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"Hesitate" written on 03/09/2019

8/25/2024

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hesitate
i didn’t mean to
your eyes, unblinking
patient
suck me in deep
 
and now i know
i can’t reply
 
the gulf widens
like a crack in the lake ice
 
as you turn
away
 
the crack expands
and i sink into
blackness
  
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"You" written on 03/2000

8/1/2024

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a sensing,
a feeling starting deep within me
self armoured tree, its sap trapped inside
has started to flow again
 
i let your kindness
like cool clear water
seep into my well-defended soul
 
mornings after nights and days of wonderment
leave me vibrantly tranquil
 
i hang up the phone and soar
into the sky through clouds and
back into myself
 
tonight
is a lifetime away
salty tears of joy form up
but don’t spill
in anticipation
 
later lying beside me
your hand touching mine
power, raw energy flows from your fingertips
through me
around me
and then i feel me flowing to you
into you
through you and we are transformed
 

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"All Day" written on 09/05/2019

7/1/2024

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i woke up one morning
and i was under water

the water flowed easily
through my nose
like really thick air

and then out my abdomen
where gills had appeared

i didn't have to breath
just keep slowly moving

it was so nice to lay on
the bottom of my room
and look up at the distorted
sky, without any panic

i could stay here all day

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"Hope" written in 10/1997

6/24/2024

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i run
from the cold white rays
of the sun
my heart empty
as i slide away
from the dark void
of loves residue
echoing down empty corridors
like a child's laughter after
they've left the room
torn emotional fabric
barely holds

hope
slowly
rethreads the needle
weaving texture, stronger, lighter
simpler more elegant
but
somehow incomplete
waiting for loves return
to add vibrancy
dimension
colour

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"Hip hop" written on 06/04/2019

6/19/2024

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to say i don't get it
would be an understatement
but don't mis-interpret me
i don't hate it

rhyming words at the end of the line
set to a beat i could buy with a dime
talking about booze, drugs and sex
life is a party taken to excess

that's all it is, that's what is seems
i'm a millionaire party boy in my dreams
i guess it's really hard to make things rhyme
and it's even better if you commit a crime

but good for Snoop and Drake
they cast their thymes upon the land
and in the end they made it man

to say i don't get it
would be an understatement 
but don't mis-interpret me
maybe i could make it
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"Hunger" written on 06/03/2019

6/10/2024

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be patient
like the ambush
predator

waiting in the fog
of consciousness
for that moment when
a flash of light

the light of a new insight
illuminates the grey
synaptic landscape
and starts a cascade of
of pleasure

until the idea is fully formed
and swallowed whole
and your creative hunger
is satiated
for now

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"Endless Day" written on 10/1997

6/5/2024

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she said she needed space
 
in that instant
the universe like a sucking wound
dispersed my soul
in random pieces
glittering diamonds
of hope and joy spreading
away from me
 
i ask why
i want to push harder
my mind says no
i shout NO
and this only pushes
her further away
 
endless days fold
into endless nights
her scent still lingers on my pillow
a scent that is only her
as the dark blue dawn
turns to grey
and i awaken to
another endless day

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"Flavour du Jour" written on 21/11/2017

6/1/2024

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flavour du jour
activism
distracts us
from the big issue
facts fall first
then language
loses meaning
in a vast sea of
relativism
 
where the raging
individual asserts
god-given rights
 
feels empowered
 
unfortunately
as the waters rise
they realize
too late
they have never learned
to swim
and their god-given rights
mean nothing
 
 

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"Desire" written on 22/04/2019

5/25/2024

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to be desired
really wanted
with a burning
yearning passion

to desire
to want so bad
every cell in your body
is drawn like iron filings
to a magnet

to feel, to float
on a roaring rapid
washed away
never catching
your breath

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"Rain" written on 30/04/2019

5/16/2024

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rain
to think that water
can fall from the
sky

who will believe this
when the future is so hot
so dry

that water never falls
from the sky

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    I started my "Poem-A-Day" writing exercise back in 2010. It was a way to get into the habit of writing everyday.  It took awhile but once I got into it I really enjoyed the process.  I took a break in 2023 to work on getting "Carbon Copy" into the wild. I also wanted to re-read my poem-a-day scribblings to see if there were any unpolished gems amongst the rubble.  My plan is to post one per week in my Blog.  Find "Carbon Copy" at:
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