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Whole Hearted
Do soul mates exist?
Do hearts and minds spark when kissed?
Yes and more when missed.
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Think About It
Mind over matter
is absurd when the world’s weight
is on your shoulders.
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Non-Yielding
It’s not easy street
with bumps and stops, though poets
get the write of way.
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Vicariously
I live within my writing.
Life, it seems, is hard.
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Forces of nature,
like myself, follow paths of
the least resistance.
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Maturity is
preferring the acoustic
Led Zeppelin tunes
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Disconnectionated
The older I get,
the younger I feel I feel,
till felt what’s real.
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Preflighty Check
Dangerous actions
follow dangerous thinking.
Think before thinking.
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Nit Pickin
When I examine
myself with a microscope
I just get smaller.
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Density is when
The skull grows ever thicker
Yet hat size unchanged
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The full moon does not
invite evil, it’s simply
illuminating
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Since purchasing a
New rhyming dictionary
I’ve been writing less
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Chivalry’s not dead.
It holds open the door to
more enlightened times.
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For each speck of light
seen in space there are billions
more hidden behind
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Hearts never open
Hearts never to be broken
Un-open bleed fixed
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Hearts always open
Welcome all that’s broken
Open yet broken still
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Welcome hearts open
Melded pairs never broken
Hearts beating times rhythm
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To Win
Debates are won by
not scholarly knowledge but
better debaters
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To Sit
My favorite seat
Has no wings or down cushion
It’s with me always
*
To Die
Bad day, awful night
Headache, horrible life
Alternative’s worse
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Poets are very
fortunate, every day’s
like Valentine’s Day
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Valentine’s Day
Poets shine and drown in their
Teary reflections
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Cold is opening
The refrigerator door
To feel a warm breeze
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Being forgetful
is only problematic
when you remember.
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Steely Writer-
Novels made easy-
Simply steal a best seller
Then change all the words
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Haiku-
Civilizations
Philosophies recorded
Three lines at a time
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Imprisoned Poetry-
Justice tips balance
Writ large by hand, chain and scale
Pen or bar and shale
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Confusion Says
Confusion is life
Befuddlement is wonder
If not – try harder
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Enter
Seek to entertain
And be entertained seeking
Seek not and be not
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What?
Write of what’s known?
Than to write would be easy
When one knew nothing
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First Snow –
November flurry
A light dusting, just a taste
Nature’s gentle way
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Hibernation –
Armor of the down
Wooly virtue, thermal lust
Winter’s flannel dreams
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Magnificent Magnification –
A heart and souls lens
The unseen invisible
Warmth forever felt
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Warm Thought-
Logs glow on the fire
Hearth’s warming a loving home
Hearts need never roam
*
Warmer Thought-
Smoke billows skyward
Hot ash preserves the warm glow
Of your fiery eyes
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Seed of Humanity-
Wizards of the wood
Shaping civilizations
Reaching for the sky
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‘Twas a sad tale penned
of a long and boring life:
Chapter One – The End
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Headlights –
.
Optimism is:
Writing an end to darkness
When there’s no bright side
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Un-Free Times –
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When do poets sell?
When all my time’s spent writing
Or thinking I can’t
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Scientific Optimism –
.
Nature’s law shared in
Physics and psychology
Is that all things bounce
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