Category: Verse
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My Soul Fillers
I engage With the outdoors, SOLO. I seek and find The hiding adventure wherever I may be. I walk down a new path (or an old one with fresh eyes), While lazing and drinking in the unfamiliar (and drinking in an unfamiliar beer as well, on occassion), Almost always SOLO. I seek and find: A […]
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Poetic Exercise – Compare Similar Subjects with Soft and Hard Sounds
The soft melancholy With breath Came a flutter, Butter Flying in the center, Without reason or cause. Unsettled, Yes using the tools The fools Teach to find center ,Without knowledge or pause. Fearful, Shedding old for new Wet, Blue, I dive into the center Waves washing away all flaws. Nothing Can wash all away Finé. […]
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A life worth living, moment by moment
There’s a moment shared between you and another No words spoken But the knowing of each other and the perfection of that moment There’s a moment when the daylight has just Tread Softly Into Your Awareness And you get one more day to share with the world The moment you smell the sweetness of grass […]
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I Can’t Stand Anna Karenina (the book)
Black Out Poems are not unfortunately about what happened after I drank too much last night. It’s a poem where you take a page of a book and find words to make a poem by blacking out the rest. I used a book that many consider to be the gold standard of literature, but I can’t […]
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Untitled…
The getting is gotten, While your soul goes rotten, Working the words, To travel the worlds, Flowing from your finger tips Flowing from the tip of your tongue. Tips tip the jar And money flows near and far, Not fearing what the grasshopper fears But spending for years In a day. Traveling away From your […]
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You and Me
You and Me Are Not You and Me Because the You I see Is not the You You see. Even more, The Me I see Is not the You You see, Even though It may appear To be. And when we get to Three Which is You, You, and Me The things we see Differently […]
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An Ode to My Favorite Font
AKA: A short trip into my brain. Lucinda Sans Typewriter It’s a font I like. In Fact It’s Pretty Much My Favorite Font, Much Like A LIGER Is Pretty Much Napoleon Dynamite’s Favorite Animal, Bred, Rumour Has It, For its Skillz in Magic. The Liger, not Lucinda Sans Serif. I like the word Skillz. Even […]
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I Lost You in the Deep Blue Somewhere
I always wonder Do you wonder Like I wonder About you. When I see the ivory In your smile just so, Just how Your lips would taste. As we bow together Whispering the secret song Of just met and well met How would I know of the citrus in your hair? I always wonder Do […]
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Questions We Should Ask #1
“Were You Present?” Most true answers Answer the wrong question. Sadly “Yes to There” “No to Present” If we truly understood How we fit The world around us With those in that very same Space We inhabit We would want to be present. “Were you there?” A question of time A question of place. “Were […]
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Magnums and Opuses
Magnums and Opuses .I. When can we plant, Father? She says and I do not know But I say, Tomorrow my sweet Tomorrow. For it is always and never Tomorrow. Is it today that we plant, Father? Tomorrow my sweet Tomorrow, For today the rain comes And the morrow will be better. And on the […]