Best Switched Poems

Fight or flight mode always on
Can't explain to anyone
what is going on in life
Internal/External strife

"Take a breath; you'll be alright"
Set a match to dynamite
World without is going mad
World within is getting sad

Cortisol spikes all the time
Rarely am I doing fine
"Wake up! Someone's calling you!"
"Look around!...

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Emotion comes in so many forms, 
Out of nowhere, it simply arrives,
A certain feeling comes over you,
Can’t believe, twas buried inside. 

Now this is fantastic, boy it’s great,
Lost and carefree, again aged three,
Uplifted and ebullient all at once,
Impervious to decadence I’m free.

Nonchalant as a meandering...

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A
light thrown
onto life-
the visual 
word
is 
risen-
a constant,
in a changing
world

See more @ John 20:21 & 22...

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I celebrate no light switched off,
I celebrate no ragged cough,
But sing, I do, the men of mind,
And I myself, who am not blind.
I sing the pride of happy wealth---
That light-foot walk of free men's health
When, with chains of tyrants cast away,
Promethean minds invent and play.
They...

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A man who is hurt beyond words
Begins to think of crossing swords
The air rending with harsh war cries:
"Shame on who for cowardice flies!"

A man who is hurt beyond words
Terrible things does to binding cords:
No more rushed "Hellos" and "His"
He leaves minds to find out the...

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Not a switch 
To turn off 
Then back on 
At beck and call 

Push one way 
Then the other 
Words meaningless 
Without voice 
Obey when spoken to 
clap 
did it work

A relationship 
More like a slave 
Do I exist 
Maybe invisible 
Need glasses 

Awakening light...

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"Miss Stokes, what do you think Pip was thinking?"
Uh-oh. I possibly should not have pretended to be my twin today.
I am taking her classes, pretending I am sick, rather than she.
This is 7th grade English, and I have not even heard the word
Great Expectations because...

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Wall
hangings-
neon lit
decorator's
piece.


Ekphrasis after Dan Flavin...

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Salt lick temptation
lures that dangle,
camouflaged darkness
masks and blinds

Easily captured
when most attracted,
flypaper memories
—trap and bind

(The New Room: November, 2021)...

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Pandora's Box

Is truly alive and well

Thriving to this very day 

Streaming and beaming away

Into the vast majorities of family homes

Not actually opened 

But rather willingly freely 

Switched on under the misguided illusion

We believe and buy into it to be 1 part entertainment

And 2 part information...

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Living without Jesus is like walking around in a dark room you can’t see where you are going but once you find Jesus it’s like all of a sudden the light has been switched on and you can see all the obstacles in your way...

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