Short Unlinked Poems

A relationship ersatz

   ~ never connects the dots...

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Unlinked to the tree
he doesn’t know his family–
stands aloof, questions

ancestors don’t change
the mood of the weather:
the leaf needs his name...

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too much from me
too little from you
something that's not
fades to blue

two hearts unlinked
one heart goes
nothing given
nothing shown

hurt will heal
once revealed
over spans of time
pain gets sealed...

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As the violins soar, her poor heart sinks
  Music can't reach her, now she's unlinked
Yesterday life was vibrant and bright
  Today's plunged in darkness, without any light

She sits in the audience, glum as can be
  A melody throbs in her heart -- Woe is me
How fickle is love, how impermanent passion
  Turns day into night, the sun's face ashen...

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Tedious of ephemeral dreams
I prefer to be in a coma
If my thoughts are where you reside
I shall close my eyes for eternity
My empyreal cerebrations
ostend the painstaking reality
that a body of water
has unlinked us both
Thus far, I have survived
without your company,
which is what keeps me sane,
and secure; That if I were
to cede it, I shall go sightless
And life shall lose it's felicity...

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What is the age
of reality itself
Older than
a metaphor
Unreferenced
on a shelf

What is the distance
unmeasured from within 
Spoken of
but never seen
A poets
dying whim

What is time uncounted
as numbers lose their clout
The hourglass
returned to sand
An abacus
in doubt

What is love ungifted
but feelings’ last excuse
To roam unlinked 
between the chains
And blame it
—on the Muse

(Dreamsleep: December, 2023)

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