Strength Does Not Always RoarFragility is quite a strength
just as the crucial bumblebees’ breath
Perhaps not only titularly
gentleness is stronger than severity . . .
Channeling Emily Dickinson : To be a feather in a holocaust
– hope, sewn in the soul, sings the song needed most
A minor thought on regeneration : To regrow the leg the mantis lost
– a marvel on...
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Categories:
philosophy, art, beauty, hope, mountains,
Form: Alliteration
Categories:
philosophy, truth,
Form: Monoku
Categories:
philosophy, spiritual,
Form: Monoku
LemmingI’m as pragmatic as a lemming
The most important day I missed
Stayed in my hole cause it was raining
Didn’t want my destiny to meet
And probably she thought the same
Had mixed me for another one
Who craved to get his lemming fame
Like other lemmings also ran
Towards the beauties of blue sea
Each tried to keep up with a...
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Categories:
philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
When I Was AshWhen I was ash...
I knew wind more intimately than breath.
I knew what it meant...
To scatter without sorrow.
That is all I remember....
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Categories:
emotions, fire, goodbye, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
The Fire That Does Not BurnThere is a fire in me
Not meant to destroy.
It lights ruins
So I can read the old names.
It warms no one...
But, it remembers....
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Categories:
fire, magic, mystery, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
The Thread Between WorldsIt is thinner than hope
Stronger than belief.
Woven from silence
Tied to a sigh.
The thread between worlds
Is not seen... it is lived.
A tug in the chest when nothing’s wrong
Tells all...
In the tear that falls... before goodbye....
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Categories:
emotions, philosophy, space, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Somewhere My Other WaitsSomewhere, in a hush not bound by walls
My other waits...
Not the twin of flesh
But the echo I left behind...
When I chose to live, this time forward.
And if I call...
A silence answers.
For then, when I better listen...
It breathes my name
From both ends of the sky....
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Categories:
life, mystery, philosophy, space,
Form: Free verse
The Wanderer Stands Beneath the SkyThe sky does not explain itself
It simply opens.
The wanderer... quiet with ash and memory
Does not ask it to.
For there is a wind that knows his name
It never speaks it aloud.
As together, they walk...
Not forward, but further....
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Categories:
life, philosophy, travel, wind,
Form: Free verse
Atmospheric Elocutions For Surviving ArmageddonAtmospheric Elocutions For Surviving Armageddon
Elocution lessons for the morality police
Persecution of those not callously elite
Convolution of the elongation of the technique
Revolution from the poor, downtrodden and bleak
Ageless reckonings that are born from conscious defiance
The rage less beckoning of a protest in non-violence
The senseless converting to a reflective space of...
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Categories:
philosophy, life,
Form: Rhyme
Deeply Insane
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
~ Nikola Tesla
nights are dark and long
and those who come only
to wheedle
me into eating, or drinking, or brushing my hair
coddle and coo
yet bear knife and needle
to prepare my mind...
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Categories:
mental illness, perspective, philosophy,
Form: Other
Wu WeiThe archer shooting his arrow without hesitating,
the musician effortlessly improvising,
the singers seamlessly blending,
the speaker clearly enunciating.
It's not about being lazy or passive
or being forceful or combative.
Nothing unnecessary or artificial,
it's about being spontaneous and natural,
coming from an inner elemental source...
like water finding its course....
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Categories:
perspective, philosophy, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
If God was a womanIf God were a Woman
But, He ain’t
The Bible tells me so
He wouldn’t abandon His children
Like a deadbeat Dad
Create stars to foster kin
Use child labor to make hijabs
Covering the universe in shame
He just inseminates galaxies
Leaving diapers for others
Sending humanity to boarding school
Teaching survival of the fittest
Like his beloved Son crucified
Who failed His test yet won
While mother...
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Categories:
philosophy, allah, christian, death, god,
Form: Free verse
We Were Never 'I'Within this sanctum
of breath and bone—
ten trillion anchorites
mimic their devotions.
Bacteria threading
blood’s vermilion rivers
braiding holy water
into the cathedral
of now.
Their alchemy transmutes
starlight
into the wine of existence—
decanted
from Orion’s mythical vine.
Viruses—
those threshold wraiths
between being
and unbeing—
inscribe new verses
in the living gospel
of our chromosomes.
Fungi a cappella
in mycelial tongues
through marrow’s moaning chambers
decomposing resurrection
from each small death
we die.
We are not hosts—
but cantatas
still composing...
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Categories:
creation, identity, metaphor, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Where Did This Life More To GoSee where the birds went
And where the wind sent
The reason the twigs bent
Hear what the words meant.
I see where the birds go
I don't see where the wind blow
I see the twigs vow down low
Amazing and fearsome I know.
The picture is destructively feel
To the mind is excruciating so real
To the heart near or far but nil
The...
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Categories:
life, perspective, philosophy, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
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