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don't listen to them
why don’t you throw off your burdens? / take a load off / rest your weary shoulders
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Oct 27, 2016
sun beams across a grey-yellow sky
It’s all turning out / life feels real again / the storm was
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Apr 16, 2016
marble tomb
the soul wells with poetic thoughts / but the mind no longer knows poetic word / and the fingers no longer have poetic purpose
9
Jul 14, 2015
sinking
it was pointless to love / like the captain of a drowning vessel / still turning hard to starboard
5
Jun 28, 2015
talked down
as it turned out, / I was at the edge because / I thought there was no one
7
Apr 1, 2015
wee morning song
coming out of sickness like a phoenix / (awkward, damaged, but passionately / aflame with the chances of a new life),
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Feb 18, 2015
poem about god
god, what a relief it was / to find out he wasn’t real / after all
7
Jan 14, 2015
worship at the new church
pray in a quiet, proud voice / for a better year this time / pray each day
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Jan 14, 2015
fade
too proud to quit / too proud to improve / the noble poet died
5
Dec 14, 2014
breathing with you
to paraphrase a much wiser soul, / “we are a part of the universe / grown self-aware”
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Nov 9, 2014
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