Introspection Sapphic Stanza Poems

Shifting sands beneath me leave soft impressions
Like the gentle etchings upon my pages
It is not my goal to create a pattern
Ever enduring



February 3, 2019...

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Often little thinking allows controlling
Whether reasons hampering question further
Never error over inquiring thoughts
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A moment of memory still lingers here,
Lost among all the things I long to forget
Refusing to crumble into future dust
Of wasted dreaming.

Closed all the doors...

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BRONZE STONE

Along the timeless praise of deep Egyptian sands
where old men knew, one favored by the gods
and when this stone arose the hymns chimed through...

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I Leaped
     By Dane Smith-Johnsen

Saw my life indisputably clinging to a past night. 
Saw my hopes fall downward, as my heart...

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Unfettered passions congeal with confusion
each night as in darkness, my mind's journey roams
depths of desire, deviant and untrusting
leaving me despair.

Twisting tourniquets ever-tightening grip
as urges of...

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Waking feels like dreaming without the colors;
rising, I will move through the air like water.
When each passing thought is a question, you move
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David was a young man, David had courage
But David’s courage worried him somewhat!
Citizenship policy needed a Don
Leading by example was attractive, but forlorn 
And Locke’s...

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