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Month: October 2018

  • Posted on October 29, 2018
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October 2018, Haiku

Puffy Clouds, fall leaves
Today, awash in beauty
Stomach pits remain

Posted in Poetry Tagged beauty, compassion, Gratitude, Hope, Nature, Poetry
  • Posted on October 24, 2018
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Sleeplessness (A Cloudy Brew)

Overflowing opening lines
Spill a cloudy brew.
Forgotten. Unwritten.

Victimized by gravity
Diving for fragments
The urgency arm flails

Grasping at nothing
Or a shimmering mask
Dunked into the bleak

Of elusive words
In hazy patterns
Screaming for attention.

A roar of lucidity
Without memory
Or manuscript

Posted in Dreams, Fantasy, Memory, Poetry, Sleep Tagged Memory, Poetry, Sleep, Sleeplessness
  • Posted on October 22, 2018October 22, 2018
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Refugees, A Haiku

Escape takes courage.

Daunting hardship. Persistence.

More empathy please.

Posted in Poetry Tagged compassion, decency, Haiku, Immigrants, Listen, Patriotism
  • Posted on October 4, 2018October 7, 2018
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Breaking

Arrogance expects smooth sailing
And a fracture begins with a hair-line crack
Things sometimes just break

An abrupt cataclysmic explosion
Crashing. Crumbling. Crushing.
Things sometimes just break

Still, the deer graze the grass at dawn
And we welcome the next beginning
Things sometimes just break

Posted in decency, Dreams, Our country, Patriotism, Poetry
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