Short Possibles Poems

'Tis said
for to create
One needs the shade
   of an oasis,
   of quiet solitude,
For to soften 
   direct sunlight's glare,
Teasing one
   into the shadows,
that ambiguity
   of possibles....

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sherlock holmes thinking
was not sheer luck on his part
it was a program

written to deduce
to rule out all possibles
then what's left is truth

what if nothings left
an algorithm won't help
enter the author's

imagination
and holmes ignorance is named 
moriarity


stan sand...

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I loved you and you never knew
Of my torment, my temptation and fear
What was illusion? What was true?
Oh, the tangled storm of my feelings for you!
Yet, my heart did not belong in your sphere

I grew weak from all the hope I bled
I trod the path of possibles to infinity
But my joy curdled only to pain instead
Until, to seek sweet relief of disbelief, I fled
I had to see, it would never be, for my own serenity.

4/6/18...

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If you don't mind I'd like to come and watch you when you play

And think of all the possibles that we could have someday 

I wouldn't make it obvious, I'd sit way in the back

And though I'd want to scream for you instead I'd simply clap

A tear may fall but that's because you sing so beautifully 

You touch my heart in ways that can't be seen, invisibly 

And though I know we might not ever get to be a team

I'll still come to all your shows and I'll still keep the dream...

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One orchid blossom opens;
The rest stay tightly furled.
Yet isn’t that the way that life
Unfolds within the world?

The possibles may tease us
So we watch and wait and hope
As we try to gain some purchase
Up our lifespan’s slip’ry slope.

The orchid by the window, 
Water, air and sunshine-fed,
Still refuses to release its buds
To let the petals spread.

Some seeming opportunities,
Though close enough to snatch,
May exist to merely disappoint,
Like eggs that never hatch....

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