Life School Poems

The celestial bodies ....
They witnessed my feet on the sand 
becoming mutual with the hard rocks .

My red blood and sweat 
They saw my inability...

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Life's no banked river...
Life's roving waves frothing shores...
Life's oceanic......

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Finding your lost mittens in the school’s lost and found.
Playing with some puppies as they run and jump around.
Happiness on your first day at school...

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what's that?
who's this?
what am i doing?
why am i here?

i have so many questions
about, well, everything.
i'm expected to know so much
but i feel like i don't...

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I remembered what you did to me in the past
You caused me to shatter like glass
I lost myself trying to stay freinds with you
I played...

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SUMMER RAIN

God cried today
His tears fertilizing 
The womb of 
Mother Earth:

The wet smell
Of nature’s essence
Saturated the air
As moist breeze blew
Breath of new life
Into dried hopes
Wilted...

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go to bed  •think bemusingly of you
loop (cond) { tomorrow }
I rise in the morning,
jog an 8K  •thinking of you, wash up
drink some...

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      My school has no walls
         or ‘administrators’
    ...

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We all have inner and outer lives.
They’re messy, hopelessly intertwined, and more
than mere mannequins to hang our word-art upon.

I’m supported, in my unwritten life, by...

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In you, I lost. I lost a lot. Somehow, in you, I lost you. I lost my virtue, my dignity, my sense of self. I...

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The day’s hours were worn down and a sudden sunset, that
resembled a master’s painted glimpse of Valhalla, was upon
us, its majesty of deepest blue, blood...

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IN LIFE’S GREAT EQUATION

Circling myself in a triangle spirit,
Today I squared all my efforts,
And my results doubled:
I added good and got better,
Subtracted evil, and got...

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as the dance ends ~ the wallflower comes to life...

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I was going to become a teacher
I thought it was my calling

I was young and thought it best
to go to university straight out of high...

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I’ve moved out (of school),
I’m moving in (to school).
My joke is that I’m having a ‘moving experience.’

Graduating college (3 days ago) was a dream come...

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