Short Simplification Poems

Student A brings in simplification.
Student B goes to Perth for a much needed vacation.
Student C votes for classroom unification.
Teacher has lost it, and wants participation.
I give up! Yells the X’s of multiplication....

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making literal the metaphor
as simplification of innocence 
is quite apt because thoughts rest
releasing presence from life pulse dual
whereupon silence energises stillness 
and then in the unbroken continuum 
of object bereft animated attention 

we awaken...

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Mysteries of love 

endure through time immortal 

“ner to be revealed 

Sought for by Minstrels and Bards 

Kept selfishly from mans grasp 



It’s very nature 

defies simplification 

Fantasy or real 

Only through experience 

can one say “I understand”...

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SIMPLIFICATION
 misted
  moments
thoughts
 crowd together
 tantalises
to
 contemplate
their fragility
where
thinking deep
&at
a
 distance
in
the
rain
&
tumble
of everyday
 bower of feeings

  conception
in
 the plethora
of detail
 materiality
 &erupt
in
 a passion
for
the
intense
&
 tactile
 process
of shaping
light...

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buried in an
empty apartment
cluttered with 
dusty memories
whispering loss/regret

fearing & secretly 
wishing for
apocalyptic 
obliteration:
absolute
simplification

immobilized
by a frigid
gray/wet 
scowling
landscape

going nowhere
groping for hope
hoping for 
   a gentle
     slope

as I 
spiral
ever faster
into
an indifferent

     black 
     
      hole...

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