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It Was the Always and Will Be

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It was the rat and the snake that ate each other.
It was the love in them.
It was the buttercup and the lupine that devoured the bees.
It was the insectivore legs that tilled the crumbling field...

Spiritual Suicide

...Black man, do you remember who you are?
Before temples were carved from stone,
before books whispered borrowed truths,
you were already divine.
You walked with spirit, not religion.
You read the...

Blackland Prairie

...BLACKLAND PRAIRIE

From Red River down to San Antone,  
The Blackland Prairie’s all but gone—  
Scoured clean by progress, tilled and torn,  
By “civilized” greed, excess born,  
A plundered la...

Morning Birth

...Often I gaze
In shadows I sought refuge
Healing waters from the valley of visions
Measured my portion
In weaves I sowed my seed
Through many days of distortion
We Tilled the sky
It bore us lif...

Born Of Fire and Rain

...He was reborn & rebuilt
brick by brick from 
casted stones
meant to destroy
A heavenly construction approved
by the most high
employed angels from every
corner & angle
high to low
The convoy...

Give Me the Rhythm

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give me the rhythm, a steady heartbeat
birth pangs are closer, the pain on repeat 
music comes forth from creatures small and great
fat raindrops drumming,a new age awaits

wind whistles and...

The Bridge We Must Become

...Begin not with the battle cry,
But with a question—soft, not sly:
“What pain do you still carry near?”
Then wait in grace, then choose to hear.

The soil still holds our common thread,
Though f...

My Village - Monsoon Flood

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The skies now dark with swollen grief,
Rain lashes roofs beyond belief.
The monsoon comes not soft, but roaring seas,
It spares no home and trees, nor man, nor child.

Before my eyes - truth t...

Apotheosis

...Its torment is meant to disturb
the whole of the peace
you embody
The aim is to fragment & scatter
but you see the path of pieces 
as if they're breadcrumbs 
or brain matter
Time & again they ...

between cheramoya and jackfruit

...To the treasury note i lost with
I was without exotic notes
Taught in hardened testaments for quote
And speak of troubles i would have
Save the bested efforts tilled by young
Haddingstone and yo...

The Call From Father

...He looked out of his window, chuckling at the thought of tomorrow while pondering the past. 
A smile crossed his face, but soon he felt teary-eyed; it was a slow laugh followed by a cry that was fas...

Misgivings

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Remember us?
We were not invited to your plenty.
Remember us?
Our Bounty was far less than empty.
Remember us?
We tilled, we toiled, we too wiped our brows.
Remember us?
We sang, we joyed, w...

February 27th, 2018 literary tinkering rejiggered October 11th, 2024

...February 27th, 2018 literary tinkering rejiggered October 11th, 2024

I believed fortune cookie maxim 
cryptic message couched
Apple Macbook Pro update process
alternately titled “markedly 
a L...

MY Capt'n

...TIS thine bottled tat's tasked whence be thine edge
Be naught in wallows dew supine vogue cast
Youth triumphed hour as a young promised fledge
Barkeeper, be thoust days numbered--till asked
All s...

bird of paradise

...wingless passion earth bound life roots tilled ground ~ blossoms flowers newfound love...

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