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our governor knows that there is no afterlife

...
he stands in his suit,
blue tie hanging like a noose,
smiling with dead teeth,
signing papers that send
another man, another woman,
into the dirt.

our governor knows
there is no afterlife—...

You Lit the Match

...Getting dumped
shouldn’t feel like shattering,
but it did.
It cracked something deep,
a place already bruised
by months of breaking silently.
And you knew.
God, you knew.

You knew about the...

Matsuo Basho English Translations: Spring 1

...Matsuo Basho Haiku: English Translations of haiku about seasons, spring, rain, moon, flowers, blossoms, wind, river, etc.

Blame the rainy season
for my absence,
old friend Moon.
—Matsuo Basho, ...

The Wound II

...The scab is gone
The scar not quite so vivid
No more clawing to relive the pain
No more needing to feel again
The wound is nearly healed

Through delicate care
And careful protection
And thro...

My Children This Book Pulls Back The Curtain of Our Limited Senses

...When you don't know what to do.
Open this and it will speak to you!
Don't listen to a Religious man.
Get a translation you can understand.
In Luke's book 24:45 you will find.
Jesus had to open t...

skating upon saturn’s rings

...
         skating upon saturn’s rings 

             endless ice cold arcs
     innards of past moons shattered
            blades reopen wounds
        in my wake scars and chaos
       proof...

Time to Believe

...
Time slips by as the wind whispers through the trees,
Waving hands fly like the movement of the breeze
And families pray for those they love, all because,
Time gave hope, time restored, welcome ...

Spooky the Night

...Spooky the night; 
Ghosts are even contrite
Continually drifting round the hound. 
Pumpkins have found 
A dark body to walk them around 
While monsters walk the streets. 
The pounding of the br...

Aquamarine

...Moments of sadness 
Where have you gone?
You never were mine
So self, carry on
Time is a healer 
Great wounds cauterize
But scars will reopen
When I think of those eyes...

Are We Safer Now

...Joy in mourning
opens this new eye day.

Am I OK?

Healthy?

Compromised
yet survive able
air inhaling
"Death, tonight,
or some tomorrow,
my life's inevitable
closed,
no longer curious,...

When Day Becomes Night

...When day becomes night
And night becomes day
The cycle continues 
With less on display 
For chapters reopen 
And life unrehearsed 
The card that you played
Was never dealt first

The life th...

Chaos or life

...1 November 2024  5:23 Pm

In the cold dark of night when hidden is the light
I sink into my mind and slowly loose my sight

My eyes reopen in a world out of time
The past the present the future...

Death Is

...Heavy are the layers of dust on a forgotten book

Death is the final chapter
the closing of the book of a life
Prolonged or sudden
accepted or denied
pleasant or painful
Death is

Loved ones...

I go Insane

...Somewhere between fallen flares
of an untouchable phoenix~
and the nostalgic red of crimson horizons,
I feel the amethyst embers of longing
illuminate rambling roses
that mourn within my hib...

In the twilight of my consciousness, where shadows weave secrets into the fabric of the wind

...In the twilight of my consciousness, where shadows weave secrets into the fabric of the wind,
I contemplate the whispers of time, its sweet deception that it heals all wounds.
For time heals not; i...

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