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By the edge of the Tagus, the river passes unhurried, as if it knew its end. I sit by the window. The waters meet and carry me away. Time is not chased. It flows. Days, minutes on an unbroken thread. Each thing at its own rhythm. The world continues. I learn not to interrupt. Without urgency. Without fear. I observe what yields, what remains. And then, almost without sound, we change. I light a cigarette. The flame hesitates. So do I.
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Apr 11
Apr 11, 2026 at 9:33 AM UTC
The Flame Hesitates
Only when the guises of expectation are gone Was I able to meet this tinge of ineffable confidant Often ambushing behind the tune from days to places Where self-gaze sails across something in and of itself. Over the nuvole flies men in chaos off meaning loss Wafted down detritus of love in strikes of turmoil. Omens scudded before stunned, defying gravity With nuanced remembrance of odor antidotes Orienting my soul in shivering flux, astringent enough When silence is not heard, nor eyes are met. Words de-surfaced, drowning me dizzy.
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Sep 27, 2025
Sep 27, 2025 at 10:16 AM UTC
Oasis of likE-mindEd souls
a bloom not I sniff on its wax yet soap in its name. Is chime an echo shuttling between shores clenched and surfs wrinkled? Forthcoming. Impending. Violating. Could thou help me to say this? that I was in out of my depth. Over-night granola, Mixed-berry fizz, Planet-Traveler hues. Could thou let me shelve vacancy? that I’d be sobbing for its mess. Signature Choco cake named here sole with latte all around globe some taste brewed here sole. How hot and heavy and hazy this existence savors. But— there is Thank you, the simple words that turns us into lamplighters who walk each other home, through the night never seems to end fluxing, always, always. after all. before all. A beam of apathy. Hithernay I lapse in the liquid fear of drifting afar from all flowed through me, a terrifying truth that strikes, falters, and aches. On shaft of daylight I look fine but look behind my eyes, everything is new until it’s old. An osmosis of remembrance wafts across the lake frozen I gazed tears streaming down its face and was told: every metamorphosis a co-passenger brought you continues the voyage with you on behalf of him. Would I get over it? Anon I find the galactic city model of the mind too cold to defy as I expend three minutes hesitating shall I do it or not that could be done within the three minutes so it’s left undone, with an ongoing groan. I yearn for rationality is too spiny and messy and illusory like a broadcast of self-deed that never ever pitch a well guess. But— nothing come decipherable until I seek to return with hands empty of dictions indecipherable. I love the debris of word that I don’t understand, that I build brick by brick. Euphoria stumbles in what is and what isn’t here. Chimeric. This time, at ease I walk into the place scrawled by unfamiliarity of all kinds, giddy, amorphous, variegated, not without my muse. Hovering, the Wayfinder exhales an attuning overture, an astringent taste of cacophony. “Free is the feeling they can’t take from thee.” a rustle not I shivered in yet took a leap towards. Through the bullet-spiked walls of unseen wars analogy hums a thousand suns as warriors bury a thousand letters.
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Sep 25, 2025
Sep 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM UTC
Blue Wind Chime
a bloom not I sniff on its wax yet soap in its name. Is chime an echo shuttling between shores clenched and surfs wrinkled? Forthcoming. Impending. Violating. Could thou help me to say this? that I was in out of my depth. Over-night granola, Mixed-berry fizz, Planet-Traveler hues. Could thou let me shelve vacancy? that I’d be sobbing for its mess. Signature Choco cake named here sole with latte all around globe some taste brewed here sole. How hot and heavy and hazy this existence savors. But— there is Thank you, the simple words that turns us into lamplighters who walk each other home, through the night never seems to end fluxing, always, always. after all. before all. A beam of apathy. Hithernay I lapse in the liquid fear of drifting afar from all flowed through me, a terrifying truth that strikes, falters, and aches. On shaft of daylight I look fine but look behind my eyes, everything is new until it’s old. An osmosis of remembrance wafts across the lake frozen I gazed tears streaming down its face and was told: every metamorphosis a co-passenger brought you continues the voyage with you on behalf of him. Would I get over it? Anon I find the galactic city model of the mind too cold to defy as I expend three minutes hesitating shall I do it or not that could be done within the three minutes so it’s left undone, with an ongoing groan. I yearn for rationality is too spiny and messy and illusory like a broadcast of self-deed that never ever pitch a well guess. But— nothing come decipherable until I seek to return with hands empty of dictions indecipherable. I love the debris of word that I don’t understand, that I build brick by brick. Euphoria stumbles in what is and what isn’t here. Chimeric. This time, at ease I walk into the place scrawled by unfamiliarity of all kinds, giddy, amorphous, variegated, not without my muse. Hovering, the Wayfinder exhales an attuning overture, an astringent taste of cacophony. “Free is the feeling they can’t take from thee.” a rustle not I shivered in yet took a leap towards. Through the bullet-spiked walls of unseen wars analogy hums a thousand suns as warriors bury a thousand letters.
