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Nihilism and Caffeine

...You plunge your fist into the creeping
milieu of the ice cube by your ‘20s daydream.

Does it not hurt? but it does, and you quickly
retreat, surrendering to primal, human instinct.

Your skin ...

Unexpected

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Written: May 14, 2023

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Your dewdrops are bedazzling on dunes,
Hides enticing sparks so haphazardly fumes.
Your eyes, akin to honey...

Wounded Sigh

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Written: March 28, 2024 For Edward Ibeh Contest
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It is a myth that time cures any wound,
It is merely what people say and sound.
When ...

Questions For God

...I wish I had a straight line to heaven,
I’d ask God a question or two.
With all of these different beliefs, 
I wonder just what we should do.

Is it ok to read stories to our children, 
like th...

Reveries

..."Reveries are gifts of moments, even melancholy ones, 
when our hearts were happy."             
                                                        ~  by poet


We planted a flow...

Valley of My Heart

...The sun shines bright on the valley of my heart.
Where once innocence thrived, now torn apart,
Betrayed by those I whim I could trust,
Left alone and lonesome, consumed by unjust.

B...

Petrified Tree

...Up near the peak of Rockies,
Me and my limbs live in frigid cold,
The mountain seems to be frozen in time,
Being a petrified tree, I am frozen in stone.

As I ascended to the heavens,
I had to ...

A Poet Aspiration

...I'll read you in stars, for my last supper.
I follow you in blooms and clouds, today
I Hear your breezeways, you're time wrapper
I'll read you in stars, for my last supper.
I taste yo...

Follow the Fire

...Kindled my soul at the time of my birth.
It feeds my craving for the boundless,
superior joys of desiring to be soulless.
Owing to the breadth-widening death. 

Like it drew the moth...

Tyrants

...An abnormal desire
to scathe and to kill.
If we all let them
they can and they will....

Forbearance Vast Spectrum

...How do I acquire a place where I can forgive?
How can I stop blaming myself for my mistakes? 
I can't recall the version of "Intrinsic", but it's conflictive,
None can quash them If yo...

More About Hate

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More About Hate
Miracle man
5/16/2022

Hate has never been a one way street,
targeted at a belief, or color bound.
It’s sometimes found to be discreet,
and allowed to fester it will ...

The War Saga

...Shedding blood is not a scathe,
Saving people is not a salvage,
Ruining kingdom is not an outrage,
War, as they say – is fine to indulge,
Putting lives to mortgage.

I have seen war – fear in h...

The Fish Worshipers

...Swashing waves and swimming fish who don’t cry    
The sun shining her rays on the ocean 
A massive fish stared to the ocean’s sky                                                                   ...

Call of the Ocean

...The ocean calls out to me tonight,
For it feels lonely.
And here I am feeling homesick again,
Nostalgia suffocates me as I taste the rain.

The blue in it is but my ink,
The depth in my eyes is...

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