There’s an art 
To letting go of something
You never fully held
Refilling the glass
That is your heart

Why do these thoughts
Always cut so deeply
They come in such vivid
Shades of sadness
I can barely breathe

There’s an art
To navigating 
These troubled straits
Letting go of past lives
And vanished friends

There’s art
In the way you choose
To love
And in the way you choose
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RAIN ART

Colourful art lays on the roof on this building

Leaving questions to ask with no one fielding

Anonymous they lay, doused in rain

More vivid are they as the rain runs down the drain

"Who made these pieces?", nobody asks

Just waiting benign for their next task

Given up and left to the elements

Like a memory lost to an Elephant

In the sun they run and rus...

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Straight and crooked one dimensional lines

Brush strokes from the hands of another who

Imposed upon my space

I used the colors and shapes to create texture and form

The confusion and clarity overlap

The confusion and clarity give it value

Darkness and Lightness accentuate the three dimensional forms

That extra line made the triangle a cone

Add a few more to make i...

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The 1st stanza asks a question to which the answer is, of course, “No”. John Milton wrote Areopagitica, an argument against censorship.

Sadly, in the Britain of 2025, poets, artists, journalists, religious leaders and The Man on the Clapham Omnibus now face routine harrassment by the UK Government and the police, enduring arrest and imprisonment without charge or trial: and for what? for oppos...

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He’ll write a hundred pages in a day

And work from dawn to dusk without a stop;

Especially when deadlines start to loom,

The level of his output will not drop.

Maintaining his plush lifestyle will depend

On such unsparing episodes of work;

He tears a plot from deep inside his mind

And in a month is signing with a smirk.

Then it is time to rest and to enjoy

The ...

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homosapiens
practicing chiropractors
correct us —
posture up —
try, and
… stand upright

formless before the big bang
chaotic with a dark past, and
the light an omnipresent
cognizant force with foresight
for the universes future is in order

simulation theory
0’s & 1’s
the singularity
near infinite
expanding with each addition
times, O
multiplied it is still nil

intrinsic

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