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Best Poems Written by Lazarus Rising

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Dog Snow

You remember in photographs, usually
And my keys, wallet, phone are not in safe places 
My mismatched socks festoon the living room 
And snuggle in next to your dishes filled with yesterday’s bones
And sometimes drifts of dog snow tumble through our kitchen 
Catching around the legs of chairs 
You the early riser, sometimes me
Either way with protestations and coffees 
In the imperfect light

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Different Skies

To thee I pledge a life
Of voyages and unexpected finds
freedoms, winding garden paths and laughter 
Walls of musty, well-considered books
the occasional bottle of mustier wine, carbonara 
And an even mustier dog snoring with content, in front of our fire
Of peering through leaves at different skies 
Or the same one, and seeing the meaning in either 
walking the same road, or diverging
Always by your side

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Morning Prayers

The imperfections of my constellations
Shining bright, blind me 
At the bottom of thick glass bottles
And in shining foil packets  
I shelter from the glare of light 
With my blue knees and red, cold, cramped feet 
In dreams of the crackling sky
and visions of the singing air 
I pretend, for a while, that I am whole, 
That I will release my false prophets 
The gods to whom I prostrate, bent constant over 
Fixed on the desperate hope of change
Yet doing nothing, lying before an idol’s feet 
My whispered prayers go unanswered 
Clasped hands wring silently 
Each morning, my plea begins anew

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The Uninterrupted Night

The vagaries of our existence 
Shine brightly, the stars seen without light
The clouds, always overshadowed, flash
The war of sound lost, the whispers, once soft 
Fall on ears no longer deaf to silence 
This is a different world, I tell myself
But it has lain in wait 
singing at being heard as I with it
dancing to the hushed tunes of its melodies 
The timeless hours not timeless at all 
But minutes stretched too tight with chords, groaning
A language lost, rhythms obscured, desperate, deep and brimming 
with the dissatisfied longing 
Of the uninterrupted night