Long Impassively Poems

I was walking while reading
because this had been recommended,...

Well,...
actually more like required reading
while walking,
rather than too much blindly reading
while passively impassively sitting through
Earth-reflective stalking exercises

For improving body health
and soul wealth,

Not that these are really two...

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Tossing and turning after a heavy economic loss
The shock shattered my peace of nights
Hugging my pillow tight with unshed tears
The sorrowful thoughts trudged haltingly
To my grandma's antique sewing machine
Lying impassively in the cluttered store
Guilt shook...

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Struggling
With carrying branches to dry for kindling,
Cursing
the seemingly extra long winter and those
who keep bringing it;
a shadow drifts over me like a primordial raven,
and a rush of unseen limbs streak past me.
Both alight before the barbed...

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Today I learned that all is naught, and naught is all..
I have been seeking, unconsciously, unaware, 
Only to learn that all that I ever wanted to be was a seeker,
Out ward lies but a pale...

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Nothing about her is wrong, really such a marvelous creation
Not one error was made on her, she's the perfect hallucination
Everytime I turn my head, I see her right before my eyes
She smiles and holds out...

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9/8/12

There is a wall that no one can break through
It has stood silently for a long time, begrudgingly still
Many have tried to climb over the wall, but somehow they always slip
Many have tried for years...

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Since my stroke, I deal with a shrunken world.
Surprisingly, a shrunken desire to visit,
also has emerged; I'd buy a coffin
to hold in readiness, but I'll be cremated
and a cardboard box is all I need, I'm...

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The still, early morning crawl
The minutes tick, the hours tock

Hands of Time, marching on
Past the fences, past the farms

Put the mists before my eyes
Put the cobwebs in my mind

Climb the hill at glacial speed
Move with...

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I look at every thing impassively;
Watching for any change;
Waiting to see what can not be seen;
I am able to see what others can not;
I look into the depths of your being;
I look at who you...

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I remain silent though my heart is weeping.
I exist - impassively and automatically.
I’m a machine – indifferent, hardly functioning.
Yet I breathe. It can’t be true. It can’t be possible.

I always shuddered to think of your...

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(“Corpus Callosum", 2018, original encaustic)

Right Brain, Left Brain

Two halves of a whole
Complimentary opposites
Passive/active, imaginal/verbal
Figurative/literal, depressive/manic
Outside and within time
A master and his emissary
Inside us all.

Yet each of us have our own balance
Our own comfort zones
And range...

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The suspect, looking like a clown,
Sat quietly in court.
His face was frozen in a frown;
He offered no retort.

Some victims’ relatives were there;
In anguish, they all glared.
The shooter, acting unaware,
Impassively just stared.

I wonder what’s inside his...

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It hung in the air, the word;
the question finally asked.

Knew full well that you had heard,
your face impassively masked,
save for that slight hint of grin.

A stretch of silent years borne;
poor excuses wearing thin,
as are the...

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Oh glorious shimmer
from my vagrant star,
bestow upon me
the fires of design
to lift me from
despair

in my stark corner,
shrouded by muted
filaments once set
to blaze the void
with resonance
profound.

What beckons me
does so impassively
in balanced measure
throbbing beyond
wobble or inherit
gravity,

tuning my...

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