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Two skies

Two night I knew

When I walked out under the sky

Not blue

But darker than the sea at its deepest

And felt the softness of future breath

Her whisper quiet in my ear

Sp close

For a rain was coming

Gently in from a future

Just boundless the west

And to the I we ran

Until it cracked no more

Then all was silent once again

And I slept

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Watching Life

We watch dominoes fall

We watch people fail

But the average human being 

Doesn't think nearly enough

About seeing themselves 

Lead

Win 

Strive

And in changing 

Prevail


It's a shame really

As there's no other life which you'll have


So live it


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Pursuit, passion, a life in flow

This passion

My soul aches to be young

To be free in the flow

And pursuit

Free of time

In a place where I

Am unbridled, unbound

And I breathe with the breath

Of a being once known

To me here in my youth

In my memory

In which I've thrived

How I long for the once held

Close forgotten

Clean

High

Of life

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A talkative mom

I knew to much

To not say so little

And so I thought

These words of mine

Had expressed enough

To bend the fates

To be at peace in mind

But no

None ever

Such words as water

Are enough

To satisfy

Such an insatiable apatite

For this

The original know

Of a love most kind

Goodbye

Is a said

Which I thought I knew

Until she passed

Me by

You were a mom

I love you

And you were mine

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Shining lights

A telented soul

Has a duty to shine

But not to extend themselves perhaps

So much into the sky

As for as they were given

So to this life they comply

In even shining at all

Through the day

But also alight

Through the darkest night

Dont be afraid

Be alive in your craft

Ignite

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Exactly where I wanted to be, eight hours later

Hear my young breath

Take a bite out of life

Hear my old soul

Speak a quiet still night

Into the existence of mind

For as surely as I once was here

Still am I still

In moving pens and typing hands

Atop corner seats at coffee swills

Where ink and pen and frustrated quill

Are burried in a white of cloud

There hear my thought for you, instilled

Would you climb and sit this literary hill

Would you?

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I wind like this

A night alone

Is not so much about

The experience of me

But a chance to be thought

To be poured out and sound

Out like a drum in these silent woods

I wind like this

My yarn and twine

With a crackling leaf

So that I might be unwound

By you

My 1:35 newborn June tree

If I walk will you shelter me

From the dew?

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Tanka wishes

My wishes pile up

But do not grow from the ground

Though that does not stop

The heart earth which still seeks me

To be churned and tilled alive

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Parking lots

I walk because
I just want to be lost
On the trick of thought
No more
So I beg
In a circular motion to be
Free at last
Free indeed
Away from both mind and me

And so I walk
Because
I am unfree

For now

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A bond is new

A bond is not a bad thing

But a bad thing is something

Or someone

Who or that I wish

You would never have to be

Bonded to

For life is too short

And good love is too deep

To have to live with these

Such shallow mistakes

My advice

Think, plan

Do not make what you will not want

Ever

For a bond is new, and it's making should not

Be a wake

It is not

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Goodnight, most honest self

When you finally learn

To be honest with yourself

About feelings and doubt

And sleepless

And your opinions on stoudt

Then

Be it in waking

You can find and find out

What really matters to you

Once whatever simple

Household accessible

Drug your currently on

Has run out

Time

Money

Distraction

Or guise

For me it was the sleepless thing

Which took me finally

Closes enough to realize

That this is life, and it lives

Even when you close your eyes

It IS

There still, moving

Goodnight

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Goodbyeing

Losing a parent

Is not watching someone else

(Lose a parent)

It's not comforting another

Or making yourself available to a brother

Or thinking quietly "poor bastard"

No, it is lonely

And humbling

And quietly greeted with internal mourning

Because you can plan all you want

But when it's your time to speak

To noone at all

You will know that they've risen

And especially if they fall

This is a given

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Upstreams

Somedays the earth smiles back
And other days a frown
Gathers closely like clouds
Just above your eyes
And all a man can do
Really
Is look upon to understand
And see the small triggers
And the upstream of whys

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Seeing

What you saw

Before you

Is mostly

But not always

A more conscious representation

Of what unconscious (or consciously)

Wishes to be

Seen

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The men who must

In regards to me

And my father as well

One of the hardest things

For this kind of man to do

Is nothing

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Honestlywhoknows

Do you

Have an obligation to share

A great collective

A life's work of self

If indeed

It was only for self

And was yours

Most known?

Honestlywhoknows

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The right side of Joy

The idea that someday

You will wake up and find

Yourself on the other side

Of the joyful fence

Of the happiness tree line

Is not even remotely close

If you have never stepped

Or dreamed or prayed aloud

How then can you ever expect to be found

When all that there is around

Is destined for loss

This is the nature of both our earth

And joy, which is not of this earth

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From this today

We respect legacy makers
For what they make
Not for how they did
But because they caused
And at one time lived

But a hundred years from now
Out there in the future
There will always be some young kid
Who never even knows the name
Or from this today what is

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Life most endless

There is this endless thing

With life called wish

And being away from it is

To see the stars again

Without illuminated illuminessenc

Or a clear ounce of old sunlight amiss

And we in our escapism

Wish no longer to wish

And only to hold

Onto distractions for so long

Before we're right back in day

And the light turns a brilliant white from gray

Such an achievement, period, is this

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When viewing the struggles of others

A struggle you see

Means nothing more

Than humanity embodied

The more important response

Is not of them

But of you

Of how you react and think

In regards to their

Situation and being

So let it be

And trust in these

Words of not judging so easily

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