Reworking Poems

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On many endeavors which I’ve undertaken,
a significant amount of my time was spent.
Explaining things to avoid being mistaken,
later to hear “But Tom, I thought you meant”. 

Time spen...

Auto writing Ghazal

...The calendar date, red-inked into alpine
white vellum: a blood-letting, a quilled line.

Old ducks [politically incorrect] featherless,
waddling like myself, fall neatly into line.

"It is time...

Hourglass of Life

...My eyes nervously cast a side glance
At the big clock on the wall above the table,
Marking the time in my mind,
Anxiously dreading sleepy time for all:
The darkness,
The quietness,
The alon...

A Life Lesson

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A Life Lesson
Miracle Man
December 13th 2023

Is Faster Better,
If time usually saved
is spent reworking?
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Reworking the Threads

...Old cotton knee-Lenths
smell; an old book of poetry smell,
Unseen socks
between the matrass and the ground floor
of nowhere,
where discarded apparel through the ages,
molders unread.

Daily w...

Put Me In Coach

...I've practiced this moment 10,000 times 
It won't go away instead, it magnifies in my mind

Late nights and early mornings... I know them
Working,  honing, tweaking, and reworking... I embrace th...

Quantum Theology

... Quantum Theology

By Mark D. Stucky

Spirit filled the formless void
before matter and energy were born,
before infinitesimal became infinite,
when, from a singularity...

Mystic Physics

...Mystic Physics

By Mark D. Stucky
When God said, “Let there be,”
	ALL erupted from singularity.

The event horizon couldn’t bind Him.
Space and time required Him.

Th...

Unbridled Musing

...A few tears have smudged the script.
To the chiseled thoughts that ran encrypt.

The origin of the legend is unknown.
Rise up, silent relics from your own

To a magical decor, the s...

Loving Jose

...Yes, Jose,
this is another love letter
from anthroprivileged me
to LeftBrain dominant you
for multicultural us.

I'm still here
sinking into my deep blue camp chair
with feet resting on a wea...

Ode To Art

...Is there a last word
of Beauty? A Definitive?

Perhaps a perfect chord,
replacing all, both past,
present and future – ceasing need
for the reworking of tune-able vibration –  

our constant ...

Ardingly Elegy

...ARDINGLY ELEGY

The clock tower tolls the passing of the day
The bleating flock wends home neath darkening sky
The Judges homeward plod their weary way
And leave the world in peace at Ardingly
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Fire Cypher 2 For My Haters

...This is a lethal ink injection.
I know I’m blessed to have rejection 
Haters in my life 
only lead to introspection 
Understand 
I’m still the man
Who are you to question 
I agree to disagree
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Three Colored Pigs

...Once upon a ZeroTime
we suffered great terror and loss.

People,
animals,
and plants
refused to speak kindly with each other
because of a Big Bad Wolf
named Ms. Climatic Change 
by her delig...

Overthink Words That Are Said

...Do you ever doubt what other folks say, 
Do you mistrust their intent?
Do you walk around reworking their words, 
Living a mental torment?

Overthinking short bursts of simple remarks, 
Overthi...

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