Perpetuum
...Before time found its pulse
and the void birthed its silence,
there was the Word,
a murmur of infinity,
a flicker igniting chaos.
It needed no beginning,
nor an end—
it was pure motion,...
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Categories:
reassembles, poems,
Form: Free verse
The Last Lap
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The Last Lap
Ignorance and fire
now common partners
lying on a restive bed
The night now owns the day
as the day now basks
in opaque blackness
The burnt-out embers
scattered to ...
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Categories:
reassembles, desire, hope,
Form: Narrative
Paradise may be that moment when we turn back to the past
...Paradise may be that moment when we turn back to the past,
And discover that its beauty existed despite our presence,
A time when our departure reveals the splendor, hidden beneath the whirls of sh...
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Categories:
reassembles, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
The Battle
...Pikes held high,
Flags fill the sky,
Drummer boys sound the beat,
Musket men are on their feet.
White smoke swirls, ram down the ball really hard,
Pour in the gunpowder to make the charge.
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Categories:
reassembles, anxiety, death, depression, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Respected Hearts Inspecting Minds
...When I feel differences
between respected wisdom
and inspected knowledge
becoming invisible,
When I discover transparent distinctions
between rightbrain easy Awe
and leftbrain articulating Wo...
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Categories:
reassembles, destiny, education, faith, health,
Form: Political Verse
Beyond the Grave of Perception
...He looks at the mirror and frowns at the image
‘Is it the glass or my face that lies shattered?’
Fault lines burrowed into borrowed time
Tim wonders about censorship and cracks
He s...
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Categories:
reassembles, conflict, courage,
Form: Free verse
Damage
...I tell you that love happened first,
In order
In that order— which is to be opened,
Flayed the heart that at first flinched
When the soul would blench at the sound of your voice
That once was ...
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Categories:
reassembles, abuse, love, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
This Is Your Brain On Boredom
...While my eyelids are open,
My eyes are closed.
While my ears work,
I do not hear.
My mind,
Finding no reason to stay,
Drifts out of my head
And wanders around.
At first it floats around the r...
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Categories:
reassembles, analogy, emotions, feelings, how
Form: Free verse
The Lady
...There is a lady I know,
She is never below,
Though she walks low,
And moves slow.
This lady
She has a heart,
That heals those hurt,
Reassembles every soul that is cut,
And restore them to...
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Categories:
reassembles, love, passion,
Form: Romanticism