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To myself

I need not

I fear not

I worry not

Bout being there

Where I should be

Has ever been

Where I am meant

I need no more

My time will come

As turns the earth

This newness now

Unborn will be

Until in bursting

My day is forth

I'll fear no missing such

Excluded need

You couldn't possibly understand

The old me I don't need

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The word

Christ is not a book you pick up only when you feel like reading. He is the word itself, and the foundation of language. Our very being is his speech.

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Without me in Bold

My heart hurts most

When I see the life of living

Without me in bold

I've always had this love hate for time

But since you arrived

I never want to let a moment of you go

Without you

Now more than ever

I no longer wish to grow old

Not for an instant apart

Saria

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Desire of

It took years

For ambition to catch

Me by the ankle

And pull me out

Of my mother freedom

From responsibility

And yet

How I want

More than ever now to say

That a building is mine

And that I am that which makes

Not useless things

But new men out of old

And true legacy of something

Out of broken misfit nothings

My desire is this

In passing

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No and yes

Do I wonder where you are?

No

Do I wish you well and far away?

Yes

Very much so

You are not the only one who goes

Or should

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Noise haiku

Sound makes spaghetti

Out of thoughts which ought to rise

My glutenless eyes

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Certainties

There are two certainties on this earth
The second is death

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Houses homes tankas

My heart is neither

Meant for slums nor bright stained glass

For brick and mortar

Unintelligently placed

My homeface will outlast

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When the day falls

Fear not

Even when the day falls

Where the mountains come

Walking down the hills of their siblings

For the end is good

And no good review would remain such

If the dream did not wake

If the day did not fade

And if you did not go

For we are all just awaiting

Either one coming or going of home

Maranatha

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Self unawares

My optimism is such

So easily for others

That I leave myself behind

And never tell anyone

That I was lost all along

Am I really free?

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A swing

We men know an unbalanced thing

When a ladder isnt going to crash

And the kind of jumping rope

From which you swing

And we see it all the time

From around the age of five

Until the day we die

We know pie before its even pie

Because as men we were born to taste

Either one or all of all the baked things

I say this now because I see the swing

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Endless burn

A man can burn only so much

Before hes five dollars worth of ash

And noone can tell him to stop lighting matches

Such a flame is a choice

And to be managed as such

Since incineration is such a very personal thing

And as for me

I always strike

I must

This obseasive mind is awful sometimes

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Just a caress

Gently yet with shocking fuss

A cat stands on its end

Fresh grass begins again

And entire crews are cut and trimmed

With just a motion of your hand

I am lost, awake, and asleep again

Ive never worn a cape in a car before

But you make me feel like steel

With thise things so small

As your fingernails

Saria

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Eye Color, A Tanka

Color me a sea

As deep and dark and blueish

As the shared lilly green

Which your mother also knows

Yet bring me fresh water please

Saria

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A Hummingbirds haiku

Gentle wings beat down

At speeds which no eye can see

And hum like small bees

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Rise up after

The fate of man

Is to try and try again

And in his failures feel

And in his successes feel also

As high as sky and as low as shattered earth

Ground down into these new substances

Nothing

This something is special

Though even it may not come to pass

Still we must try

And both human and being

To fail itself is to outlast

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Nontraditional

I am not a traditionally practical man

Though I've learned to pretend

To be and become

Instead I am

And have have accepted this fate

Because in leau of practicality I am

That which I create

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Possible outcomes

A belief when held

By those capable hands

Can quickly become a new reality found

If you just don't give

And let self away slip

Who knows what kind of potential outcomes

Can be found

Who knows indeed

Stop complaining and believe

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A world is not

A world is not a world

Without those inhabitants who

Are alive and well and vocal enough

To call it so

This around

Is not always

A truly rounded view

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Steaming coffee, a tanka

Steam rises in front
Of tired eyes awake
And coffee greets me
Like an old lovers embrace
I am consumed by your steam

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