poems.after.aylah
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Poems after Aylah
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Eyes of the Beloved
What is in the eyes of the Beloved,
hearts with strings attached
that cannot be broken,
or seared into with vision blind;
sweet justice found waiting in halls remembered.
A power greater than
one and one,
two together shining
in the sun;bright.
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Who we are…
We always love the ones that hurt,
the ones who need healing most of all.
We always love the sweetest rose
and hold it long after the petals fall.
Ones who do not love may injure, but cannot hurt.Ones, who love and hurt, can also heal.
And be healed.
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Star Child
vision stolen from the sun
bitter strife torn with unwritten pages
the original self bedridden
sightless, speechless, epileptic and comatoast
nature's own is dying faster than expected
suspected arsonists burning bridges, forests,
high-rises and depot stations to the stars
willing accomplishers to the under-taker's ball
rage gutted on primrose paths to enlightenment
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When I think about FDR's famous quote, "So, first of all, let
me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear
is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror
which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat intoadvance."
The ultimate result of fear is to deny the future. And at its
worst prevent it. The fragility of the past lies in the
possibility that it can be altered and otherwise be
misrepresented, in essence rewriting it.
The fragility of the future is the possibility that it neverhappens.
This is why I don't trust the "Big Picture", I rather like our
little experiment and would not like to have it become
extinct.
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Bright like the first star
As I imagine, it was virtually a multitude of ties.
I'd say it was an almost infinite number,
exceedingly viable and bright
and barely an exaggeration.
There is a wonder, if any of the first generation
survives to this day, or maybe they are so far away
to become irreparably invisible
and perhaps far, far too old.
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ghôti «°)))><
wrote this
Trills on a mandolin shimmer in the cool Florida evening.
A black and white cat curls his tail around his feet and waits for dinner.
Venus swings low in the south east. Bright like the first star.
Something in my heart remains unsettled.
One letter left un-written.
One card left un-sent.
Far off memories of your faceNick the corner of my vision,
Another year ending on a minor chord.
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Boundaries ?
boundaries may place one on the edge of abyssand that could be a falling away or fromeverything you know
and everything there is to knowany kind of confidence that puts you over an edge
that one does not come back fromis lost to everyone that does not follow.speculation on black holes
event horizon
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maybe not information is lostbut the only information we may see
is that YOU are gone
now here we are in a landwithout real boundaries
no place is an absolute abyss
even though there may be warning signsdo not enterthus privacy is ours too
and off we gowhere signs are freely open
and experience becomesTHE cosmic dancewe can know
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By argument, entreaty, or expostulation (toreason earnestly) plead urge
Beg of me my pen doorclosed to opine, and evermore.
your dense conclaves are Spartan
perverse enough for transduction,any fallacy is net approved to bask in gloryof absence in abeyance, have not the rebels
succumbed, except in the corners that you'vesought where else, but in the den of antiquity can
one dwellwho swells their ugliness to express everyone'sdisease.
Doctor, doctor, heal me please, once you've settled
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on a cure, then I'll know that you're sincere.I'm placed upon my tip of tongue,
no words escape drowning in a sea of meaning,constructing elastically, stretching thin.
Not yours, not mine, our hearts entwined,believing silly eyes looking forward to a day,when a moment's pleasure will not impress,
nor undress.
if the tactic fails to succeedthen the failure is yours to believe,
another tack could relieve your mincing
words of silent reign to sublime.to pass directly from solid to a vapor stateand seemingly disappear, as if there is no morea reason to state a case that's been decided by
fate.
Would you have yourself believe that you do notget what you want?
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Focus
a surface obscures any deepness of a wellseeks creation in hidden landscapes of a silent soul
screams covered by darkness of a quiet stormone step removed from feeling a constant fearone mile past an emotion never felt
it seems a trick to ignore every fatiguethus ignorance becomes bliss
a poet, perfect and pure,whose path is clear and destiny sureif it is all there anyway, all the time,
then focus becomes reality
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honestly try to rely on my non-conscious thoughtssometimes, in hopes that it reveals some sense of
feeling of expression that I find difficult to statein a thoughtful logical way. Primarily, it's justanother voice to add to the mix, for all I know Icould be quite delusional and I must admit the
facilities are really tops. While I clearly haven't
helped, I hope I haven't hindered. I'm normallytoo polite, so I try not to be.And besides I was mostly kidding. And can only
assume the same, in other words, to quote thatmost famous of whack jobs,
John McEnroe, "I don't believe you! You can'tbe serious!"
As simply as I can, it may be a slightimprovement to accept neutrality a little more
and reject negativity a little less.
In the interest of fairness, I think everyoneassumes too much that isn't true.
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