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What Surrounds

Walking in a cool forest Safe from the heat of the day, the buzz of cicadas, the soundtrack of the woods, Scattered beams of light thru...

Empowered

I've synthesized the universe Into a sedentary brew A distillation process I always had, but never knew Articulated language Specific per...

Step Forth

To point a sloven soul on the existential path Beset on all sides By invisible barriers, A middle life quandary, To fit the round body...

Promises to Keep

(On the Occasion of my Uncle Bill's bench dedication) This day is all we have to live our lives And we live it thru honor, To love the...

Fall Where They May

Follow in my life path I think I'd like that Thoughts racing thru my head I think I should write that, Identifying the way you feel Won't...

Resting in Columbia

Let's keep it above board don't always have to think deep don't have to search for every reason except why i lose sleep. Let's keep it...

Nothing

There is a nothingness Inside One that feeds on nothing, Needs nothing. One that begs no begging Relies on no one but myself. And if this...

Preying

I walk on frittered grass Beneath A cast iron sky Only one jacket worn-- a fool's plan, But this far out from the door, I'll labor on....

Oh, The Silence

Long day End of a long week Went for a drive To bide me some time And buy me some things. Purchased the lot And turned to go home And...

Autumn In Atlanta

No longer autumn in Atlanta It's December in Decatur A rainy, cold front Swept the land I wish I'd heard this second hand I'll never...

Open

Facing this day I leave my heart open, Like a door ajar, In spite of this day The sun, my skin, and all it scorches I leave my heart...

When I Get Here

You can't top the West coast The perfect places-- Los Angeles and San Diego I'll let them be, there. I've got a good view North of...

A Good Spot

Of all the talk Politics and movement This one rose And that one fell This group's cursed While that group's lineage endures All that...

A Part of the Night

I walk to my balcony The edge of the parking garage Outside my door Of the apartment building, I own the space, On borrowed time, I get...

Carve A Life

I am thinking with my soul I was thinking with my head How could I explain to others How I got to where I'm at, I was spinning round in...

Shining Yet

A beckoned solitude--rejoice The neighbors are in full voice I hoist the window up a touch To join the seasoned air The whistling,...

Passing Thru

I saw an old friend I said how've you been? He chose the awkward path and actually told me: He said I'm suffering man, I've really been...

The Wrong Thing

Most times, I click the wrong link I thought the wrong think I drive the wrong way Long stops on short days I meet the right person and...

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