Yearly Archives: 2013

Inspired by those inspired by those inspired

A broken heart is in want of that one healing treasure, like a frenzied moth to die in the candle flame. There is a painful longing in both – heart and moth – for the same return. Let us tread … Continue reading

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The Baobab

All are in repose. as a reddening sun sinks melodiously drowning into a molten horizon. My heart gasps in harmony, “Take me with you” before our time is gone, I’ve not the strength to wait till dawn Long and low … Continue reading

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A Hundred Ways

A hundred ways to remember the nameless, stand between the seeker and that One never to forget. Ninety-nine abandoned attributes linger in the faint attar of imbued nostalgia, wrenched in the twist of the implacable iron wood. The variegated visage … Continue reading

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worthy to love

When you know yourself – I mean truly know the bone and sinew holding you upright in the mirror. From felted creases along folded chits of memory to the dogeared pages of emotional reminders – when your margins are filled … Continue reading

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Chanced to Meet a Ghost Writer

I chanced to meet a ghost writer at my door, her transportation failed just down the road A sojourning doppelgänger of sorts …an elusive reflection who in need of a tow. Transmuting words to wine, We both sip time to … Continue reading

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Overland: Fight the Poet, Love the Master

Morning brings a clearer visionas the sun makes its assentAnd dwells in the blueBefore it’s journey overland.Under one God,Our small animationsapproximate gesturesof lives arrangedby a benevolent hand.How gentle their hearts beatthat resound overland.Charged with the blessingFor every last man.That rage … Continue reading

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Poems in Pieces

(April 23, 2013) The explosion, the cloud, the light. Love is an explosion…we are shrapnel. I am able to see so clearly… those nimble stonemasons who drive the cold steel pitons into the hewn splendid cracks of my being, so … Continue reading

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Turning out the beasts

I remember turning my horses out to pasture…and they’d light out to the furthest corners as fast as milkweed fairies on the wind.    These beasts of burden are stubborn like my heart is resolved at times.  But so beautiful to … Continue reading

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