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I wondered into the British Museum

I wondered into the British Museum

Accidentally.

I had no business being there.

“It is free admission,”

You reminded me.

“Free?  There cannot be such thing.

When visitors enter artifacts

With their minds,

They carry pieces away

Like a colony of ants.

It is destruction

Invisible to the naked eye.

Envious, greedy visitors

Stealing a precious collection

With ...

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Half-life half-lived

I cut an apple

In two halves precisely.

Now how do I choose

The finer half?

Life is made up of

Half-truths and half-lies

And then of the almosts.

My half-live half-lived…

The other half is still

Inside the magician’s hat.

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TRAIL OF POEMS

TRAIL OF POEMS

nowhere
to go
dog without
a bone
not here
or there
not
anywhere
so...so
small
not at
all
if i
disappeared
would they look
for me here
what would
they find
would they read
between the lines
see me on
a page
or throw
it away
would my
shine
come through
the blind
would i vanish
like night
in morrning
light
would it be
as if
i never
did exist
if th...

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philisophical

ROCKET

ROCKET

split and
shattered
silencing
inner clatter
missing rung
on Jacob's ladder
soul grows
old
from lies
told
dragged up
in a ward
double edged
sword
no chance
to bloom
for creativity
no room
typhooning
through
like a
corkscrew
spun
around
spiralled
down
turning
weather
nothing lasts
forever
stories i
can tell
secrets hidden
well
colorful
life
craziness
wi...

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NEVER ALONE

NEVER ALONE

shoulders
round
from being
put down
laughed
too loud
clown
in the
crowd
circle in
a square
didn't fit
anywhere
put on
game face
slowly
erased
self
conscious
shallow
pompous
shut
mouth
kept nose
out
please...please
no one
notice me
name
mistaken
shunned
forsaken
yearned for
home
found a
soul
now have
both
never
alone
closet full
of ghosts
bur...

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