Category: Solitude
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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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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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The Boy – The Man (Audio)
I recall a memory that was etched like a holograph somewhere in me. It has popped up recently like Princess Leia did when Luke touched R2D2. It was dark. I was a little boy alone in a new house, a new room. I remember the boy trying to find his way in the dark of…
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Fishing in Bad Weather (Audio)
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in Creativity, Depth, Legacy Archive, meaning, Poetry, Self, Solitude, Spoken-Word, Stagnant, waiting, WritingEnergy No focus, scattered, diffused Where is the center now Black marks on white Symbols like bait dangled Over the choppy grey waters of me Hoping to coax a bite Enticing emotion to rise and strike Latch on to a word a sentence That I may draw out of the inky black depths Meaning, to…
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Frozen Spring (Something’s not Right) – Audio
This is the coldest Spring I’ve known The bright green of the new season breaks without me Pinks, yellows, whites, reds, purples, and blues, emerge all around They signal that Spring has come The bird-songs rise with the sun They call and woo one another in preparation for new life The sun is warm…