Popular PoetI'm a poet
And I don't know it
My rhyme destroys
My pen is Poised
To trickle out
Some tale about
A butterfly
Or sunset sky
As sweet as jam
With rhythm slam
Dunk in your tea
My soliloquy
I'm a poet
Happy to show it
So on your bike
As I drop the mic
You may have guessed
If you passed the test
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Categories:
philosophy, poetry, power,
Form: Rhyme
Purpose of Existence
The Purpose of My Existence
A billion stars, a single flame,
In countless seeds, I found my name.
From crores of sparks, one soul took flight—
A chance, a breath, a blink of light.
The sun rose not for kings alone,
Nor rain to kiss just golden stone.
The air is free, the sky is wide,
Yet humans build their walls inside.
They chase...
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Categories:
philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
The Paradiddle of Being - Book Two: The BecomingVI.
We are all metric modulations
of our former selves—changing time signatures
mid-measure, learning to count
in odd meters when life refuses
to conform to 4/4 expectations
finding beauty in 7/8 existence—
the off-kilter cadence
of becoming.
The teenager tattoos pain across her skin
in sixteenth-note flurries—
razor crescendos marking flesh
rimshots echoing in a locked room
her body a snare absorbing
what no one will hear.
But the counselor...
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Categories:
philosophy, extended metaphor, fate, identity,
Form: Lyric
TransienceEverything is temporary. Maybe it's not even real...
Life, this life...
I think you know, we have already been here.
Post-apocalyptic existence.
Utopian dreams.
Uncertainty at the surface,
the shift in between.
Contemplation and choice.
Birth.
Life.
Death.
They are all one and the same,
sharing the same knife,
to carve out the same name.
...
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Categories:
philosophy, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Teasing twang pleasing tang of Yin and YangTeasing twang
See-saw folklore
Darkness & light
Mellow bedfellows?
Less is more
Wheat & chaff
Wrong is right
Day & night
Elite meet riff raff
No fuss or faff
See the wood
From the tree
Pleasing tang
Of Yin & Yang
Iffy Sisyphean shuffles
Squiffy Faustian kerfuffles
In a jiffy
Feathers ruffles
Nirvanas & nadirs
Pleb & peers
Cheers & tears
Grin or chagrin
Through the years
Proustian pang
Me & you
Yin & Yang
...
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Categories:
philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Everything Has an End
Everything has an END
The time I spEND
And sentiments I intEND
With my family and friENDS
But not with Jesus
Everything has an END
The breath I expEND
Trying to drive a point to its END
Maybe just driven crazy as one may contEND
Jesus I need you now
“All things must come to an END”
Said Chaucer as the 1300’s would dispEND
Never say never:...
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Categories:
jesus, philosophy, religion,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Nominal UniverseBirth is a common denominator,
Where the journey begins anew,
In the cradle of dreams and laughter,
Life's canvas awaits you.
Age humbles the most valiant,
With each wrinkle, wisdom grows,
The fierce warrior of youth,
Now dances in softer prose.
Work is demanding of our essence,
A grind that shapes...
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Categories:
destiny, introspection, perspective, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
The Art of Doing Nothing
i will just ll.
like leaves lean low in wind,
not asking why the sky
keeps its blue to itself.
i will just ll.
let light leak through the blinds
like a quiet kind of grace
on a wall that forgot to hope.
i will just ll.
not rise, not fall —
but linger,
in the hush between hours.
i will just ll.
like the last word
on the...
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Categories:
philosophy, art, deep, imagery, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
CoinOn a moonless night riding back from my tired job
I opened my wallet on the bus
Giving the conductor a few bucks
The conductor gave me a note and a coin
I carefully placed the note in my wallet
As it was time for the coin to join the fate of the note
The coin slipped away through my careless...
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Categories:
philosophy, hope, humanity, introspection, journey,
Form: Free verse
ResidueThings are not making sense, and I am questioning if my reality is so because I thought it in to being.
Am I the only one hearing the truth?
Am I the only one believing?
I think I am in need of a witness.
Archons deceive souls using the illusion of separation. The mind is the sole...
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Categories:
dark, humor, mystery, philosophy,
Form: Prose Poetry
Life And Times
Said he, “Life is but a short journey, a dead end at best and over all too fast,
but along the way admire the view, enjoy the ride while it may last.
No ifs ands or buts, there are no shortcuts, we all fall by the same sword
and the race well run, from the starting gun, is...
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Categories:
philosophy, age, death, fate, life,
Form: Rhyme
Silent SoundsSilent Sounds
And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
From The Sounds of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel
We speak in sentences that
have no meaning
Empty words flow from the mouths of
fatuous politicians, but who listens.
Earbuds drown out the cacophony of crowded streets
as we hurry to...
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Categories:
philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Price of FreedomAn old man once said:
Freedom isn’t free
As a child, I grew up,
never understanding those words.
As an adult, I learned,
the tree of freedom is watered with blood.
I thought we had paid enough.
But as trees wither without water,
so does freedom without its tribute.
As such I hoped,
we could pay with sweat and duty.
But once again-we choose red......
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Categories:
freedom, philosophy, political, sad,
Form: Free verse
Eyes
Bright orbs that shimmer, secrets yet untold,
They pierce the dark and trace the fading light.
Through love and loss, their silent stories hold,
A world within each gaze—so soft, so bright.
They search the hearts once open, now concealed,
Reflecting dreams that linger, lost in fire.
Some truths they guard, while others are revealed,
Mirrors of passion, sorrow, and desire.
They cast...
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Categories:
philosophy, heart, inspirational love, passion,
Form: Sonnet
The Paradiddle of Being - Book One: The Struck WorldI.
In the beginning was the Single Stroke Roll—
left-right, left-right, the primordial heartbeat
of existence itself, each alternation a binary choice
between being and non-being, the eternal paradiddle
of consciousness striking against the drumhead of reality.
Listen: the Buzz Roll of morning traffic—
ten thousand souls creating multiple bounces
against the stretched skin of commuter silence.
Each ghost note a rhythmic prayer unheard
each...
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Categories:
philosophy, childhood, identity, introspection, loss,
Form: Spoken Word
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