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 May 2 Ky
Unpolished Ink
Bring me no roses,
or sad white lilies
chant me no dirge,
or quiet tunes of deep respect
this is not remembrance
for it was never how I lived
or ever wanted to be
instead, bury me in colour
asters for my winding sheet
yes, daisies for my shroud
a stars and wonders funeral
and sing me out, real loud
I am another river—
indomitable. made in your image. mutable
Just like you ☺️
 May 2 Ky
S R Mats
Hummer
 May 2 Ky
S R Mats
I watch you play
Small and mighty
Yet you are flighty
Swift as an arrow
A funny fellow
Beauty shimmers
Light glimmers
As beat tiny wings
Inebriation
On occasion
Or so it seems
You sip then zip
Away
In the air I feel solitude
Birds are singing softly
It’s so quiet
 Jun 2023 Ky
Donall Dempsey
LEARNING FROM MY DAUGHTER

she poses
pauses
poses

"Wot ya doin'
Tilly
my eyes question her

"I'm inventing
my self
making my world"

I wordless
my daughter far more
wiser than her father

could ever be
but then
she's three
 Jun 2023 Ky
badwords
Today's Savior
 Jun 2023 Ky
badwords
Toil is wrought
Before us
What we begot
Efforts expounded
Creativity founded
But all will be for naught

Ctrl+S

A universal champion
The preserver of the undone
Tomorrow we'll find
The appropriate time
To see that the battle is won
An oldie that I dusted off to provide some much needed levity to my stream. Honestly, I cannot ascertain when I actually wrote this as it exists before I began including dating conventions into saving my work and long before I thought that my work might be worth saving. Hmmmm, ironic. Even more ironic is the minutia is that no one saves anything locally anymore, we convene to the almighty 'Cloud'. Irony and anachronisms, that's me in a nutshell I suppose.

Although for extra 'Dad' factor:
Windows: ctrl+S
Mac Command+S
Linux... You hug a penguin before his fancy gala at the Met? I dunno Linux so  good. My neck is a barren landscape for bearding...
 Jun 2023 Ky
Notepad
Human
 Jun 2023 Ky
Notepad
We all have a choice
Don't be ashamed
Just follow your heartbeat
Because I promise you
You'll be okay
The silence still buries me but one day it will become my favorite music
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