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A Beautiful World Turns Round Again
A beautiful world turns round again / A simple man must meet his end / A bright new baby is born anew
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Mar 25, 2012
A Bone Breaks
A bone breaks but the body stays whole. / A heart breaks for another but their bond / remains whole.
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Mar 25, 2012
A Log on the River
A log on the river / Time keeps on flowing / The past comes quicker
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Mar 25, 2012
Ants Scurrying Across the Floor
Ants crawl across this floor we’ve fallen on before / Crawling away from painful light meant for death / It takes time and height to view this bitter facsimile
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Jul 18, 2012
Common Man's Plight
A child without water, / a rich man drinks his coffee. / A father unable to provide,
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Mar 25, 2012
Delirelations/ Revelirium
I wish to return to the days long completed / when the strangest fantasies lived only in our dreams. / Now there is no more fantasy within the lidded eye.
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Apr 26, 2012
Fire in the Soul, Friend in the Heart
I’ve faced the pinnacles of darkness / and the depths of Illumination; / but the faces that kept my sight
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May 22, 2012
Flares from a Dying Sun
Stars shine on in a night sky so black / you can see the truth. / What is that light but an interruption
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Mar 25, 2012
Hungry Like The Wolfe
No creation of merit can be created / without first digesting / the written-down genius
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Apr 4, 2013
I See
I see a face staring through the pixels and plastic, / a face I recognize, even as I search it for familiarity. / It is a face of a starving child about to die
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Apr 17, 2012
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