Relearning the Shape of Yourself
I no longer fit the outline
of who I used to be.
The edges have shifted,
some softened, some sharpened,
some lost altogether,
as if time has carved me
into something unrecognizable
but still mine.
I reach for old habits,
old names,
old certainties,
but they do not sit right in my hands.
The echoes of who I was
do not match the weight
of who I am becoming.
So
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Categories:
relearning, poems,
Form: Free verse
BROKENNESS
Life without money
Very boring and funny
But educative
No company to commune with
Solitude your best friend
Constantly reminiscing and relearning.
A broke man, a lonely man
Bitter many days, always angry and worried
Many label him lazy
Forgetting hard times humble people
Many call's him crazy
When caught laughing and happy all alone.
When a man is down
If there's no leaning
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Categories:
relearning, africa, children, christian, community,
Form: Narrative
Relearning Happiness
Happiness is like a soothing
taste of white wine
where you fall asleep
to the tune of the wind and waves
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Categories:
relearning, beach, celebration, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Teacher
Coronavirus;
Making us relearn basics
What a great teacher!
17.4.2020
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Categories:
relearning, teacher,
Form: Haiku
Relearning Manifest Destiny
What did you learn to play
in school today?
Hedging future winning bets
against lost devolving yesterday
I learned religious history
of manifest colonizing destiny,
Responsibility to over-rule healthy integrity,
Authority to addictively enslave
our lesser prey,
womanfest cooperative destiny,
without duplicity.
How is such sad destiny most powerfully manifest?
Destiny unfolds boldly
in each Here with Now committed BodyMind moment,
Yang with Yin
Out with In
Integrity's love-power sacrament of
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Categories:
relearning, change, conflict, destiny, earth,
Form: Political Verse