Tag: journal
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[566] Long Distance Tanka
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Six hours and a plane I enter a foreign land Eyes dance, faceless crowd(until) She arrests me in her eyesI walk in a homeward land — First of all, I am so grateful for yesterday’s poem being selected by the NaPoWriMo website. You can read it by clicking here — NaPoWriMo prompt day 2 –…
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[565] Pilgrimage on The River
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The anger of the riverfront teeming with salesmensubsided in the rocking of the boatHere, salesmen were counting moneyHere, passengers were getting their money’s worthHere, I wanted a connection with the OneDidn’t everyone want that in their own way?For them, God expressed itself throughthe money for their next mealthe ritual of circling the God’s islandFor me,…
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[564] The Will To Not Inherit
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Bathed deep in fever dreams, he held a frameThat claimed to hold the whole of sun and sky.It alchemised a clock to travel back through shame,To mend what broke the first and only time.His thoughts, too frail to shoulder mortal strain,Were pressed beneath the wrath of distant gods.Anger once drove him out of his homeLove…
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[563] The Stranger Who Wore My Face
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I fed the fireplace until it learned my nameand what was left called itself freeI searched for truth in every conversationbut found only the weight of my own listeningmy ears rang with every falsity I’d hearduntil silence became the only tongue I trustedbut even silence has an expiry dateand solitude began knocking from withinI opened…
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[562] Cry Me Rivers from Another Galaxy
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Cry me riversstill waiting to be mapped in another galaxy.My emotions rehearse themselveson a worldly stage of false fallaciesWords drift in the ether, circling, circlingall of them unfinished,all of them searching.Suppressed stories of the childfind its way on the pages of timeThe myths of humankindrepeat in the salt of our tearsThe lost, the unnamed,their pain…
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[561] Long Day’s Journey Into Night
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I can’t wait to feel the sorrow.It came late, but I still follow.The light returns to whatever heavenit came from,And I turn my backto not feel the shine of love,to feel all the lack.How can it be truewhen lies are all I gather?How can it be truewhen I don’t seem to bother?I observe my gradual…
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[559] The Cost of Loving
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The fire of love dims in every roomwhere the cost of living drowns the heart.Thought does not countwhen the gift of action goes astray.Tranquillity is never enoughwhen the next step demands a chase.What is ever enough?I ask that question every day.I walk away from the trees,their branches reaching out like memory.I run from the missteps…
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[556] The Daylight Moon
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A gentle ghost drifts behind the clouds,waking from its slumber in the nightThe moon’s fable whispers an eternal taleof guarding the shoresfrom the ocean’s rageBut when the sun claims the stage,it slips behind the curtain,yet remains,a hidden storytellerfor those who choose to look,and to listen.It murmurs:“Everything you knowcarries another truth,quietly glowing,lingering at the edges of…
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[555] When Nature Speaks
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Today, I saw a tree have an accidentIts windshield broken by a falling objectYet it remains living amidst the progressToday, I saw a tree have an accidentIt didn’t move, it didn’t scream, it didn’t honkOnly stood, only rooted, only breathing.Today, I spoke to a treeIt invited me to restWhispering to hang in thereIt asked me…
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Smoke words every day. 