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Samara Jan 2024
if you met me twenty years
down the line
how would you know
it was me after all that time?
Samara Jan 2024
i set a hundred-thousand birds free.
though all they know is captivity,
fresh air beneath their wings
teaches them once again
how to sing

Samara Jan 2024
oscillatory specks
dancing together
resting on the back of
that which can't be grasped
as wave nor particle
resounding gravity.

their delicate balance
and ballet offers
a stage in which
all is seemingly revealed
in its presence--
but,
nothing is ever
as it seems

so at the very least:
it is the ultimate carrier
weaving together
elucidation & illumination
highlighting the seams of
simple magnificence
that is contained within itself
Samara Jan 2024
threads of violins
shredded by violence
to stop the song of sirens
shrieking on the live wire.
it's twisted by air not felt
underwater
& captured by flash bulbs
that blind not deafen
- - -
suddenly we begin witnessing:
the tides are shifting
the tides are shifting

Samara Jan 2024
looking inward
a molten metal
of iron ore
smoldering rigid
covered by blackened ash
brightened by the wind

the only light i see
is when the embers glow
and the brighter it shows,
the faster it goes
but i'm okay with that
because it's just another
mark of the ego
Samara Dec 2023
embrace your mind
- only if it's kind
embrace your body
- but don't forget to be healthy
both are not you, only vessels
used for the service of others
who are none other than you
and you yourself divine
for the one is many
and many is one
- - -
so don't forget
to be yourself
only if yourself is right.
i'm confused :(
Samara Dec 2023
letting go of all words, unkind
just as one leaves
another weaves in
with nimble branches
threaded through the needle
and no thimble to protect.

wisdom is within
answers in plain sight
why then like cupid
was i painted blind?

i wish to see the unseen
to know what i seek
but my vision turned outward
keeps me unclean
my fingernails dirtied
by digging to unbury
roots of dancing leaves
on nimble branches
swaying toward every whim
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