Category: poems
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Rearing against the sky’s spherical volume Fleeing the horizon Sometimes I feel it too This desire to escape the human mess All the overlapping voices Interwoven signals I’d rather not bear witness But I am bound to this Inhaling the same ancient molecules Waiting with heavy eyelids For everyone To be quiet Just for a…
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Yes you can. Can I kick it? Yes you can.” My six-year-old sings A Tribe Called Quest In the living room He stands 3 feet from the TV Playing Minecraft with resolute focus I am in awe of his spirit Yesterday we strolled the carnival At first the ride scared him The speed and increasing…
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Hidden in clusters of dark matter I can hear the universe whisper to me Sometimes it is scary And I feel like a lost child And then it is exhilarating I am surfing through the cosmic ocean I am no longer lost, I have found my true center Within Just beyond my reach. 2023sm
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Ed Where are you now Spread out before us In the cosmic wind The sound of your approach Lingers everywhere Keys jangling The cacophony of your laughter Heartbeat like a hummingbird Loss in the universal processor Your vacuum is felt daily Where are you now? With every breath, Every existential byte I miss your misanthropic…
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Daddy, the sun is up! My child chirps like a bird And I am blessed to reckon with a new day The light falls upon the contours of my form And I absorb the radiation with something between love and disdain Knowing that without the father star I would cease to be Yet longing for…
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Initials written in the sand, Our hearts carved from the stellar nurseries Of the early universe, Its first breath My eyes wandered over the stars In their little gravity wells And I forever searched Their infinite crossings Until I found you 2021sm
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I am here Listening Feeling Being Observing Accepting Releasing Swimming in gratitude I live Alive 2021sm
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Stillness Elusively hides In the cracks and crevices Lining the basin Of my mind’s boundless rim Resting in the center I calmly watch my thoughts Float away from me Like streams Some flow as water Gently nurturing the ground Others rise, tangled together, Coming apart in the open space above Formulating like starling murmurations Gracefully…
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A vapor trail Forming in the dark glow Of the room’s electric haze Bumps and knocks sound lightly In the night’s omnipotence The blood pulsates rhythmically Sleep is elusive in the vesper A dull ringing in the chest cavity The hallway illuminates Someone is always awake Is it I Lumbering toward morning Or are we…
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In the infinitesimal solar system within All these archetypes revolve around the igneous self So sure of its existence, its rightness in time and space, Burning brightly, raging in ultimate totality The anima and animus spin elegantly Along the orbit of their beautiful ring, Obscured by the shadow The shadow, dark though it may be…
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