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into the wilderness i go
to live among the feral things
i sing to the moon
driven by instinct
no words serve this master
be as one with the wolves
sire twin pups
who shall one day
bring the world to heel
and knowing fire
let it follow in their wake
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#poetry #vss365
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inscribe my name
on a tablet of jade
tell me i will be great
tell me i will be sage
for in my mind’s eye
i see clouds cross the sky
shaped like Qilin
shaped like Buddha
and there is sunlight
and joy in my breath
and so many secrets
of birth, of death
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#poetry #vss365
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midnight moons
were my muse until you
a pale eucharist
upon a pewter midnight sea
forgiveness at a distance
step into the quiet
your briny name
swimming away to her glow
undersea ears thickened
listening for you -
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#vss365 #poetry
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playing Chopin
on the baby grand
nestled in a bay of windows
awash in apricity
hands lush and liquid
in D flat major
meting out delicacy
fingers alive with passion
a trickery for the ear
to wed beauty with complexity
an April Sunday
snow begins falling
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#poetry #vss365
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new day
new blessings
that’s what you told me
of destiny
that’s what you told me yesterday
when it was sunny
and warm
but morning performs its investiture
in frost
and i lie anointed
in fever’s grasp
alone
with a broken furnace
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#poetry #vss365
💚
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the sea is too riled today
and i cannot see my reflection
only feel its pull
on the sand beneath my feet
when the waves recede
am i pretty?
hair unkempt in the breeze
the gulls avoid me
seafoam gathers on the rocks
and i lie down in it
hoping to get clean
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#poetry #vss365
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i’m not sure what you expected
from me –
some sort of miracle?
i never had the strength
to roll back the stone
to emerge from that grave
cerements clinging damp
all the while
you standing sentry
hammer still dripping with blood
so certain
of your own salvation
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#poetry #vss365
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i’m not sure what you expected
from me –
some sort of miracle?
i never had the strength
to roll back the stone
to emerge from that grave
cerements clinging damp
all the while
you standing sentry
hammer still dripping with blood
so certain
of your own salvation
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#poetry #vss365
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i try to listen
[i really do]
but you often
take so long to
get to the point
and the world is full of sounds -
traffic
and bees
and the wind through the trees
i mean,
words have their place
i get it
just maybe less
than you’d imagine
[at least for me]
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#vss365 #poetry
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after you,
i knew the true nature
of suffering
what it means
to be alone, absent
meaning
or purpose
thoughts can be
insidious things -
when you roll a boulder
up a hill
only to watch it
roll back down again
a loop with no end -
always thinking
always thinking
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#vss365 #poetry
🥂🙏🏻🌺🌹🌺🙏🏻🥂
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the lushness
of your scent -
i taste your proximity
an unseen trail
of apricot
and almond
i'm reminded
of oleander under
a shadowed tower
the sea breeze
binds its ache to me,
but the words delay
only letters remain -
malformed and failing
to describe love
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#vss365 #poetry
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your suitcase packed thick
bursting in fullness
rain gathers in puddles
on the sidewalk
outside the doorway
i always found it strange
you painted the door
so black
so empty
and how easily
i can become the water
in those puddles
dragging your wheels
through me
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#poetry #vss365
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i promised to follow you
to the ends of the earth
but now that i’m here,
i’ve learned in fact it's flat
& all my long-held
notions of ‘round’
have fallen over its edge
my heart sinks
like the sea spills
a waterfall into an abyss
absent its plunge pool's echo
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#poetry #vss365
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there is beauty in silence
a stillness before the sun
mounts its horizon
the quiet whispers
in reeds ‘long the river
spirit-secret gossip
the breath held
as dew drops plop
from flower to grass blade,
darkness has its own voice
and it sings me
away from the dawn
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#poetry #vss365
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memory is a cruel master –
and visions of the mind
remain unreliable
the cost -
a penance for the purgation
of my sins
i hear a goddess bathing
know only shame
i touch a father’s blood
and feel deceived
forever blind -
i crave that wet of your lips
once more
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#poetry #vss365
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love-broke
[and a bit bereft]
i have left all
material things
behind
the interest
i have gained
in the bank of “you”
is not
[was never, turns out]
enough
i have cashed out
all deposits
liquidated my assets
and burned
that fucking bank
to the ground.
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#poetry #vss365
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my body desecrated
tattooed in your script
i am tainted
by the mark of Cain
Eden has burned,
its gates have sealed
love is an obsession
isn’t it, my love?
we kill for it again and again -
blood is sacrifice
blood is ink
scored in my flesh,
such wanton prayers
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#vss365 #poetry
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in this graveyard of the heart
the night creatures howl
i am at once
the fog creeping
between our headstones
the moss feeding
in your rain-pitted epitaph
and i am dying, once more,
in your arms
whispering to the silence
aching for your kiss
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#vss365 #poetry
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it’s raining on Easter,
and i’m wondering what to do with
so much gray
we no longer celebrate
resurrection, not the way
we used to
every day,
we muddy our faith
with the pain of living
god’s gored hand
that once carried me feels
far less gentle
and farther away
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#poetry #vss365
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since you left me
i exist outside of time
a dustmote dissolving in sunlight
slowly losing mass
i am a broken hourglass
you left beside the board
spilling its sand
onto a surface
without meaning
yet the game persists
and i am left awaiting
the mercy of a dustbin
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#poetry #vss365
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nature breathes
a sigh, a release
shudders off the burden
of nurture
seas steam
mountains crumble
cities burn
i seek shelter
in her aftermath
naked outside the garden
stones
in concentric rings...
may they guide me east
to you
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#poetry #vss365
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here in this place
where sea meets land,
high in the clouds,
i stand on the edge -
searching
final paper
final pen
in hand
the kittiwakes
call my name, searching,
asking me to fly,
but i am a poet
i am a wingless thing
and the
sea sounds
so pretty
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#vss365 #poetry
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i am a virus,
an invasive species
made to survive
by taking -
Agent Smith ordained me.
i overtake your DNA,
rewrite you in my image,
feed you to my need.
as the world of man falls,
i will never hunger less,
just proceed
to take more,
give nothing back.
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#vss365 #poetry
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i knew you once,
the last star of morning
singular in your piercing
sapphire stare
below you, the shadows
gathered in their whispers
above you,
only the stars of god
exalted you
and i was left breathless,
afraid your gaze
might find me
so alone
and unworthy
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#poetry #vss365
Thank you!! 🙏🏻 🍷
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i was born
forged from clay
spellbound
imbued by spirit
commanded to obey
no true heart
to feel love or remorse
to know the regret
of an ending
when i never knew
how i began
just a was,
and a was not,
a conduct unbecoming
something, yet
nothing, all at once.
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#poetry #vss365
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fog thick along the lakeshore
my hands peel it off,
cotton-candy cloy,
fireflies lie in wait, moving,
sugar cookie dew, sticky
upon my lips, lick them
slow, with purpose
waves lap on stones,
wee sprites hide from me
in the reeds, laughing,
wreathed in oleander.
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#poetry #vss365
