Category: Poetry
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Change the world? (Audio)
I have decided I no longer want to change the world I have failed utterly at that My powers spent in futile efforts I am weak I am so tired I can only focus on what is right in font of me The huge problems can no longer even hold my attention But even if…
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Ashes (Audio)
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Silence – Seething – Stillness Ashes – Grey and black fill the throat, choking off life. Only barren, sterile, ache fills the chest. The exquisite has abandoned me somewhere between pleasure and pain. Now only numb, dull, persistent ache. It is dumb, with no voice, no purpose. Pain with no purpose is a cruel…
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Tenderness and the Real (Audio)
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Tenderness hidden. Concealed behind the humor, the talent, the success. Those who know sometimes betray. Sometimes ignorantly. Sometimes with a will. Tenderness hidden. The betrayal steals life. But it can also give it. Illusions shattered. Only the Real will survive. Tenderness hidden. Now uncovered. Raw, burning, new-born. Atmosphere sears new lungs. Life demands pain.…
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The Second Half (Audio)
I have skills I have intelligence I have proven courage I am creative and imaginative I have an easy way with people I am moderately attractive I am strong in action I have access to resources I am healthy I have led I have followed I am experienced Yet I sit I am not…
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Soap Bubbles on the Wind (Audio)
How can I form the words? What shape would they take? Like a child I repeat the words of others. I have no words of my own to capture and hold the content of my heart. Like soap bubbles on the wind my thoughts emerge and float and burst. They have dimension, glisten in the…