Can You Stare into Mine

It called to me against my will / A light that defined heart / A distant solemn cry like burning amber in the deep

If Stars Could Say

We are all of us a force to be challenged, and quite capable of making decisions for ourselves. But we are also governed by a grand design that, we have to admit, is quite provocative.

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Kindred

“I’d dare to chance a thousand starlit nights and those distanced between…That a kindred soul like yours were real.”

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Courtship

“I was taught love but not how to love. Born with love to give, but not the way to give it.”

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Flower

“The crime is not admiring beautiful things. The cry, is not taking into account that they are abused.”

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My Heart's Rapture

“At some point you have to trust your judgment, draw the lines, and create your masterpiece.”

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Challenge

“The challenge is setting aside the ordinary. It’s that “you time” that you can’t get during sleep.”

The Only World I Know

It is not my wish, rather I have not been told that I must cheat my fellow man/ seek out his demise/ yet I see the crime.

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Ego

…as we fight to the death we will return to the outside, to those not thinking of us, and make ourselves known.

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Happiness Chose Me

But I am most happy in the arms of those who chose me/ removing my quip to make a decision in the first place.

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The Cold

Each detail wove, each line defined

a record for the soul

And in each line a burden laid

embedded by the cold

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The Sands I've Chartered

Let us adjudicate all our strength. We will smile throughout the discord/ because adjacent to our smile is our holocaust.

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Sweet Caress

Pacific wind that holds me sweetly

I would die if not to sleep

Gentle arms which fold to meet me

Flow to reach this deep instilled

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At A Glance

Had I known the nature of her I’d not curse the nature of me

Illicit

“Fear is useful here. It recognizes what is not known to it better than any sense.”

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That's Why We Love Poetry

We are surrounded by everyone's wants, desires, and needs without yet understanding our own.

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Deeply

It hides its drought so poorly, slowing to vacancy and meagerly tasting what it can to sustain/ giving way for the occupants that can’t do without

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The Keep

This solid stone for touch had stubborn thick with walls I had withdrawn

A thousand times to feel what I had not and others moved beyond

The Doorway

There’s a point in every lifeline,

but I’ve witnessed just my own

Many times I’ve fallen simply

just to find which line to hold

And there are steps that I have taken,

without knowing where to go

And every time I’ve met a doorway,

with one step still left to go…

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Family

I shout—the scream from the fall of my

careless and unanticipated step. An answer’s

given without delay. It tightens and prepares

for my capture and holds me securely, and

sets me on my way.

“It has been assumed, tacitly and avowedly, directly and indirectly, that the ultimate object of all Poetry is Truth.”

“I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.” - Socrates.

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