My Mind Place
...My Mind Place
stand with me here
i wish to take you to my
mind place
it is my secret friend
since 1953
together
we scanned the harvest skies
heard distant harmonica melodies
far aw...
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Categories:
exhalations, dream,
Form: Free verse
An Ice Fishing House, Abandoned, in Need of Repair
...An Ice Fishing House, Abandoned, in Need of Repair
That same shed waits
by the trees.
Waits on its skids
for the lake to freeze,
and the for the creaking
joints of bickering
stoop-shoulder...
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Categories:
exhalations, environment, father, fishing, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Opus 2025 Night Silences
...
two singular heartbeats
emergent with fluttering exhalations
a tiny speck of time and temperature
rushing nowhere beside falcons
pausing breakneck together
i hear her wet whispers kissing
c...
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Categories:
exhalations, memory,
Form: Free verse
I CAN'T BREATHE -repost 2014
...I am being suffocated by causes.
Will we march Quixote-like
enraged by the spinning of the windmills?
We protest the wars carrying placards
while expecting others to carry arms,
praise God and w...
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Categories:
exhalations, america,
Form: Prose Poetry
Omnipresent lurch toward authoritarianism
...The views and opinions herewith extemporized to spur discourse with me, or to be mindful when exercising the right to vote in the country of your existence, which expressed intimation predicated upon...
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Categories:
exhalations, abortion, abuse, america, anger,
Form: Free verse
More harm than good
...What is your biggest fear? My biggest fear is that when I'm away, I won't be able to save her and when I'm there, she'll need saving. Simultaneously, I'm killing her, leaving her open to an attack th...
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Categories:
exhalations, anxiety, conflict, dark, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
The Sacredness of Love
...I run to you so that you can hold me
to find a warm vibrant rapture
in your arms
My promise of love, I give to you
so you may caress my soul
with feathered trembles
I'll give you my eye...
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Categories:
exhalations, love,
Form: Free verse
The Other Day
...I went down by the river
just the other day
I sat on my favorite granite
as I gently caressed a kyanite
I listened to white rushers
splash against steel grey rocks
I graciously engulfed t...
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Categories:
exhalations, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, earth,
Form: Imagism
A Miracle Happened In the Rain Today
...a miracle happened in the rain today
i learned how to swim
truth became a beauty queen
love became the confirmation
a miracle happened in the rain today
i learned how to properly walk
'free' ...
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Categories:
exhalations, appreciation, for her, growing
Form: Free verse
Taking Place Right Now Inside You
...Halt
Pause to
Consider
Every Process
Taking Place Right Now
In Your Body and Brain
You’ll likely be Overwhelmed
Inhalations, Exhalations
Absorptions, Secretions, Digestions
Grief, Ecstasy, S...
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Categories:
exhalations, body, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Waiting To Perish
...In waiting we shall perish.
As we are dazzled but embarrassed.
There is no shortage of eternity.
All that is left is the company-
Of all these other people with bulging hearts.
But...
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Categories:
exhalations, mental illness,
Form: Rhyme
Urgent Musings
...Amusing sacred A-musings
like Atheistic A-gnostics
ReDiscover resilience
where Trauma is some part of Life
Win/lose LeftHemisphere dissociating
lack of RightSung resonance
ReUncover indig...
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Categories:
exhalations, health, light, muse, music,
Form: Political Verse
Soul Starving In the Midst of Plenty
...Soul Starving in the Midst of Plenty
By Sy Roth
Just a slit where air,
Some air can find a way to creep in
Replenish the foul exhalations of the horde
Crammed to the rafters
Airless beings
...
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Categories:
exhalations, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse
Teachable Momentum
...Today
we left off yesterday
to pick up
where speaking non-violent principles
too often neglect to listen
to liberally artistic,
green and active
yet non-reactive
compassionate healers
may n...
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Categories:
exhalations, caregiving, green, health, light,
Form: Political Verse
Healthy Natures
...A distinction between Earth's regenerative nature
and healthy human nature
implicitly divides
what has been a leftbrain predominant verbal history
of multigenerational learning
and abstractive
...
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Categories:
exhalations, deep, earth, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
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