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Disorder

...You may—I might—theywill—some ‘won’t’—just say:
“Living’s a walnut begging to be cracked!”
And if-or when-but why-sosoon-the impact
of such a soundstatement will hardly weigh?

on the forget- fr...

Annotating

...The deep, heartfelt ache,
heaviness piled onto shoulders;
the feeling of unattainable past experiences,
the moments of mere temporary bliss,
the unavoidable changes.

No permanency tacked down,...

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...Inauguration Day 2025 - Monday, January 20, 2025, 12:00?PM

Aforementioned event interestingly enough
coincides with Martin Luther King Junior day.

The late reverend American minister and activ...

My Title: See Below

...Perhaps my title should have been determined first --
but today I differed and decided to think of it last,
tacked on later, a mere hint to what appears below:
a clumsy broken flow of simple comme...

Tapestry: My Least Favorite Word in Poetry

...
Dear poet, please come get your tapestry,
Tacked across the window—it hangs askew.
My cat’s convinced it’s hers to claw, you see.

The reds all clash—they’re far from harmony,
But hey, it fill...

Growing up

...Growing up leaving home ready to start a life of my own getting a new chapter a door opened up a new horizon for me getting a place of my own walls floors a roof over my head but sleeping in this hou...

Yours truly embarks on wild goose chase after elusive pot of gold

...Yours truly embarks on wild goose chase after elusive pot of gold

alternately titled: incorrigible lottery dreamer
big plans to relocate self and spouse
to some tropical island paradise
by the ...

Liminal Space-Surreality

...Classical infusion Beethoven’s “ode to joy”
Playing on blaring audiophile speakers annoy 
Purposely looped to destroy vagrants with electronic music
Blends of subversive elements and anxious acous...

Returning To the Snowman

...We built a snowman the other day when winter had the gall
to visit North Carolina…in the middle of the Fall

We went back the next day to visit our snowman…
to the exact post we set him on
but s...

Not This Rose

...I saw a dazzling rose,
Whose red petals cast blinding hues upon me.
She shot her cupid arrows from the Kabaka’s backyard,
And punctured the cocoon of my innocence.  

My heart burnt for a feel o...

Elusive Pursuit Endeavoring To Craft a Great Poem

...Elusive pursuit endeavoring to craft a great poem

I (analogous to a rolling stone)
confess, no deliberate intent, yet often wonder
what spurs me to nudge, goad, coax, et cetera
semblance of rea...

Yours Truly Embarks On Wild Goose Chase After Elusive Pot of Gold

...Yours truly embarks on wild goose chase after elusive pot of gold

two alternate titles: 
1. Gander seeking goose that laid the golden egg
2. Incorrigible lottery dreamer
linkedin with previous ...

A Forty-Niner Named Wiggins

...The word of discovery of gold in '49 in Californy raced across the nation!
Why, it was said you could fill a bushel basket full with little botheration!
This appealed to a young feller in Boston to...

Silent Survivor

...The depth of life
Mystery having a history
Untold story
The life of one person
Hardships
Beaten words that were never torn
Angry thorns
Unexpecting eruptions within
Approaching storms
Names ...

Looking At Our Picture

...Looking at our picture
I can see it now
in your eyes,

the torment of what you've done
the horror of the pain you caused
but in the picture I'm smiling

I do not know it yet
my heart is stil...

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