol ambiguous, living among realm of precision, 
Unreachable to...

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I gather in the scarred 
and broken forms,
the lipped imperfections
that score the wind
to give voice to an evening. 
I see through the lesions
that open to...

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 Was privileged to have sedentary on the seashore in seraphic poetic submersion;
 the ringing sounds from the distant horizon made me entirely lost in...

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To an unmet friend:


You see the mortal world
and for you man is machine,
little more than a device
for the vagaries of evolution.
Faith is illusion, hope lacks
weight--...

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Today I will not be a slave to yesterday
Hours will be distilled into precious moments 
I will know the enormity of what is small
Now is...

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Hand Puppets


Hard, calloused and dirty, it pleaded with me.
It had no eyes, no face, no soul.  Or so I thought,
or didn’t.  Yellowed fingernails,...

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INVENTORY

Are you

growing old with grace?
this would seem to be ideal
among the ancient –
living style with wide appeal,
mental powers all in place

Well

take inventory.
how about deformity,
forgetfulness,
pain, its...

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i step outside of myself,
into a world, a world where everything around me is nothing,
and the only true thing that still stands left is my...

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But we of the Three Tribes live undiscovered 
   In the reverberating stillness of the 
 Three Gorges...
And are therefore unknown to the...

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TEEN PASSION 

As we walk along the path of a nearby valley, 
Teenagers in love, where the laden fruit trees shake out 
Their shadows onto...

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I’ve wondered if, when it’s raining,
If the Lord is weeping?
I’ve wondered if the thunder…
Is God’s voice – in all its enormity.

I’ve wondered if, when my...

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A clear spring night. I walk outside glancing up into the sky. The night sky is miraculous, appearing like magic at each sunset, promising to...

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Orphaned footsteps round the old place.
Pitch black soil, packed deep with bartered
coin and Indian heads – wood and otherwise,

coat her worn leather shoes, Hutterite chic....

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