Nothingness
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It's hard to zero in on nothingness;
That word, spun by my thoughts, does not compute.
Was born to see and feel a 'somethingness';
My senses all are mired within that root-
And ...
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Categories:
somethingness, inspirational, space, universe, voyage,
Form: Dizain
I Feel Like a Rose
...I feel like a ROSE
As though I were an actual ROSE
Just as such I feel as though my
Petals are fluffed and moist with morning
Dew, a tranquil VOICE.
The eve of blossoming spawning in the
Pupil ...
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Categories:
somethingness, beauty, blue, care, day,
Form: Sonnet
72 and a Half
...I'm 72.5
How many more years on this earth?
5? Hopefully 8.
What then? Heaven? Hell? Purgatory?
Perhaps Purgatory to wash away my regrets.
Or relive them and correct them.
This leap to the af...
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Categories:
somethingness, age, angst, beauty, blessing,
Form: Free verse
72 and a Half Edited
...I'm 72.5
How many more years will I have in this life?
5? Hopefully 8.
What then?
Purgatory to wash away my rues?
Or maybe another dimension
Where past meets future
And the same life repeats...
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Categories:
somethingness, age, anxiety, beauty,
Form: ABC
Contemplating Nothingness
...To contemplate nothing with something, a Sisyphean task
The mind’s paths, like Escher’s roads, simply double back
To land again in somethingness, explanations lack
Yet our deeper selves know profo...
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Categories:
somethingness, love, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
There's Something About Nothing
...There's something to nothingness, that's true
No matter what you say or think or do
There's somethingness out there
It is just you're unaware
So, gaze out into space, enjoy the view...
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Categories:
somethingness, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Hard Rock
...The rock I stand on
is hard
I lean down and put my hand on
its hardness
Once there was
a nothingness
then the tiniest speck
of somethingness
burst into
the everythingness
until at last th...
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Categories:
somethingness, nature,
Form: Free verse
Beginners On Roads
...I remember gazing at, through some moving vehicle:
the foggy mountains mystical; the setting sun; the distant blue sky.
It (landscape) winked,
and I ...
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Categories:
somethingness, dream, heaven, imagery, nature,
Form: Free verse
Somethingness
...SOMETHINGNESS
Ugly, shapeless, formless:
Amoeba metamorphoses
into concrete images;
Dark, void, hollow-hearth:
Dim cave metamorphoses
into residence of light.
Dungeon beggar ...
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Categories:
somethingness, change
Form: Haiku
Unseen Presence
...When I look for something real I almost always find everything fake in what I see,
yet I feel something out there waiting to come within me.
When I do not seek what I really need or want I am not u...
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Categories:
somethingness, faith, life, religion,
Form: Acrostic
Presence
...considering the death of a friend
who has not died yet, who in fact
is in perfect health, or a parent, a
family member, all who walk &
talk beside you, giving one the
feeling of belonging or at lea...
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Categories:
somethingness, life,
Form: Free verse
Patriotism
...Dear America
I love you so madly
will try to explain why.
You taught me to preesh
mom's cheesecaky escapades
into visions forbidden
So it still goes for women.
Many sighs abound.. is anyone list...
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Categories:
somethingness, devotion,
Form: Grook
Categories:
somethingness, love,
Form: Monoku