Category: Poetry
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poem 39
There is, I hear, a difference of opinion On the way that a poem, it should be written– Whether with random lines of nonsense-making, Or with metered lines of rhythm and rhyming, Or with unrhymed lines that adhere to a meter, Or with a sensible story that tells the reader Something meaningful and useful for…
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poem 38
Riding upon the wings of time with the ages of history in hand, The silent stealth rider of the heavens arises to gird on the fleshly souls of all man. The passage of horse-ridden rider is as seamless as the flow of the course of the river which runs Through mountains and valleys and cities…
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poem 37
The waiting room in life—No matter where you go—Is the worst sort of placeTo be, and the serviceAlways sucks the lifeOut of your soul likeNothing else ever could.You might try to meditateOr read a stupid book,But the goddam TV,Playing just loud enoughSo you can’t hear yourBreath or silence yourThoughts, is cloudingYour mind with worthlessInformation you…
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poem 36
The story must be told–to me, That I might relay it faithfully, Lest I should write vain fantasies. About a realm I cannot see, But only touch with pen and ink, And with each keyboard stroke That strikes upon the document. The marks these make upon the page, Wherein the story that must be told…
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poem 33
Thirty-three years I have lived.Thirty-three years I have died.In sum-total, thirty-three have I. What of the past, which is past?What of the present, which only lasts?And of the future, all but forecasts? I have been born and I have died.In many endeavors, I have tried.In sum-total, these alone have I. The past is taunting, where…
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poem 32
When I can’t think of anything to write. Mindless. Thoughtless. Wordless. Empty. Blank. Slate. The muse within me. Is dead. Deceased. And unmoving. I cannot write. A word. Nor scribe. Even a letter. Upon the script of time. For of nothing comes. Nothing. And I am nothing. As is the muse. Within. Me
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poem 31
Throw away, cast off all caution– Not to the wind but to light waves, Whereon rides the overriding Almighty one of all the days: The sun high in its course upon The star-ridden path of heaven. For as the sun without a care Bares its brilliance ‘cross dark skies, Myriad, numberless to count, So might…
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poem 30
Do not write much of your languishing soul That lies deep within the virulent throes Of anguished weeping and bitter sorrows, For the Age comes when all will be made whole And what was once only found to be nights Has been made anew in recreation By holy hands with a touch that ignites Regeneration…