In the time loop, I'll fall in love with you again and again
...In the time loop, I'll fall in love with you again and again,
Not in a café or park, but where time itself breaks,
A moment that resets every nineteen minutes,
As if the universe stumbles over the...
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Categories:
resets, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
What Gives with Forgiveness
...
Forgiveness is a dilemma -
Offering goodness freely where none was given,
can suppress rightful anger, grief,
accountability, cause and guilt.
There are two sides to the rub for
getting mutu...
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Categories:
resets, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
MONOLOGUE OF AN EXILE
...Just one dusk at the terminus,
the hourglass will shatter.
No more pain,
no more suffering,
just the silence
of a penance without sentence.
My feelings,
a procession of punishments.
My ...
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Categories:
resets, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Sunrise
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sunrise resets time
as regular as clockwork
few markers standing
...
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Categories:
resets, sun, time,
Form: Haiku
THE DUSTY BOX OF MEMORIES
...THE DUSTY BOX OF MEMORIES
I was not searching, but just stumbled on it
Across a dusty box of memories in my brain
Not the usual recollection of a pleasant time
But some events that never seemed...
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Categories:
resets, memory,
Form: Rhyme
The Out-Shuffling of Stars and Witches and Angels
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My hand splits the deck, divides the weight
of galaxies and shadows, halves of fate.
At a drive-in, the Cutlass grows hot; glass bursts
like safety-grade stars scattered between laps,
a...
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Categories:
resets, allusion, america, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Every Line A Sentence
...The afternoon's a fire, but my head still frozen to the pillow.
The fan blows soft and I lay softer.
Without a signifier I'll get up for the 4th hour in a row,
I'll stay ignorant to all the day ca...
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Categories:
resets, abortion, addiction, august, confidence,
Form: Rhyme
With my eyes closed
...sadness leaves body
calm peace overtakes my fears
mind resets itself...
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Categories:
resets, body,
Form: Senryu
Daybreak Resets My World
...the day is about to rise
and again i could not sleep --
i breathe in the freshness of the morn
and in the stillness of this air
emerges from yonder the horizon
a hush aglow that calls to me
...
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Categories:
resets, bird, encouraging, morning, nature,
Form: Free verse
Descartes Reborn
...If consciousness dies
is that all there is
or does some higher state
reimagine what was
When consciousness dies
will birth reoccur
no longer indentured
to time and its spurs
If consciousn...
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Categories:
resets, imagination, time,
Form: Rhyme
Cherub's Promise
...Beyond despair
new light is found
where wasted moments
live again
Befriending capsules
lost to time
the air forgiving
free of sin
Beyond all hope
there lies a wish
where cherubs promise
sa...
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Categories:
resets, angel,
Form: Rhyme
Majestic Rays
...Shall be well praised
Grace of thy sky
Where beauty does rise
This miracle unfolds
Each time it is told
Built through trust
God loves us
Well kept
As time resets
Through the ridge of God's s...
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Categories:
resets, blessing, celebration, faith, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Paths of Life
...PATHS OF LIFE
The labyrinthine paths by which I came
Oft chosen not by judgement but by chance
Crossed lotus fields of indolent disclaim
Where callow sought distraction stemmed advance
Took m...
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Categories:
resets, life,
Form: Rhyme
The Otherwise
...they disturb, deep behind my sleeping eyes
......
retune my tautened strings, replay my frets
vignette movies spin reels of dreams discovering
fresh slants on shadowy delight
the foreb...
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Categories:
resets, community, psychological, sleep, voice,
Form: Verse
Jasmines of Love
...Jeopardy of love's jasmines
Attitude threatens the petals
Stable and sweet one moment
Miserable the next
Inner insecurities
Nitpicking on trivialities
Ectacy of passion yet resets
Smoothly ...
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Categories:
resets, art,
Form: Acrostic
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