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Is Survival Enough?
He can’t remember Why The attractive teacher Blasted through The closet door With passionate rage Burning like sulfur From her sockets His breath Taken away From the sucker punch He finds comfort In the violent reaction He gets carried away By his daydreams But he cannot Run from his…
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Incessant Ramblings of an Optimist (Relentless Ramblings of a Romantic)
A hesitation Makes me question To see if my spelling is correct Glaring at words in a thesaurus The original Not poetic enough The process Altered The instinct versus the allegory The words Find their way From a notebook To a computer anyway I digress To find myself……
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I Will Not Fight In the Shadows
From a safe distance Anxiety sets in As my sweaty clenched fists Cross in front of me I seek refuge In my mental isolation chamber which Distances me from opportunity While comforting me from possibility Leaving me Straight jacketed by my own fear My attempt to lash out Is silenced…
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Genesis
Worry and fret Get stashed In the bedside table The darkness Of the late hour Makes your blurred vision Temporally meaningless Fighting with your eyelids Just stalls your reality From your date with fantasy With your external senses In dire need of rest Your mind relaxes and explores itself This…
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Life is Coming up Roses
If you don’t want you shit to stink I suggest eating roses Stem first If you can get handle the thorns The petals will soothe the pain away
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Fall of a Season
The Alluring acidic aroma Of decomposing leaves In a sidewalk gutter Hangs sweetly As a chilled nose Inhales Mother Nature’s perfume Ohh What a great excuse To practice our ratio of Powdered hot chocolate mix To heated milk The nectar Of frost bitten mornings The blend of sunny Cold…
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Dinnerware
I don’t get excited about mixing bowls. I have lived too much life to get moved by such things. It is refreshing to know that I will not be bummed about the inevitable crack to come.
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Sugar Coated
One of my gifts Is best served cold If you inhale my gift Your brain will freeze If you let it linger It will melt Sticking to everything While attracting flies If you use the wooden stick Provided to you You will receive splinters If you use a spoon I…
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Spring
Where else is it Socially acceptable To dress Half naked While replacing Warm layered clothes By sunscreen Shorts and Smiles that form organically Relaxing Sleeveless Pant less Flip flopping along Your soul hanging Between Your toes Exposure to the untamed earth Is worth the burn …
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The Significance of Time
If our left sided brain Did not have to be so logical We could easily prove that These seconds . . . Hold more Space Than forgotten years