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the path is frequented,
with thunderous footfall,
each step,
dramatic,
and unique,
a brand new journey,
into the known,
living a life,
of your creation,
thats been lived before.

there's nothing significant,
in your footfall,
each step's a drop in an ocean,
it's a welltrodden path,
you walk upon,
living a life,
devoid of chance,
devoid of real impact.

kid yourself you matter,
with crashing footfall,
each step is echoed by steps,
of others on the journey,
marching in time,
living a life,
that forms a story,
with no hidden ending.

with your fate established,
your every footfall,
each step,
dramatic,
fearful,
don't deny the journey,
its chance to impart,
living in life,
your joy and your pain,
your fear and your hope,
your smiles, your tears,
your rage, your calm,
your personalities,
you've never lived them before.
david jm Aug 2014
Anxious for my
Afternoon embalming.
Flushed free,
Laying down the masonry
Of trees yet
To be.

I must confess I want a jack and ginger.

My favorite manieur de mots,
Your offspring making
Silk of my spit.
Two book wormholes,
Circumventing travel,
Welding my smoggy sand castle
To the grey island you anchor.
Would you care to
Fatten up Elpis
With me?
For my pen friend.
Qualyxian Quest Dec 2022
Yo espero
At least sometimes
And yo despair

I'm gonna fade away
Like I was never there

Snowfall Shunyata
Kyoto. County fair.

Ambiguity
Do the deed and dare.

          Batflare.
Qualyxian Quest Feb 2023
Walnut Heights, Ohio
Huffy 57
Sacramento, California
Mr. Blazona. Kevin.

I still miss Mark
Ernest Thomas. Jerrod Pope.
Read American Cosmic
Watched in the theater Nope

I play the long term game
I will not be goaded
Strike when strike you may
Prepared, locked, and loaded

Driving Q to work
And where he can play Magic
Stranger Than Fiction is comic
The Dark Knight is tragic

                      Elpis.
Qualyxian Quest Dec 2021
Today we talk of elpis
Hopes false and true
I say thing with feathers
I say I love you

The waitress's name is Taylor
Surely see her soon
Honors world history
Dr. Chong Kun Yoon

Hope but not forever
Hopeful Andy Dove
Hope for the hopeless
Faith, hope, and love

Silence in the morning
In the silent night
Silent Bangkok monk
Silently we fight

             Ain't right.
Qualyxian Quest Apr 2023
So the docs say I have an anxiety disorder
Just cannot relax
Hope at my grandma's house
Hope at Uncle Jack's

I hope my children don't get it
Hope to die in peace
Would like to see Istanbul
More than Ancient Greece

Basketball tonight
Hotel room is quiet
He and I and hoopin'
Astronauts will fly it

Exoplanets spin
Astronomers find water
Big Fish swims away
Nobody ever caught her

                 Blue!
Bodowzski Jul 2023
Head full of hope like Elpis' pocket,
Gracefulness of a newborn pegasus.
Guarding the gate to her heart like Cerberus
While bearing the burden that is Atlas',
She steeled her resolve,
And forged her dreams, Hephaestus.
Qualyxian Quest Apr 2023
I do have coincidences
But I have no direct path to God
The psychiatrist says it's nothing
Yo soy solo Todd

I like minarets
Cathedrals
Zen Centers
Libraries

I watch movies alone
Call my sons
Play basketball
****.

Detroit's Fox Theater
Taipei 101
MoPop
Lemonade. Strawberries.

           Susan. Judi. Alex.

                    (hope)
Qualyxian Quest Oct 2023
.......the little way.....
out of the limelight
          patience
Qualyxian Quest Oct 2023
It's a horror story world
But hope breaks open closed
Every Rose Has Its Thorn
I was hungry. Of course I posed.

Try to do the best I can
Mind on Life of Pi
Working again today
The silent Buddha is Thai

I hope I rest in peace
No man knows the hour
Homeless black man dies in Seattle
Sign says: Rest in Power.

Grey day blues
Gentleman's October
Not my country right or wrong
That's like my mother drunk or sober

                         slowly ...
Qualyxian Quest Dec 2023
I wish I wasn't bipolar
I hope and pray my boys don't get it
Sleep till 4
Heartbreak? Forget it.

My boys are my hope
Christmas comes round once more
A couple presents, hope
Forgotten lore

             DC to Baltimore
Qualyxian Quest Jun 2020
How to go on
With no real hope.

Do I know?
Nope.

But I still do like the Pope.
Qualyxian Quest Dec 2022
Hope is given only for the hopeless
Benjamin in Spain
Scholem in Jerusalem
Winslow Homer in Prouts Neck, Maine

Elpis was a curse
Pero, yo espero in the night
I reach out to Alex
Like Sor Juana - mystic flight

Exoplanets spin
Extrasolar water
Tried to show her truths
Tried to truly taught her

Fatherhood is quiet
A little basketball
Please courage unto the end
All Walls Fall

              El Salvador!
Qualyxian Quest Jul 2023
Siena Cathedral
Black and White
Meister Eckhart
Not Sein und Zeit

Her voice is kind
Calls me Todd
I search and search
Can't find God

Swimming pools
Charcuterie board
Johnny Cash
Praise the Lord

Will I die alone?
Near my sons?
Rolling Stone
Lucky ones

                   Elpis
Qualyxian Quest Apr 2023
Lost in the rain in Juarez
And it's Easter time too
Family in Jupiter, Florida
Jupiter's moons yahoo

Strength returns and grateful
Alan and I to talk
No Mass this Easter Sunday
Just take a little walk

We talk about Arrival
Dune, the Once and Future King
Prayers for human survival
Eva Cassidy can sing!

Got my mind on Judi
My soul, Ms. Susan Meek
Wendy by the water
Soup: potato leek

              Elpis!

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