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Mind's Eye

...("Mind's Eye", 2017, original encaustic) Mind’s Eye Within the crystal palace of mind’s eye what is small is large and large is small; no distance separates objects, nor time moment......Read the rest...

Categories: insubstantial, perspective, spiritual,
Form: Narrative

Beautiful is the poet's carriage, my love

...Beautiful is the poet's carriage, my love, That can be heard passing among us. But, Lord, what a long journey it has made, How pale and weary the poet seems to be! And what happens, poet, in heav......Read the rest...

Categories: insubstantial, love,
Form: Free verse

Well Rested He Moaned Much

...A slow swim through clouds of consciousness. My wife said I had lost a day, but I was timeless, though as my mind moved, so did the world, I travelled by ever clearing thoughts, over distant ski......Read the rest...

Categories: insubstantial, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Snowflakes

...Slow flakes, Shaken from a starry sky, Floating through the air Like tiny fragile ghosts, Settling on black branches Glistening with spectral frost. The great silence of falling snow. Each......Read the rest...

Categories: insubstantial, life, snow,
Form: Free verse

Storm Warning

...I love spending nights on the lake. Once the oven-like sun disappears, things get suddenly quiet, except for the occasional hoot of an owl, crickets, frogs and the soft lapping of the lake on the......Read the rest...

Categories: insubstantial, adventure, fun, life, storm,
Form: Free verse

Broken Beauty

... Broken Beauty By Mark D. Stucky Glamour is a hollow, shiny shell, a rapid, pretty paint job on an insubstantial surface, that alluringly promises much but never sati......Read the rest...

Categories: insubstantial, beauty, body, clothes, fashion,
Form: Free verse

Work Vs Pleasure

...Why is pleasure measured in moments, while work is measured in weeks or years? Pleasures are like insubstantial fictions, sweet treats gone in the tasting or perhaps flowers, that once cut, with......Read the rest...

Categories: insubstantial, career, passion, work,
Form: Free verse

God Particles

...without the insignificant ~ there'd never be a significance without the insubstantial ~ there'd never be anything of substance without you me and our puny atoms ~ this cosmos would not b......Read the rest...

Categories: insubstantial, allusion, life, universe,
Form: Monoku

Temporary Lodgings

...Incineration; it is his living wish. The urn will be a plain oblong box, He will be boxed. The wooden package will be sent as only a temporary accommodation, not a place of rest or......Read the rest...

Categories: insubstantial, poetry,
Form: Free verse

In Some Other Place My Mind Skids On Wet Thoughts

...Will we still have a skin to jump out of when we are flesh no more? Will we skinny-dip inside a thimble? Will Summer rain still softly kiss? Will there be Harley’s, plasma shotguns? Will mos......Read the rest...

Categories: insubstantial, poetry,
Form: Free verse

The Returning

... "The Returning" Inside us all a strange forest where light and dark are fed to us by curious creatures, their unexpected gods in thoughts and deeds joy and fe......Read the rest...

Categories: insubstantial, muse, mystery, philosophy,
Form: Narrative

Time Is Fluid

...A life is a story told in the arc of time. Time is fluid, white as light, And glittering with flecks of brilliance, Liquid moments leaking away over the years. Sometimes I feel as if I am inside ......Read the rest...

Categories: insubstantial, introspection, life, philosophy, time,
Form: Free verse

Matthew Scott Harris Whar Art Thou *****

...Matthew Scott Harris, whar art thou *****? The following admission honest to dogness haint no bunk nobody, but yours truly bore deeply and countersunk his spontaneity satisfactorily lightweig......Read the rest...

Categories: insubstantial, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Empty Chair

...Why does it A N N O Y me so when i take the T I M E to read a poet’s words C H E W them up with delight only to find that they rudely (my opinion) T U R N E D off their comments my brai......Read the rest...

Categories: insubstantial, appreciation, silence, writing,
Form: Free verse

Confection

...CONFECTION Laraine Kentridge Lasdon Everything I am seems to belong to someone else Everything I am seems to be someone else Imagine a memory mirror framed with pearlescent medallions pai......Read the rest...

Categories: insubstantial, imagery, imagination, mirror,
Form: Free verse

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