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Home Make

So few among us

Make me feel at home

Let me know I am

And reassure me of this

That Ill never belong

Though to them I need not

There are no true homes

On this rounded earth

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Feelings were rain

Dont run from rain

Or catch me in it too much

For fear of shrinking this inseam of mine

I dance to dance

Look up to see

And smile back at both cloud and gas

As skies were never meant to be

More than vapor and fog

More than thoughts and hearts

No mover is without moving moved

But I am the eyes which will not last

Like weighted cloud stormy night

This feeling will fall and inevitably pass

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Radiance, a tanka

I can't explain this

How it now feels to just see

You radiantly

Happy based on this subtle

Little smile of mine your way

Saria

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A former least

A promise to self

Means so little to self

Or so it seems

In relationship to this follow-through

Failed

It is strange then I find

That I'm a flake to my own wishes

That I fail myself instantly

When in knowing memory

I choose not to remind

Why do I say that I ought to just try?

Should it not already be done?

Why?

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Timeless Spent

I'm not afraid of wasting time

Or of waiting too long

No such thing exists

What painting is perfect

What brush would not wish

For another stroke of itself in color

No eye

I

Am a being most unaware of my own mortal bliss

How I wish and wish for either time or not

For either peace to be

Or that most precious opposite of thought

To tell me I am at peace would ruin it for me

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Little Towns

The best thing you can do

For a dusty little

Or sleepy aging town

(In the north east)

Is write a novel there

And give the town all the credit

That's how you create loyalty

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SariaHeart

I want to love you

Even more than

My own selfish mind

Loves itself

(Far too much of the time)

Saria

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Stomach

Hunger

Beneath all surfaces

Is a most human thing

Though often embodied by not

Hunger is this

This most feeling of feast

Which we humans desire

In our gluttony

And find ourselves

Lost

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Fear not

What can the hand of man do to me?

Be it thrown in the sea

To be devoured by the leviathan

Or burried deep beneath the earth

Before my last breath shall pass

I rest

Knowing outcome and father alike

Because my soul burns like a flame

Atop an eternal candle alight

In a much higher place than the twinkling sky

And in a hall further mow than stars are alive

I smile

And know heavenly host and home alike

For what can they do?

Plenty to this hollow body

But nothing to me and mine and mind

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Lesser Wishes

Sometimes a wish

Is no more true

Than an eternal day

No more reliable

Than a winters storm

On the outskirts of May

Though you may wish that a wish

Was indeed here to stay

Most loyal and true to truth

Moreoften than ought

A wish is just your wanting of being

Most anywhere which you are not

Currently

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Paper Haikus

Dreams start on paper

And die on paper cutouts

Just the same in time

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Young, old, and I

Young and old

But especially so

Have questions more important

Than anyone or else or thing

The old man sees this

And dies with answers

Having seen

The time slip by

Children are most anxious

To grow up and be

And in breathing to have

Lived their lives

But I

No old from living just the same

Know what its like to wait on children

Having once been questioned lame

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My heart a few years ago

For days I did not rustle

And was without

And then suddenly

Like a breeze

This beautiful sprite

Walked into my arms

Breathed spring into me

And I grew again

As I once had done

Tall into the sky

To new heights unknown

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In a sky wholly your own

Your passion is a glowing sun

In a sky only I have seen

And in warming burn not

Too hot for me

But in coaxing draws out

All of the colding frowns and former anxieties

Saria

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A painted view

The way God paints the sky

With his subconscious mind

Each day without either care or concern

Across the canvas of eyes


No less impressive then

Is the humanness of this

The way your care and concern

For the future grows in growth


Governed by the injust and justice

Colors a picture more brightly of you

Than of any morning hue

My camera eyes have ever seen in the sky


How you care I do not

But I love the sight all the same

How you live I know not

Though I am happy you do

Saria

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Something I’ve Learned

Ideas can be

Such wild and dangerous things

When not tempered with Why

When not vetted with Should

And when given to children

Before they believed

Even in themselves that they could

Dream your own dreams, son

Noone elses you should

It's not worth it

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Some, Time

Some,

In drowing for the lack thereof

Either need it or hate it

So very much so,

That the very blood in their veins is not enough

And others,

On park benches

Without a care in the world

Dance, knowing freedom

As a closer friend than any human

As for me I don't know

Though I know I need to dance more

Time

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Doing, a haiku

Would you ask the ball

How a golfer made the shot

I think not, he did

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Falling back to earth

Names and buildings

Rise up for just moments

In the eyes of the creator

Our years are not years

But baked clay stacked lowed

Above homedirt to which

All of these surfaces

Must ultimately go

Inconsequential is the word

This day

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Mirroring, a tanka

Try as you may try

With intentionality

Until the bluest

Of skies and eyes are found

Looking back as a blessing

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