Best Recalibrated Poems

don't know what happened 
when i was under that vent
for all those days
something
is strange.

i like mustard on my
salad.  i hate diet cokes.
i don't like...

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Getting to a state where thoughts are rested,
Attention poised in the void of stillness, 
Detached presence, no conniving twisted,
Aligned form and formless consciousnesses, 
Orientation agendalessness,
Vibrantly...

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After the funeral,
the town changed its street maps,
old houses were relocated. new shops opened
in long emptied malls.

They had never shared their likes or interests,
they had...

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I would imagine Adam Smith's invisible cooperative economic
self-and-Other-investment hand,
at least during Christian Sunday morning services,
looked and sounded and felt very much
like the One Invisibly-Organic-Holistic-Enlightened MindBody...

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God may tell you to move forward, have no fear He has your back 
Omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient He's always with you in fact 
So...

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2/28/21

Dang it
Still doing the same s***
On a planet that is overpopulated
Always getting faded
And intoxicated
Often facing Goliath, call me David
I won and was elated
I also loss...

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Used to be a steady sound of static
Endlessly emitting from my heart
Couldn't find the right station
Honestly didn't know where to start

Itching to open a line...

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If you'd seen this metamorphosis
Wide-eyed boy-
                   ...

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If you were to inquire of me
To impart my knowledge about flowers 
My answer would be this
I have seen with my own eyes the Tulips...

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Today is my birthday, December fifth
Eighty-one of them I’ve celebrated
And the well-wishes give me a lift
Today is my birthday, December fifth,
Just to be alive is...

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they disturb, deep behind my sleeping eyes
  ......
  retune my tautened strings, replay my frets
  vignette movies spin reels of dreams discovering
...

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emotions
thoughts and words
misguided
misaligned
misconstrued

soulful
chiropractic
adjustment

sudden
surge
of
recalibrated
bloodflow

all is well again



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Submitted December 26, 2017...

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She took me to the place where memories are all erased
A place where broken bits and pieces of promises where stored up
She took me to...

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Rapid currents; we know not how to swim
What is at stake, is life of fleeting form
We let go, celebrating outcome grim
Vibrant in currents delightfully warm

No...

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gush of emotion
pent up feelings
burst forth as release
recalibrated midway
by spherical vision
auto correcting
our direction
by grace

08-June-2023...

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