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A hope of home

The stone and rock which I've yet to know

Sits imperfectly on

A plot of land which I hope to meet

Just as our future shared

Is in its timeliness

Unbeknownst to us

All a man and woman can do is pray

And build and hope

And wish to seek and know

Where their land of home

Is becoming

Beneath God

All man, all woman, all prayer, all hope

Saria

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Chiropract

Twist my spine

Shake my kneck

Receive a looseness

Of a newly born life

Then pick me up

With a pop and a crack

And I'll sigh out my back

With a temporal relax

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Flesh not gears

Those who think

For only themselves

Never see anyone else

For any other reason

Than their own device

And this is sad

Because human beings

Are the furthest thing possible

From a mechanical device

We are flesh and bone and embodied alike

We are alive

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University of Life

College is pretending

And sweat pants

And complaining alike

The only difference

Being

In work

Your clothes change

Bill gets get larger

To compensate

And your either eat this

Your responsibility

Or your response

To the most negative emotion shown

(Or the opppsote)

Which spikes

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Heavens Earth

Sky, moon, and stars collapse

Into a bed of oxygen

Sheathed with hydrogen

Strange bedfellows these

Know their children

The planets

Having been born from the knowledge

Of movements

And helium alike

"Arise" says the sun

With each new morning

They share and see not what you can't

For the sky loves the stars

As the sun kisses moon

With moonlight alive each night

And together they are envious

Of both noone

And all

Beneath each of the these, a celestial guise

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LITerature

The most despicable persons alive

Are those who try

And write wrongs into kids minds

Who pollute books and pages with

With infinite isms

Which deliver no story

Or concur smiles with no innocent rhyme

Instead they spead like weeds in the summertime

And are deserving of Nonesuch

Impressionable eyes

Leave literature alone

Light fires instead

Your opinions are not equally alive

Be gone

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One day I'll rest

One of these years

In bedroom universe not too far from here

I will close my eyes

I will see no more

I will dream of willing

With a vague outline of bold memory

The kind which I've always adored

I will sleep the sleep which I was meant to be

Born

And I cannot wait for this

I refuse to wait

Anymore

Good night

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Ever rolling, me

As a rock

Embedded in a hill of green

There are many ways which I could've rolled

Many directions turning which I could've seen

I'm thankful that, as I rolled and rolled

I never stopped and settled

Saying, this portion of this hill is strictly for me

For even now as I am rolling

Albeit happily so

I will never stop being, as I always will be

Rolling

Forward

Me

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Three seasons, a tanka

I miss the warmness

of the summers end, just when

the autumn is born.

And yet the winter's still far

as the burning stars are, cold

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An oddity

Every single one of these folks

Put on their pants today

And then their shoes

In that order

Mind you

Isn't that weird to think about?

No?

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An ocean surface hue

Green waters

Beyond white flowers

Ripple like the Pacifics gleam

Without so much as a stare, they shimmer

With far more than a glimmer, their sheen

As in seeing I look

And in smiling your sea

Is neither cold nor foreboding

But the most beautiful of greens

And I'm lost in the sight

Am just as happy to have seen

How white flowers once provoked sun

To stir the light in your waters keen

Saria, shared

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In Gondolin

White cities

Perched beneath white mountains still

In the distance waving as a son

Who greets you home and back as one

Such sights as these

Beneath the sky

Cause ripples great

In the eyes of men

How they sigh and sway and wish therein

When they see the walls of Gondolin

White city walls

Beneath to cold tall mountain peaks high

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Conceive, a tanka

Life battles with us

To be born again and when

We least expect us

Our bodies to breathe in sunlight

Or mind to accept this new

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Past stars, a tanka

Where I've been in life

Pulls me no more than the sky

Pulls itself apart

At the thought of burning stars

Which never really fall down

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My Hearts Tanka

My heart races slow

As if knowing its own end

My heart wants only

To beat again in succinct

Rapid and full expression

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Rest and less less

I'll find no peace today

No matter where I look or choose

I cannot hide or wish myself to be

Somewhere I cannot see, away

And though in wish I will discover

And think I must this

Of something in my most causal way

I'm stuck between that awkward place

Where I cannot work

Or find a proper ounce of time to waste

My weekend now be whisked away

And I no wiser for its deception

I cannot rest this unease away

I don't know

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There is only that

In all that I do

That which both is and was

Between the woulds

The best

All the shoulds

And the because


There is only that

Which would be considered

By us

And all those awkward inbetweens

Which we pursue

In a buzz


I get lost somewhere between the I and US

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Child hoodie

It amazes me how

My childhood self

Still lives on and breathes

Eternally in

The memories unbeknownst to everyone else

And yet this most adult me

Ever changes around

And in some part ls due

To these beings

Not being themselves

And in becoming so blue

I have since read (more fully) myself

You don't really (ever) stop growing

It's just in different ways about

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The day we decided

We rolled into a parking lot

Looked up at the sky and decided to fly

Take a trip, make a wish

Watch a wave crash upon the shores and die

Take a swing, make a dish

Taste the apples and spice

Watch the warm autumn leaves

Wave goodbye to us, twice

Lift your eyes to the sky

I look down to the ground

Cut the ice with a skate

Paint the conversions with towns

And of all of these thing

Are we not

But they must

Just like the day we decided to test out this us

Saria

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