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Springtime

Springtime

I only wish the spring had sprung an open vista to explore
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A Dark Place

A Dark Place

There exists place in all of us So close we touch it now A darkened grove of saplings We’ve watched our lives grow tall
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Grasping

Grasping

You are no more special than any other snowflake that falls upon my hand.
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Windows

Windows

Time spent walking the streets at night, looking in windows. Hoping for those in the light to see me. To look my way and wonder at my life…
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Persimmon

Persimmon

There are many fruits As sweet as the persimmon But none as orange
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Lunacy

Lunacy

Repeating the same thing and expecting different results. Sounds like insanity.
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Let it go; an exploration

Let it go; an exploration

Letting go is the hard. In death. In separation. In disconnection.
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Let it go

Let it go

Letting go is the hardest thing you will ever have to do. In death. In separation. In disconnection from things you know.
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The Loss of Loss

The Loss of Loss

So many things that were filled with intent only to be lost. A face. Some thoughts. The way you smile at nothing and everything. Plans laid…
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Uncanny Loner

Uncanny Loner

Excel at all that brings before you and your kind be free of willingness to fly alone through berths so varied see for who but you and I…
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Full

Full

Street car is full. “Sawry, sawry.” Push bags tripping young and old alike. Old faces lined with hurt. Dark skinned beauty stands tall…
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Contained

Contained

The speed of light is infinite Within it all is bound All butterflies and crocodiles Exist as if they’re sound
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Tumbleweed

Tumbleweed

Moons ago we roamed the open tundra. From place to place until we found a home. Sweet soil to dig in to, and thunder And lightning to to…
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A clockwork brown

A clockwork brown

Orange carpets. Fake wood panel vinyl walls. Corked kitchen. Red bakelite salad bowls. Stone checkerboard and shape edged quartz knights…
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Lemon cheesecake

Lemon cheesecake

Thoughts circle around interleaved crosshatch mosaics. Bean sprouts murder pavement babies piss black urine through haughty straw bail…
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Ten years older

Ten years older

Ten years I sailed on open seas No land in sight for days, for weeks No harbour or small berth be mine A crew complaining, “Feed us wine!”
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