Title: Beautiful dreamer Poem: Are you the soil that nourishes or the bee that pollinates? Are you the rain that saturates or the sun that gives life? Are you the gentle hand that plucks the weeds? If I am a flower, are you the foot that tramples? Or the storm that lays waste? Author: @loudthoughts_7
"The Measure of Exit" Suddenly there is a deep inhalation, and we're caught in it, brought out from under the sagging, from puny brine flake, and we're going all the way, pulled beyond the porchlight, beyond gray city crag as hovers, beyond wasted time, going far weightless until our kind are told, without any basis, to keep moving, but not stopping there, ourselves inhaling now, because when people like us make room for themselves it demands liberating into flutter surfaces those that came before, those that fell into first light, saw the day, and realized too late that the self, in its sum apart, in its clear thundering mile high arch, is composed only in the passing, only in the moment one leaves a place untouched.
Bravo Derek Thomas Dew!
"The Measure of Exit" is in the new issue of Anti-Heroine Chic!! It's up on their website #poetry
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I hope to get back to poetry soonish. Poetry, like my other (set aside) fiction requires space on my plate. Lately, with the dumpster fires in the U.S., there's not been much space or focus ability in my brain. But I like doing the micro poems here, so 🤞
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All the energy once flowing
Now sapped into the gray.
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The words crowd in my head
Frantic, spinning, unrelated.
Thus works my brain.
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A moment's sleep
For a night awake.
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Stolen
Colonized
Beaten
Lost
Missing
The children of the land
Tears of loss.
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I need some color
In my life
Redyed.
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Tired
Lost
Drowning
Too much chaos
Drains strength
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Sorry folks, struggling tonight.
Rapture
The one day I could be gone
Sadly still here.
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Seeking the ways of my ancestors
Buried beneath the years
Hidden by those who fear
The fire and wisdom of Ancients.
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Evening peace
Soft music
Ease the soul
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There is no failure
Mistakes teach
Just listen.
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Art dripping from fingertips
My head overthinking.
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Been down so long
Getting back up is its own fight.
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Drips, drops
Tiny moments
Of life
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Age creeping in
Things forgotten
Shaking fingers
The soul slipping
Despite clinging spirit
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My poetry silenced
In busy days
Other art sustains me
For now.
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Losing self in art
Easing pain and an anxious heart
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The thread is thin
Our future a question
Hope scattered
But still beating
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Blissful snuggles
Purrs claim the day.
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Before the dawn
The hush gives way
To the highway's
Early rush.
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Age in these bones
The skin weathered
Aches earned through time
Wisdom colored by circumstance
Unseen by the young
In this moment.
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Life is heavy
Love lifts the heart.
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Falls, drips,
Caressing skin,
Sinking deep.
Fated to overcast skies,
Here a moment,
Moved in gusts,
Returning on new winds.
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The world is exhausting.
Racism pricks my skin;
Worry clouds my mind.
I have no value to capitalism.
How long before I just have no value?
If not for those who love me,
The weight so heavy
Would be my end.
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Easing away from
The musts in my art
To find freedom
In creativity.
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Of course it rained
After water was given
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Long day
Tired bones
Sweet treat
Rewards
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