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Your words mean more

Your words are no longer words to me

Like the sunlight unseen

On a cloudy day in May

Your words echo now

Not like light but like sound

In the trees of fall

Only your words stand

Taller than I and memories alike

Saria

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The living

Who am I to say that I know

The direction in which the world spins

The speed at which the leaves sway

The songs which all the birds sing

The location at which the ball will fall

But me and me, of which I know all

Turns out I know quite nothing of at all

For I just spin, and sway, and sing

And see it all as time does fall

Around me and all the time

Alive

Am I

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Days of lost

There are days I can smile back

At the universe looking at me

But alas

Today I cannot see

I am completely without

A path of sight before me

To smile

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Heart Causes


A young mans heart
Bleeds for things
And causes and self
But here
At the turning of centuric tide
Do find
That a true heart beats
For people and faith
For a consistency of mind
Unmatched
Innate

And so some of us do grow to find

More

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Constantly Constant

My worst enemy

Always presumed

To know me due to me

Having been my own

But now I see

Not that sight or time

Or the lack thereof

Or too much alone

Is what pulls me away

And ails me the most

No, instead most steadily

It is the engine of note

The human heart of hope

Which pulls at my mind

When my time is too much to me my own

Then all of my fears are shown

For I am powerless against an unknown

Me

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Zineas in the summer

Having declared my heart to be one with yours

I can only assume

That much like the zineas in the summer

My own myocardium is in bloom

For it is miles away at present

With you

And as for yours I can say

It seems most happy this day

(With me)

Saria

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Eternal, a tanka

I have no answers
Only guiding light and love
For those around me
Who, wish to know more about
The only father who lives

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A running pace

As a runner I

Love a race pronounced

And declared to be

Of certain length and time

For how else could I know

And be certain of steps

Without the structural norm

Of that race in mind

But then again, to what end

Will I go and at when

Once I am suddenly there

At the occuring finishing line?

For such a runner as man

And in the me of preferred know

Perhaps I will just let go

And run out of this mind

Perhaps in distance unknown, I will be free of mine

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Beyond mere care

Caring is fine

And as a first step, towards walking, needed

But mind

Once bent and pulled into a compassionate grey

Must follow the path of need and want

Just to not turn around and say

"Not today, my enemy of mine"

For who else will give of their focal time

If not you when you see

That there is a genuine must and need

Laying bare before your feet

Its time to walk in a different manner

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Legacy, a tanka

Fame is only this
A blessing which the breath has
Only when its gone
No true maven is ever
Recognized before their end

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UnDoubt

A mystery which

Seems completely unknown

You may think that you feel

Most strongly about

But know this

For as surley as I tell you, no

There is another world out there

Is a galaxy most near

Which you have already chosen

So

Don't even waiver for a second

At the sight of flag or starry night in sky

For we all feel the wind and sea and sunlight

And no warmth will ever compare to a memory

Of her most consistent eyes

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Resolving

Don't let anything

Keep you from the comfort of writing

Especially if it's something of yourself

Within the home in which you dwell

Be free to the word

To write, and to spell

Be free

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Building Words

Turn these words into more than just thoughts

Would you mix them like clay

Build them like bricks

And grow them like trees in the forest of naught

As I send them to you

A most resoundingly such

(from me)

All I ask that you build back

Your own thoughts in mind

As mine once did arrive

From you to me

We are always building

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A weak willed pen

Dont tell me what I will not own

You arrogant pages

You insufferable author

My life, this world, my decisions

These are all my own

And I own them more than you owned your own words

You are weak in optimism

And strong in the art of selling something false

Just so the others beneath you wont feel so alone

Don't tell me what I will not own

Watch me own it instead

And be quiet

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A writers tanka

Wake up my still mind
Jolt this memory alive
In me and in time
So that I might share in words
And in these sentences find

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Achievement

A dream achieved is no longer a dream

Separated from me

Just as a dream achieved is no longer a dream

But now what I once hoped to see

A reality

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Stone Shores

White waters crash

On cold shores of tall stone

And sound

Like the whispers of doves

In the waking hours of old

For they were there

Most long before

And also so they will be so

When the world is young and new again

Renewed before the throne

10,000 years of which I know

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I am no card player

These are my cards

They are out on the table

I am in love with you and love you

.

I am in awe of you and awe inspired by you

.

I am at peace with you and most pleased with you

.

I like seeing you and also being with you

.

Please let me remain with you and also pray with you . my girl

Saria

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Thousands of verses

Someday you will wake

Into a morning of most comfortable known

Having heard the words

The sentences the night before

And the numbers by which

I have always called my own

And I will no longer be just you

But us

And in our togetherness

This we

The kind kindness which has been

Politely tucked behind the horizon

For quite sometime

We rise into a new day and shine like a life

In knowing each other more fully now

By this you will know

That you are most indefinitely

And I to you most happily

As one as one two hearts can be

For I am us and you are mine

Saria

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How you care for me

Not like sunlight on the moon

Or oceans beyond the desert

Or birds without a single tree

Or bees middst frozen tundra hives

Instead

You care for me in ways my past never did

To the point where no such memory even lives

And I am both greatful and excited at this

The reality of being cared for by you

Saria

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