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Look up, perfect flow

The floating words
To you in the sky
Will never be know (to be)
As they were intended
In this moment united
As the wings of planes
And birds do fly
Across and through
This unified canvas of white
And cloudy lines
Of sky

Look up and see
This intentional

Me

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Pairings, perfect flow

Every

I ought to be

Should be paired

In tune

With every you did

You were

You won

Such a song

And so as should

These youthful days of growth

Not be forgotten

Like a first promise lost

So soon

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Killing you faster, perfect flow

And then what?

It'll kill you faster?

As you've traded your youth

For access to what?

The right not to worry?

About something so trivial

As living once was?

I mean

Was it lived at all?

Aside from your want?

These are questions?

I doubt it

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Hours Ago, perfect flow

Hours ago
My hearts pace ached for you
My silent place

In mind away
From self alike
Who I knew so well

And all too well and now I see
That the only person
Keeping me from freedom was

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Through the doorway into meaning

What is it

To be truly pulled

From your body

Through mind

Into a presence

Previously unknown

Most suddenly though

Beneath door eaves

And between

The wooden entryway to

A most inviting scene

Where you be

And become

A most engaged

And yet present of being

And the song

Once you've sung

Has unrolled

There, in true involvement

You are singing

Free at last

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Status

I write now

As my mind has been

In so many places alive

As of late

That I fear not death

Or in some ways to die

But here

In this place of minor space and breath

I wait

For the words to beath

And speak their lungs into

A smokey existence new

And for that I wait

And for as much time take

I sit until such a speech is renewed

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Crackle me, a tanka

Crackle me like a

Rustic fire from a strike

Of my fathers match

Until winter memory's

Are warm and near like a flame

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Heavy haiku books

Books more often than

Become paperweights

In hand and in eyes

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Desire bursting, a tanka

When a desire

First takes hold and a small spark

Bursts into being

And then, most suddenly is

A warm light you should enjoy

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Chai Fires

Lines and expectations

Burn

In the hearts of some

As excitement and

Chai

Whereas others just yearn

For the quiet break

For the tide to turn

And for their future lives

Asleep

To wake

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Wish wish becoming

A wish is only as good

For the soul

As the soul is happy with

The result of said wish

Coming through the true mist

Of both time and allotment

Is

Generally what you will let it be

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Challenging dreams

We humans need

Hard things to do

To challenge ourselves

Through

Into next

And yet

We dream

Of time unending

And of responsibility faded

As if somehow that

Could be more rewarding

Than the pursuit of this

The wish

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In dreams, of dreams, and

A human dream
Which pulls from time
Is often of a place to settle down
And spend, and spend
Even more time abound
In such a place

Maybe when
You finally find it
You will
And won't so much as waste
The time in dreams
Anymore

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Friendships beyond, a tanka

Good friend always know
Even if feelings are far
And fading time tolls
Like a bell of reunion
Where again we can be found

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Love so bright

How can you write
About a sunset or first light
If your house is of glass
And everyday so
How your eyes ignite
With the same bright rays and rights

How?

How can you not
As you already have

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Other ships

One thing you wish for
Always is to see
A ship safe to harbor
And yet able to sail still

Be it away
Or towards

It should be
So

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This life unspent

Of all the silly places

And ways to spend

Your life in time

The most must be

This

In the way of which you

Do not desire

Are not rewarded for

And in no ways loved

(For doing so)

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Of instability

Help is not

Like water of flowing

Of drinking most sweet

When untouched

But then

When you just know how

To swim for yourself

You will

And when someone

More than they are willing to help themselves

Asks

You won't

Sometimes, once jumped

The jumper wants to drown

Do not die

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