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[569] Western Disturbances
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The mountain he left was greenEyes closed, he stills into the nightDissolving into earth, unseenHe connects to the light insideThe world he left, flowers mid-blooma sparrow mid-song, a leaf mid-fallHe felt it in the earth’s wombThe world rewriting its own lawsA cold breath rises on the summitBut his soul was out of his bodyThe temperature…
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[568] Hands that Juggle are the Hands that Feed
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When all the balls are up in the airthat is when the juggler chef feels freeHe knows each arc will landwhere the recipe intended,the kitchen and the act, one motionThe first ball in the air is customer satisfactionTime slows as the customer relishesa mouthful of spice he cannot stop eating. Joy.The juggler chef sees without…
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[567] The Art of Innocent Looking
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Adults trickled into the home They wave at me as my eyesdart through the last pages of the newspapershouting, “ball” at every round thing my pupils catchOne of them rolls a plastic ball at the ‘kid’ Everyone smiles, and I do too, and then I roll it back, because a broken thing is still broken no matter how…
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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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[560] Invisible Chords of Magical Music
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I saw a man who used to play the pianositting in the dark of a packed concert hall,His eyes narrowed at every passagethe way a judge studies an accused,wondering what he might have doneIf he were the one behind the keyboardand not this fellow in a shining black suit.I saw him again when the music…
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[558] the caterpillar will (won’t) become a butterfly
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My mistakes, puddlesreflect with restless worriesI bend to touch themfeeling unborn tomorrowsof all that I wasn’t today Wrote a tanka today to get into the rhythm of saying more with less. It’s a japanese short form poetry system with 5-7-5-7-7 syllable scheme. Give it a try! Art by Friedrich Hechelmann
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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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[554] The Tale of Perseverance
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Can you seize all of life If you push yourself all the way through?I have been trying to manifesta world that brews inside me every daya story that my vessel has been chosen forYet I feel defeated every dayWhen I believe the belief That I am not readyWho is really readyWhen they push the red…
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[551] how to find the power within
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Confusion jets its way into my veinsA task met with resistance through intellectIt fails to clear it So I ask the intuition in me to guideIt looks at imagesA broken finger, a scattered mindA soul of delusion, no peace insideA broken finger fails to writeBut it serves as a reminderAs the passion to make sense…
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