Love begins as a whisper, soft and light,
A single spark in the endless night.
But flames don't linger—they rise and soar,
A force unfurling forevermore.
It doubles, it triples, it knows no end,
Beyond all measure it dares transcend.
No wall too high, no chain too tight,
Love breaks the dark, it births the light.
Without its touch, we bend, we break,
A brittle shell that time might take.
But love—love holds, love lifts, love stays,
It builds the soul, it fuels our days.
Not just a feeling, not just a vow,
It multiplies—it bends the now.
Exponential, infinite, wide,
The pulse of the stars, the ocean’s tide.
Let love grow past all confines still,
For love is boundless, love is will.
i speak
my words fall to the wayside
off a cliff into the great abyss
i hear myself
but no one else takes notice
as if i'm walking through
a fog that's dense
and everyone is blind
i speak yet
no one hears a word i say
i'm wading trough
a pool of driftwood
i may as well join in
and float towards
the great unknown
i'm alone while
everyone around me
goes about their business
oblivious to me
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
the meaning gets lost in translation
somewhere between cold and distant
somewhere between not knowing and not caring
between the not wanting to reach out to ask
and the not wanting to reach in to give
lost somewhere between the island of you
and the island of me
somewhere on that empty barge adrift and alone
AP: Honorable Mention 2022
an exponential
which is with much potential
is essential
Habitual Spiritual Exponential Haiku
lived in an old shack
God please bring my mother back
her love i do lack
in garden would toil
was ruined and I did spoil
should see my poor soil
must get off kiester
so can enjoy Easter
do from year to year
God made me mature
that always can be a cure
always knew for sure
God priest did appoint
so people he could anoint
can be confidant
Jim Horn
'y', represents Love (L) and is the vertical axis.
'x', represents Effort (E), or the work put in and is the horizontal axis.
Rate Love from 1-10 and express Effort in time, whether it be months or years, but also 1-10.
The resultant curve that rises 'P' is exponential and represents pain.
Pain will be felt wherever it stops, because one or both of the factors that prevent it from stopping, Love and Effort, will also have stopped.
Thus it can be expressed:
L x E = P.
Please add this to the school curriculum.
Credential Essential and Exponential
What we can know about each credential,
All always have potential to be essential;
Read some more;
We have hope for,
And is indicated by extreme exponential.
Jim Horn
Potential Exponential Essential Poems
Indicated was syndicated so eradicated.
Annoyed, deployed, destroyed
An apostle who was Pentecostal
Being hostile and should be docile.
Had been hiking and lightening
started striking Which was beyond
my liking.
We saw a Marine wanting to leave
the scene so off side of mountain
did careene landing on the village
green ending up with a ruptured
spleen.
Even though incapable his sins
were available that had become
inescapable.
There was much curiosity about a
monstrosity who had a Doctorate
in Atrocity that moved on after
increasing its velocity.
A good looking baker was a breath
taker who wore falsies and was a
faker.
A golf holw had been situated on
side of cliff and evaporated after
with sunlight it had been saturated.
Exponential for Potential
When you increase the exponential,
Of possibilities expands the potential;
To compromise,
Never satisfies,
And to arrive at this will be essential.
Jim Horn
Exponential Love
Just like a river with endless flow,
my love for you forever glow,
you have the sparkle in your eye,
that gives me the answer as to why,
Like a pendulum swing to and fro,
my heart is pounding blow by blow,
for as the rhythm stays in motion,
empowers the spirit of devotion
The growth of love is exponential,
cannot explain this rare potential,
You’ve engraved within my soul,
Footprints of love that’s cast in stone.
Fusion of thoughts are moulded in one
Trusting I will never walk alone
Spring is in its prime again
each leaf beautiful
much is edible
birds and peepers are musical at dawn.
The days walk slowly
toward Utah and Italy.
My left nut hurts.
Joy overwrites death.
Well, well. You're well
alone in your brain
only a negligible fraction
escaping as words and actions.
Every leaf that's coming out
is out. Including the self
to the west and south
a golem, mandragon, an elf.
Aaron was stacking
the last of last year's
firewood. He found
a spotted salamander--
Ambystoma maculatum--
Big mouth--hidden
under the final log
with a worm and centipede for a meal.
I exclaimed Rare species!
but it's common, fossorial
lives in moist woods
under cemetery stones and memorials.
Eats earthworms,
snails, slugs
insect larvae
and adult beetles.
Will the Twenty First Century be the end for *****Sapiens?
Can human minds and psyches stand up to the speed of change being metered out?
Today, we make more decisions in a day than were made one hundred years ago in a week. Where does it go from here?
How does a mind that was designed to procreate and survive in the wilderness deal with the ever increasing complexity of the Twenty First Century?
Specialization enabled the dilution of the pressure amongst the inhabitants, but this is being saturated. Machines and computers were able to diffuse the onslaught for a time, but this too is running its course. In fact, these adaptations are now adding to the dilemma.
Psychological coping mechanisms being stretched to the breaking point.
Can humans meld with their technology enabling a quantum leap in coping capabilities, or will this simply drive people insane?
Will we simply off load everything to technology leaving us all free to focus on creativity ignoring the rest?
For us to survive and thrive I think plan B is the best.
A BILLION WAYS TO SAY THREE LITTLE WORDS
There must be so many ways to say the same exact thing
Like, take this offering I was commanded to deliver to you from the Spring
And in the summer I shall say “take these my sweet”
As daisies rise from the ground to bless the finesse of your feet
There must be thousands of adjectives and numerous nouns
More words than there are tidy and tiny towns
Now let me say this in a different way to you
you will never find words birthed anew
You will seek yet never find a new way of what to say
When it’s so loudly defined by a willingness to pray
Are you bold enough to promise vows that you will one day keep,
Or will they, such as a corpse, be buried six feet deep?
How shall I react when I HEAR three words so small yet so sacrosanct to me
Will each syllable BE SPOKEN clearly so that I might understand and let it be?
Well where is she already with her supposed proposal billions before have done and said?
Instead of my beloved the minister meandered closer and whispered the three wrong words, “your fiancé’s dead”
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