Rootless Poems - Poems about Rootless

...I. I stumbled down a corridor of screams, Where shattered children claw at broken glass. My temples bleed black rivers, thick with dreams— Rootless thorns that pierce but never pass. II. I wa......

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..."Eons back, we feared the petal's grace, called beauty pride, and named it place" "Mistakes were made, but wisdom stayed" said Thallorin,"not every path must be replayed". Each bloom now unders......

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... they built a ballpark over my bones, laid asphalt like a priest's last lie— no headstone, no name, just beer guts and baseball caps spilling nacho cheese where I once bled. I was twenty-thr......

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...Lost in Shade I am a blur in the mosaic, painted, not placed a borrowed hue in a gallery of dream and machines. Voices whirl like prayer wheels spun too fast, each syllable a wind that forg......

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...A mountain tarn, a deep-water eye, high and blackly gleaming. A scramble down slippery scree to look within, then a tingling apprehension of being too close to an unbalanced footing, one th......

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... parched buds in shriveled sapling desolate bloom dreams in desiccated dunes as the aureate sun masks the mirage chased taking the sco......

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... Empty shells I find on the beach can be looked at in two ways. In one aspect, they are seeds of death - the only tangible remains of once-living creatures now planted randomly......

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... Stone cracks itself when the immovable is broken by pain. Stone trees grow in stone locked caves. All that is not stone wanders rootless, yet they abide in that same furnace of time th......

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...Sky looks beautiful with clouds azure skyscape impressive though, starlit sky illumines forests of night. Short or long, verdant shade soothes a tree, single or in clusters pleases. A spring o......

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...she is felt still a tongue tip recalls her grave it speaks tenderly i had her crowned yet such a royal regalia did not suit her innate modesty she was a tireless waitress who served up......

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...A tapestry lightly stitched, a Turin shroud of time. It is a vision of our birth and crucifixion. a Jesus still ascending while travelling our own via Dolorosa. I glimpse of a Christhood risin......

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... It don't hurt. —Johnny Thunders, lead guitarist of The Dolls, last words My ancestors are made of malt and barley, barely a drop of water left— Midas in jorts and Nikes, overp......

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... Written: June 30, 2024 For Unseeking Seeker Contest Quote by Aristotle "Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My ......

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... Written: April 1st For Legend Silent One contest Rumi Quote: Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. ......

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...Li Bai translations These are my modern English translations of Chinese poems by Li Bai, also known as Li Po. Zazen on Ching-t’ing Mountain by Li Bai translation/interpretation by Michael......

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