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Human will and intention

If there was reason

In every wave

Then there would be no crashing

No tides

No turning of days

Ever in the skies above as below

No

Such things are arbitrarily designsled

To do exactly as

They ought to

But might not

If we

As human beings

Be

As we are

Ever obsenant

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Flow and flow

Life is such a flow

Yet entirely different from feel

We are waves

We are rocks

We are clouds

And we are stars

Sometimes up

Below as above

And yet always

We are not

When shaken and crashed

When tumbled and rolled

When coasted into storm

And burnt out unborn

So our ending is suddenly known

And back to flow we go

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Alive, and free, in an American game

When last is last

And I have moved

Beyond the space of movement

Into still

Please know that I

Was the only enemy I had

The only source of discomfort known

Was truly me

And to look up and see

That ball fly free

Into the great wide sky and beyond

Any confines of mortal men alive

In those moments I smiles

More than wider can wide

Because there I was free

And with those teammates most alive

And inline

Saying "good game"

That was me

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Suddenly alone as wishes

Believe it or not

You can get your wish

(To be left alone)

The only problem then

Is

(That you are)

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Rippling above

My life is like a stone

And though thrown

I hope to look up

Someday and see

All the ripples and waves

Once made by me

But

Most likely

I'll just sink

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Sight, such things aren't yours

When I see
Other sunshine now
It's very different
Than the days before

Now when I see
That bright light of youth
Bursting through

I am no longer in the lone of sight
The warmth, or direct path of that equation

Instead I smile
For the future bright
Which that light will find
And the warmth therein
For someone else

In whatever way it is felt

Its not about me

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Sublime Time

Time loses me

And evades my mind

Until exactly when

It calls me back

When I least want it to be

A found lover around


This is the plight 

Of the hard thinking man

For his work is never too far off

From his mental reach


Or so I find

Buried away in this

Poetic mind of mine


The underlying current is always moving

And far more interestingly


Sublime


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How working mine, mind works

Be still my mind

Make neither it

Nor heart

My king

For away is only

Another way for me

If it's not one of many things

Then it's a thousand inbetween

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Trust in rest

The idea that rest

Can be scheduled somehow

Is like the idea that life

Will be morefully lived

Once you have or have had

Or willed what is to is

And it won't

Ever

Trust me

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Behind all curtains

Behind all curtains

At the end of scenes

Neath credits which roll

Know this something about me

Not when young

But always and regardless of old

I am anxious for life

And for over and free

I am nervous about failure

Not for you but, more selfishly, for me

Because I do not rest well

Atop the grave of memory

No, instead I find myself excited

To be done

And in my own perception to be

From myself most obviously "Free"

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Un-focus

People respect achieved focus

Results result from a lack of life

Because focus requires

This unilateral sight

Which means you see less

Of at least one kind of light

Be it before or at dusk

Make sure what you're building

Is both what you really want

Like

And also what is right

Make sure

Lest you look up

And miss your own life

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Maintenance

Time is a life

To those who lived

And worked and slept

There before

You had ever arrived

And yet

All that time

Is but a resulting decay

Neath a once kept house

And such hours from now are far away

From you at present

Don't you see?

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Hearts which ache always turn

A heartache

Never truly goes away

Or so I find

Instead it turns

And in directive measures

Find

Itself a new aching direction to take

When ine ache dies

Inevitably

Another one awakes

And cries

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Nights Rise

And when night falls
It is only for a spell
Undercast and gray
In growing return once again
Like the grass in spring
Or the sun in morn
No night alone was felled
It was not fallen
Into anything but a dream
For it is here
And with each eveing after dark
A new moonlit star is born

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How she sleeps

Sleep

True sleep

Is something of which

I so often dream

And wish for this whilst

I am awake

And she

Rest peacefully by mea

Without a fear in the world

How I wish I could be

Such a person

So far away from self

As her

When she dreams

I wish

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Remebering a cup

Do you
Remember
The minor coffee
The major cup
Which you held at this time
Two weeks ago
?

The average man
Will not
Think not
Having not
Thought
About such
.

This
Is the nature of life
Once gone
Once hot
Once we felt like it was
Enough.

But now we've forgotten
And have moved on
To another cup
.

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Time is, a tanka

Time is friendly in

The presence of those most close

Who we have since chose

But falls like a stone down down

Am unmotivated well

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