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flux. a word whose very sound connotes its meaning, a sloshing state of change a liquid moment, for we solids, of bone and flesh, though we may be islands of stolidity, entrenched, focused, organized, when the surround sounds of change are all about you too are fluxed the serenity of splendid isolation is not an impervious shell, close eyes, ears, nostrils, mouth these liquid times we abode, inescapable from the roller coaster of crashing storms of our environment try as I might, cannot recede into a white sealed envelipe, cannot secede from the froth of current events, in the age of no distances, and the rotational revolution of but one lever, a single beating wing can disrupt the the supply and communication channels of our normative existential machinations let me retreat unto my poetry trance, but that choice is currently unavailable be wary of the calm of routine, we live in a time of the olympics of change, and we cannot walk on water, nor tread forever flux. the liquidity curse of our ever curving intersections
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Jun 9, 2025
Jun 9, 2025 at 11:57 PM UTC
A Liquid Moment
the present forever shifts yet remains constant claiming and re-claiming us a sequence of stillnesses flux and fixity finite and infinite
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May 17, 2020
May 17, 2020 at 11:00 PM UTC
Flux and Fixity
A wave implodes, impaled upon impassive rocks... this evening the thunder of the sea is a wild music filling my ear... you are leaving and the ungrieving winds demur: telling me that nothing returns as it was before, here where you have left no mark upon this dark Heraclitean shore. Heraclitus said we can't step in the same river twice, because it won't be the same river and we won't be the same either. Everything is in a constant state of flux, thus "nothing returns / as it was before." Lovers who part will not be the same people if they reunite later.
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Feb 22, 2020
Feb 22, 2020 at 9:19 PM UTC
Nothing Returns
As I wait In the night's cold The echoes of rain long gone I fall back Sweet reactions And sweet smiles Evoked by the idiosyncrasies of life, All genuine Whilst my heart Congeals the idiosyncratic nature of My exterior With my interior. Duality, A concept irrevocable. In it's amalgamation, The force of its flux Is unsettling. And in my unsettled ease Where does that leave me?
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May 27, 2019
May 27, 2019 at 9:23 AM UTC
Congealing flux
See how the colours shift - with each fractional adjustment I'm met with a 360 revolution emblazoned horizon to horizon a panchromatic world of beauty in a constant state of flux, with variations, both major and minor, circling round  with each marginal movement of my creator's hand.
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Nov 16, 2017
Nov 16, 2017 at 6:05 PM UTC
Kaleidoscope
Dawn of change It is always so Endless dusks and tides Breaking against star-foam. The law of all-things We long to forget Is that everything passes Time devours all And humble humanity Tiny upon the floating rock Is no different To the dust and gas Of deep space. We may quail At our transient destiny We may shudder At our fleeting fate We may lament Our lack of infinity But to do so would be To stain the sacred present And forget the true nature Of you, of us, of her, of me.
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Feb 26, 2017
Feb 26, 2017 at 3:16 AM UTC
Dawn of Change
Were you given a star at school for good work? a smiley face, very good or well done was a perk I took all of these smiley faces into my soul guaranteed for life to sustain my future role Remember how art caught you out - I made a mess and yet disaster was suddenly made good - more or less now, woodwork led me to a great cutting edge being allowed to take home my work was a privilege metalwork taught me that flux was softer than butter the words that arose within me - if only I could utter mathematics made me figure things out - nothing I would lack but when the master saw my red socks - he said: 'Get to the back.' Then there was English - the best language to swear in, such great enlightenment and depth will never come again
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Apr 21, 2016
Apr 21, 2016 at 3:54 PM UTC
EMERGING TALENT
White lotus, never let you forget this you, I, or any other does not exist outside the fiction cosmos weaves; all of us add color to it each minute. പ്രപഞ്ചം ഒരുകൽപ്പിതകഥ വെണ്‍ താമരേ, ഇത് സ്വയം മറക്കാനനുവദിക്കായ്ക! നീയും ഞാനുമെന്നല്ല, എല്ലാമെല്ലാം പ്രപഞ്ചം നെയ്തെടുക്കും കഥയല്ലാതെ മറ്റൊന്നല്ല! അനു മാത്രം ആ കഥയ്ക്ക് നിറം ചേർപ്പവരാണ് നാം ! (Translated to Malayalam)
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Mar 6, 2015
Mar 6, 2015 at 10:01 PM UTC
Cosmic fiction