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Do you remember we swapped toys
when we were five
Do you remember we swapped promises
when we were ten
Do you remember we swapped kisses
at fifteen
Do you remember we swapped dreams
when we were twenty
Do you remember we swapped tears
at twenty five
Do you remember we swapped lovers
when we were thirty
Do you remember we swapped lives
at thirty five
Do you remember we swapped lies
at forty
Do you remember we swapped partners
at forty five
Do you remember we swapped kids
at fifty
Do you remember we swapped dreams
at fifty five
Do you remember you swapped life
when you were sixty .
 Sep 2021 pilgrims
Dan Hess
Rise
 Sep 2021 pilgrims
Dan Hess
Do you hear every wind-song, 

oh great purveyor of grace?

Purloiner of haste, do you hear my cry?
As I am wont to want for freedom.



Steal away my woes.

My will-wept, gone; my hardened heart,

in songs that scatter on to windswept glory.



Overturning eyes that glint, in sunlight’s glow 

from clouds above, to clouds below;

a view I’ve only found in hovering.



When tucked beneath a shroud of sleep

in lifetimes spent in lands of dreams,

untethered from my destiny, I see.



With each word spoken, 

tone hummed, vow broken -

with every heart that’s shattered open:

an eternal resonance, awoken

to the eminence of the wind.


i listen
to the chorus of the trees
the buzzing of the breeze
when i should rise before the sun
in early morning liminality

yellow candle
as i wait for daybreak
soothe the mind, unwind
embrace the grace awaiting
gratitude, this day, in waking

recently
days slip away with a hasty pace
time passes by before my eyes
but all just seems a waste

when choice is fading spirit
ebbing, waning light in palms outstretched
when i am begging to grasp the stars,
but nothing yet
i must remember i am blessed

to rise before the sun
and greet galaxies
and be undone in thoughts of space
as days slip by with a hasty pace
and i have time to waste

embrace the grace awaiting
gratitude this day in waking
seeing time pass by my mind
not truly dissipating

co-creating binds
of time with mind
energy with memory,
transpiring into being

this chorus of the trees,
the universe, in unison, singing
dimensions overarching, resonating
aligning everything, as One;
ubiquitous and vibrating
 Jul 2021 pilgrims
Dan Hess
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 Jul 2021 pilgrims
Dan Hess
i’ve been feeling so utterly human
this vessel of my heart is not wont to bursting
but the pressure in my chest
is begging
for my eyes to acquiesce

i am not wont to bursting
but these emotions consume me
never have they been
so pronounced in their intensity

its confusing being human
but flesh is feeling
in such concept, hovering
in the mind’s eye
never to be described

yet i feel the authenticity in it
songs sung by hearts strung along
incorrigible currents, tempting fate’s face
these masters of reality conceiving

breathing underwater
to be the salt of the sea
one thing, dissolving in amalgam
flotsam of the ship of theseus

i am not wont to grounding
drowning in my grave
alive, and growing into
plains of grass, and wild,
unkempt meadows

ever transpiring
redefining mind
in passing by
am I
a thing at all?

not disposed to being human
my upheaval is believing in myself
yet
aching with the graves of bygone love

of love of self
in which I mourn
my own death
 Jul 2021 pilgrims
Gulishta
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 Jul 2021 pilgrims
Gulishta
We never truly move on
     We just learn to hide it a little better..
Cause some wounds are on our soul
      That changes the shape of us.
Don’t play
with the real people
in your life
they really are
rare
I’m not a saint
not quite good enough
I’m not a sinner
not quite bold enough
yet
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