there is no window / no rhyme                 

of a wildfire like the sun,                                   i glaze / i blaze / i burn                                  like sap inside the heartwood,                                 crackling, quietly             with courage.          

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I need to buy groceries,

A task so mundane,

A moment full of possibilities,

Yet there's no real gain.

I need to eat more,

The judging eyes said,

But they don't see behind the door,

That the need is dead.

I need someone, or is it want?

Wanting is great, needing is not,

I don't want to need, I need to want.

Needing means no space is left,

In want th...

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There is a marble statue of a girl, in the city square,

People marvel at her all the time, enchanted by her air,

By her thin-lipped smile and her eyes, as soft as clouds,

Her towering presence, enough to silence every crowd.

And yet, there is a melancholy that nestles in her face,

An echoing anguish, shrouded by her simple grace

For that marble statue of the girl, solitary a...

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I am nothing,

Nothing but a used to be,

The past seems so safe,

By it's comforting predictability,

I am regret,

Regretting being different,

Living my life the way I wanted,

Now, from others, I feel distant.

I am anger,

Angry that I don't possess,

Possess what they have,

I am enough, I am not less.

I am truth,

Horrible and hurting,

Rare and s...

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Why am I falling again, this can't be the end, right?

After I promised I won't give up without a fight,

The shackles promised to fill the empty space

They brought me down, to the reality I need to face

Down to a familiar place, a gallery of lost fights,

Each fall leaving a crater, making a masterpiece of sorrow

The scorching fire of anger, creating a path of lights

To a p...

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It used to be beautiful,
The light scattering through me,
Despite empty, feeling full,
By this formless familiarity.

It used to be simple,
No need to be noticed,
I was happy, with a soul single
From the light constant and focused.

But all things must come to a pass,
Even the light one day won't matter,
It's destined to happen for every glass,
To reach the day it starts to shatter.

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The road is vast, filled with promise and fire,
The promise on both sides, destruction on either,
The illusion is to burn one or walk the other,
Or is it the force pushing me to aim higher?

The mask is heavy, made by their illusions,
Made by those who walked the road before me,
Locked away my inner world behind solutions,
Made by me to show them what they wanted to be.

The more you wal...

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And there it goes,
Slipped right through,
As the time flows,
It changes with you.

A question worth everything,
Why am I alive? What is the meaning?
Is it right to keep searching?
Or should I just keep living?

I'm finally here,
Made choices without a map,
Without a destiny mere.

The sun is up,
And now I'm free,
For the meaning in life,
Is chosen by me.

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There was a picture by my bedroom window

Three trees

their leaves turned copper

the sun caught low between them

a strip of blue at the top

I knew that picture by heart

the crooked branch

the dark patch of trunk

even the small road disappearing 

behind the last tree

Now it is autumn again

This morning, a leaf

 caught on my window latch

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there is a voice
that rules our heads
upon victory
upon failure
cheering / spitting
unclearly.

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And when you find her,

lost in a book,

I know you wonder,

Why is she smiling,

at some random piece of paper?

So for sure you call out to her,

say her name,

but she doesn't listen, does she?

for that girl?

is diving deep into the folds of,

someone else's mind,

experiencing first encounters,

that she knows,

will stay with her for a life time,

she treads new ...

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Walking blind in the darkness 

outreached hands 

calling no names

godless

I ask where I am 

and nothing answers 

dante walked with a poet beside him

but my path is wordless 

no witness

I wail so someone will hold me 

the darkness clothes my body

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At three in the morning 

the sky misplaced its face

Stars fell into the streets 

like spilled salt

and the moon

that old silver coin

rolled beneath the city

Nobody noticed

Except the windows

Every window opened one eye

A thousand eyes

Not to watch me

no

To remember 

The first remembered a boy

the second, a buried ...

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Here I stand,
line drawn in the sand
One you’ve moved so many times

How I wish you could understand
that what I wanted
more than anything
was a friendship pure and true
How can you not remember
it was you who left
whilst I picked up the pieces
rebuilding my heart
I have moved forward
but you’re stuck behind
chasing ghosts
when I’m right here

But with each push
each manoeuvre
e...

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Strutting out my room,
Clad in oversized shirt and well-worn boots
I begin the catwalk
Tip-toeing temptingly
Down the passage of stairs
Out the door now,
I saunter on gilded pavement
To where the bus will be

Sitting on metal seat
Bright lights,
Broad daylight
My legs crossed over
Provocative
Mint in mouth
Gliding chapstick on my lips
I catch your eye
You sailor boy
When you see ...

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Child of God
Hereditary condition
Vines on the family tree
Untangled and trimmed
In cures of nature
Aloe, lavender, bitters
Valid in their own rights
But insufficient
Pin it on my star chart
Diagnosed in mysticism
Wind sign my condition

Now scholar in the making
Adult only in number
Leveraging academic leads
Opening a new way
My hope twinkles like glitter
For pills and therapy
A...

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Standing in the driveway
I see my reflection through a car door mirror
A ruddy, half-formed echo
As awkward as she is hopeful
A naive school-girl stance
Hoping to hide her dirty knees
And those unsightly patterns
Stitched in a forgotten teenage nightmare
And sealed with dodgy Skype encounters
Pull me ever forward
I wonder
With bags around me
What will this journey cost?

He greets me...

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“Welcome to your life”
Get up
Get dressed
Take your pills
And optional blue can
To defrag your brain
Put on that cloak
greyer than the ash
On your cigarette

Now you’re stumbling off
Past the refuge of your room
To the cold, public
Bathroom
Lights fluorescent
Brushing those teeth
From dirty to just yellow
Spit it out
Rinse your face
Look up
To the sticker-studded mirror
Hair o...

