Midway Psalm
...The Ferris wheel, a spoked and sputtering crown,
Pinned back the velvet dark. We paid our fee
In crumpled bills, bought passage to the town
Where gravity forgot to work its shift for me.
Neon stu...
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Categories:
impossibly, meaningful, metaphor, peace, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
The Village On the Water VII
...Raised Stone-Tablet eternally abiding under
Towering Heavens endless span; and in its
Solititude...charts the migrations of our
Highest Lord's cestial rockets.
Because of Stone-Table...
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Categories:
impossibly, appreciation, imagery, places,
Form: Free verse
Passwords
...Nothing
seems as the
password for ~~
although
impossibly
Everything
seems to
work too~~...
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Categories:
impossibly, words,
Form: Free verse
Nothing seems to be the password
...Nothing
seems as the
password for ~~
although
impossibly
Everything
seems to
work too~~...
...
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Categories:
impossibly, appreciation, words,
Form: Free verse
A Lonesome Catharsis
...He never questioned the weight behind his eyes until the day he finally woke up. For as long as he could remember, the mud had been a part of him. A thick, caked crust beneath his skin that h...
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Categories:
impossibly, change, emotions, identity, loneliness,
Form: Prose Poetry
The softness we never got
...I'm sorry
I know you may have never been told that
But you deserve it
And so if nobody is gonna tell you that
I will
You deserve it
In a world that has told us to be strong
And has held us...
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Categories:
impossibly, color, discrimination, freedom, hope,
Form: Free verse
Bright Angel Trail
...My knee was a cracked hinge,
each step a bargain struck with pain.
The canyon walls pressed in,
heat still rising from the stone
long after sun left it behind.
Halfway to the distant rim,
I f...
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Categories:
impossibly, adventure, inspirational, memory,
Form: Free verse
Purpose or Obliteration
...I dreamed I was inside a bulb—
a cathedral of filament and glass—
not dead
not born…..
but shumming**.
Glass walls curved like time
sealed but translucent
my fingers curled around ...
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Categories:
impossibly, identity, imagination, introspection, philosophy,
Form: Narrative
It Is To Be
...the choir chimed in
a chorus of rebuke
or stones we'd hurl
abusing the adulteress's skin
shoot your pocket rocks
passing judgment comes down
like diluvial rains splashing
gory-red upon yo...
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Categories:
impossibly, faith, fate, hope, jesus,
Form: List
The Glitch in the Grid
...The telescreens hummed their endless drone,
A symphony of truth alone,
Dictated, printed, beamed so wide,
Where independent thought had died.
Newspeak choked the rebel tongue,
And every sun...
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Categories:
impossibly, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
more gift cards
...More gift cards
What is it with people and the money they dream of I’m not a money person, cash in hand is ok
Perhaps a small account is enough for everyday use to repair a puncture.
A family f...
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Categories:
impossibly, absence, age, anxiety,
Form: ABC
Where Time Stands Still
...
In that timeless realm, O Cosmic Sister, our love at the helm, where time stands still-
our love becomes the canvas,
the enzymes, the film.
Each fleeting heartbeat -a brushstroke, ballast,
a...
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Categories:
impossibly, angel, art,
Form: Rhyme
Breathe in, breathe out, start typing
...Back straight, shoulders down. Straighten the computer. Stop staring at the purple walls.
Light the candle once, twice, three times -- why won’t it light? --
before the flame finally catches,
the ...
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Categories:
impossibly, anxiety, change, death, fear,
Form: Free verse
MIND THE MIND
...If we're constantly learning
The knowledge we're yearning
It just goes to show
How much we really know
We all have our own field
Experts in what we yield
Knowledge of everything
is impos...
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Categories:
impossibly, humanity, imagination, memory, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Fleeting Moments
...
Clenching tightly, so moments don't fade away,
As bygone days once promised to stay.
Rejoicing in every instant to its utmost,
The spectacle may ultimately e...
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Categories:
impossibly, age, allusion, america, animal,
Form: Rhyme
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