Long Overlaps Poems

Devotion Poem, The Black Dahlias


This morning, for a time, you seemed
To have disappeared.  I called out to you
From my bed, but the words
Must have been consumed into mute syllables, 
For any answering voice, if...

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Trapped in captivity
Stirred up in vanity
Your memory overlaps my own

Hello, hello, hello
Is it the wrong time to speak to me?
Hello, hello, hello
How are you doing lately?
I will listen up!

Hello, hello, hello
Is it the wrong time...

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Life is entanglement plus time,
A Gordian knot of opportunities,
Each ravel a riddle to solve
or a battle to be won.

We grab and pull at the gnarls,
Greedy fingers seeking solutions alone.
Though the more we worry them,
the tighter...

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One Word #13
Word: Attic
Attic, Noun, A space or room just below the roof of a building

When you feel the need to do something,
Wanting, willing, to do almost anything.
Trying to erase the thick blank that is...

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Well today I find myself stretching again

Passed tests trials and wicked heart men

Playing games on courts

Who me no door

Shuts close with no reason

Freedom comes in season

Time gains its now

Hope despair somehow

Catches up with lost time

Almost...

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Pending next droplet, drip mirror spherical 
         Rolls speedily down leaf spine, drops sluggish
         Earth splatter tsunami sends ants...

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The rubber band land,  short and long,
   thick and thin elastic stretch pull along;
it's pulled, it's pushed, poked and often touched,
it gives, it takes, it's prod and plucked,
   flicked back...

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there are times 
when my heart
remains silent
when its pulse is
steady and slow
there are times
when i am
right with the world
fitting in like a piece
to an irregular puzzle
there are times 
when the sounds
of the life that surrounds...

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My fellow pilgrims on life’s path,
I greet you here today
To share a tale of gratitude
For help along our way.

Our best route is the straightest path,
And narrow from the gate.
But most of us went crashing through
As...

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if a river of blood united us as one,
what would we do with what we used to be
we spend so much energy trying to be our individual changes that we forget what was there
that introduction...

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Now that you have passed,
the days are mostly a crescent memory,
eclipsed by the night illuminating
what daylight darkens. 

And me...
sitting upon the edge of my bed,

I look down, 
down in consternation...
down to where the stars fall,...

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I try to change
For the better
For my own faith
but i find
That I have trouble

To change my ways
That hurt myself
To have faith in those
That seem impossible

Not to hold a grudge
For taking from me
Those I love
To that...

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Wings shadowing below...

                Ever following yet never quite meeting,

           ...

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Turning to face reality
a mirror tells no lie,
with no way to hide it
how can one even try

The image of myself 
not one of perfection, 
and still I can see you
in that gray reflection 

Every inch...

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The ocean. The ocean is beautiful; a perfect harmony for anybody to desire. Glistening with sand, as the water calmly overlaps one another, causing waves. Soothing yet flowing, soft, as they gently touch the sand...

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Your smile like razors
your kiss like knives
im drowning in your love
as i struggle to stay alive
i promised not to slice
and i still continue to do my part
but the cutts arnt on my arm
the cutts are...

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the skin says it all
it's disorder
white sheet - dirty spot
irritation of inconvenient tissues
discomfort from peeling off rough things
the sweet scent that drives away
or icy sound of unwanted voices
what overlaps everything
this extra layer
another mountain to climb
I...

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