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Grubby little fingers,
Syrup-sticky hands
You took me
You oversized toddler
And I
Nothing more
Than a garage sale Barbie
For you to bend and break
Testing every joint
Twisting at the socket
Putting those
Grimy hands
Where they should never be

How I wonder
If your beady eyes noticed
That skin-bound picture book
Scribbled on my thighs
Perhaps you chose
To skip those finer lines
...

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I was racing to the station
My fare paid in yellow pills
And flat orange Fanta
The toll was too high
I couldn't catch the bus
Instead I laid
On my best friend's couch
Sick and shameful
Parental anger blinding

I kept coming back
Back to that station
Negotiating payment
In suspicious liquids
And a kaleidoscope of unimpressive pills
All times I was rejected
Left to take the long way ...

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There is a strange country 

where the sun rises

and another day begins

a country held together 

by borders drawn by hands

that never learned the names

of the rivers they crossed

Here, the earth remembers

It remembers 

footsteps older than roads

the language of drums

before the language of guns

the hands that planted millet

and called the rain by its...

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In the North

beneath the birch trees

where cool winds wander 

and rain sinks softly 

into the moss

lilies bloom

small white bells

pale as morning

trembling with dew

They call to the earth

in the quiet of the valley 

while thrushes sing

among the branches

and the wind moves slowly

through the leaves

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Nothing, I feel

as I wait for the sun to rise,

and the wind to warm

Nothing happens

as I watch you sitting

living, from afar

Nothing sits at the door

yet I do not go

to let it in

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enlightening, insight  
A flash of light
Nikola Tesla's brightest idea

proper etiquette 
“oh my mind my business, mine!”
A light bulb 
in Thomas Edison’s head

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ADD
positive & negative
takeaways

one focal point

multiple tasks demand
undivided attention

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shimmers —
glimmers —

glitters N’ glints 

glitz and glam

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His & Hers
Jeans - worn out
T-shirt’s sleeves - torn off
in sandals
on a tandem bike ride
we bought and shared
a pair of socks to wear

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black glasses
staring off into space
sun gazing

UV rays & nighshades

I went pale then had to face my plants
after I forgot I have to water them


and again, A crystal clear conscience

eclipses, ellipses

Ritualistic 
The sin of omission

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divide N’ multiply 

X,Y

it’s a boy

wait… a second
it’s twins!

23 and me

sequences the double helixes

the test results came back identical

no cheater either

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on the clock

I asked my boss for time off

Steve Jobs’s Apple Watches

can add an app and play a video

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the snowflake of a snow angel

A mathematician

and, the repeatable geometry sacred

to lesser dieties

metatron’s cube

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toxic

smoking, blowing it in my face

like a childhood bullies idea of love

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rich

decadent

fish eggs

and Crème fraîche

(section 10k) California

fish and game

unlicensed seamen

perform illegal sturgeon C-sections

and then they lay the guts

next to them on a table

lying trying to hide the knife

in A body of water

Wildlife Activists

advocate an all natural

actual assisted water birth

Nirvana

freedom from rebi...

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sticky weed turned dry

and burned, you can try to

but can’t get a buzz

from the buds anymore

cannabis extract

butane honey oil

honey comb

floral notes and aromas

known fact that smoke triggers the bees to feed

thinking it’s a california wildfire

eating heavily

till there’s too much food

in their belly for bending and stinging

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on an atomic level
molecules don’t make physical contact

physics

the most powerful
of the four
The strong force

and, The Big Bang was said: 
“smaller than the head of a pin”

A metaphor for condoms

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A snapped tree branch wrapped so that the sap doesn’t seep

bandaged pressure-treated wood’s untapped life essence trapped inside immortalized

the wind element in the wand

you can hear the sound of a breeze against dead trees which are without their leaves

the chemicals essential as identical to oxygen as fire is to h2o a lake in nature

the dirt, earth it’s e...

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give & take
Inspiration

isn't it infinite
if multiplicative

the sum totality of
one another
plus another one

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and, after that...
make up sex 

then,
have a break down
...again

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couples
feud

take half
pay your taxes

cash or card

“till death do us part”
the cost of living crisis
prices rise

“by the power vested in me”
money is power
ours

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day dreaming
of being a prize fighter

the referee’s hands out
A standing 10 count

get up just like I do
at 4 AM for a run

saved by the bell
the thing rings

and, I have to return
back to my stool

Ding! Ding! Ding!

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two points…
to be made

faking this
connection
disconnected 

A sublime line
misconstrued

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creativity leaves us with
A lasting impression
for our imagination

the infatuation of two lovers

who make the same mistake

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papa bear is scared about loud sounds
around, mama bear be very careful
she takes care of the baby bears 
and, they will purr with their surrogate

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The blind—
afraid of
—The Light

equipped with a stick
to poke at road kill

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Christ Consciousness
in God’s Image

what are the odds

that I am not

in some simulacrum
of original sin

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outside voices

inner whispers

Gods stare off

the face of the deep

space and time

the speed of light

and dark side of the moon

heat waves

in a pool of sweat

on groundhog day

cold blooded

cotton mouth snakes

humid

there is no running water for miles

in Death Valley

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news exclusive

Got it! I botted… resale

can be for females and or male

A status symbol

posing posting emojis

dollar signs and a 100 that’s  double underlined

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gained a reputation

repeated again
and, added on
one too many
descriptive adjectives

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I sweareth and have witnessed it

when it comes to the gifted and wickedness 

god giveth and he taketh away

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everyone has to go
and use the bathroom
legs crossed
from the sound
once you start
running a bath
and that zen water falls
out of the spout

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