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Voices That Follow

...Keeping
memories close
pushing
people away
I live in   
the safety
of what’s held
at bay

Trading
the future
retreading
the past
Living
nostalgic
for what
cannot last

Each
invitat...

Categories: retreading, time,
Form: Rhyme

Bodhichitta Joy

...Bodhichitta:

Is a supremely multicultural
golden elixir
overcoming sovereignty of death,
fear of mortality,
anger against loss
and suffering
and dispassionate inhumanity.

Is an inexhausti...

Categories: retreading, culture, health, heart, integrity,
Form: Political Verse

Lightspeed of Communion

...I intended to say
when I was young
each day felt too slowly incremental
toward my generation's time in Earth's wiser sun,

But my ancient extended hand
keeps writing "exponential"
while increm...

Categories: retreading, age, health, integrity, memory,
Form: Political Verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Someone- -

...'Someone!' said I, 'I’m in need of a ONE;
I crave the female human, a happy almost anyone;
Back into my memories of dating;
I am shorn of images of marriage my mating;
With such a pas...

Categories: retreading, absence, adventure, analogy, desire,
Form: Rhyme

Golden Secrets In the Flower

..."...The Secret of the Golden Flower is not only a Taoist text of Chinese yoga but also an alchemical tract. (...) it was the text of The Golden Flower that first put me in the direction of the right ...

Categories: retreading, angst, introspection, world, flower,
Form: Didactic

Saying the Wrong Words

...Quite often I got unsympathetic looks
and angry remarks for saying the wrong words,
but meaning no harm I started a bloody battle...
be careful when talking with someone who seems too rational!


I c...

Categories: retreading, forgiveness, friendship, introspection, people,
Form: Rhyme

Literary-Induced Trip

...Literary bridge to nowhere
Without compass, pen as guide
Through rambling discourse
O'er every jagged meter
Free, rhythymless strides
Unconsciously retreading again
Stumbling every step
Into v...

Categories: retreading,
Form: Free verse

Without Resource To Discourse

...Literary bridge to nowhere
Without compass, pen as guide
O'er rambling discourse, each jagged meter
Freely moving with rythymless strides
Subconsciously retreading again
Until stumbling into idy...

Categories: retreading, on writing and words
Form: Free verse

Repetition

...You repeat and post the same letter,
Again and again and again,
As if reinforcement renders things better,
And the litany melts away pain.

You reiterate, as though amnesia,
Distorts all the te...

Categories: retreading, allegory, history, parody, people,
Form: Verse