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The heart that sows is star that glows
In tune reel ran fed through rhyme’s fan,
Ends in well ran, begins “I can !”
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Love lost, love won with one-to one, true faithfulness through trust, find once begun through time have run too often turn rust dust.
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Let life through stillness still more life gestate,
anon the pattern paints a second state...
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The right inalienable to decide
Thus sane need to retain worldwide.
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Rehearsal ? repetition ? f[o]ray fancy-free ?
Timed role’s played only once before cold blast.
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As nature hates a vacuum NOTHING can be but a figment fragment second-guessed. Reality and dreams combine, their quest is thus to...
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If you can write without cash motivation,
Self-righteousness avoiding like the plague,
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Let's set shared singing spirit free, soaring swiftly skywards, try on wings unpinionned, wild, to see
eternity, and to reply to questions
15 lines, 5 comments,
on May 18 8:48 AM 2008. In Hope, Love
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The carnival of carefree play too long has tripped its careless way as senseless as an ass’s bray while flesh from flesh Time stripped away
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Essential is it to unite
to pressing questions answers which
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Pray day
In the way day
Out of the way slay day.
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Awhile pray pause who, passing by the way,
Lines cue, are fed into sped changeling’s clay.
Can you spring from my fate what your’s may b
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Remember then the friendly call
You make can take no time at all...
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Oh, what avails a pretty face with beauty creams besprinkled,
as Father Time wins every race, soon age Life’s page has wrinkled.
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An image springs to mind: A child, with childish innocence upon the shores of life, inclined to play, without pretence or mask.
38 lines, 10 comments,
on Aug 23 12:22 PM 2007. In Life, Time
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This flow is pattern icing on the cake
the poet bakes it takes the time to write
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If life's tree be but mirage, still its leaves
Awake joy's book, whose leaves forget life grieves.
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When entertaining easy options think each step leads on to better or to worse
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If none recall beginning how can end
present a launching pad to bleed penned thought,
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For dust to dust returns, earth turns to earth;
Each sickled moon a sickly herald, wan,
Is witness to impermanence. Fanned plan
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The mark one makes must lightly lie
as understatement or the lie
must out to flout each signal sign
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Upon our earth everywhere, as g00d is in all as all, within its one time cocoon hibernating anticipating due awakening,
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Past and Present’s argument:
busy bee belligerent
pollen gummy complement
67 lines, 4 comments,
on Apr 20 11:57 AM 2008. In Life, Thoughts
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Adopt or adapt,
option apt adds attention
rapt to verse unwrapped.
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Beacon beckon high
perched up in the mind's lighthouse
fingers the heart's cry.
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Season spent, none can prevent destiny’s predicament when hive honey government planned obsolescent workers die. Sediment by sediment, show
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Don't overestimate apparent reasons, rhymes of season's trial:
truth many seek, few find behind sphinx smile.
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December turns November's shredded page.
Complacent assumptions artificial
lose centre stage, as spirit must reguage
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Between dark past and future flight
Though chance seems blind behind sin’s call
True dance dreams find combined in all
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Life’s pattern shifts as time from time’s thread stock mutates or waits on catalyst to key into, through, metamorphosis to free free-will
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Sing Carpe Diem while one holds life’s floor.
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Each step to freedom leaves fell past behind,
Destroying bias, locks, unlocks blind mind ...
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So lend an ear with second sight not third hand platitudes.
Send message clear, true progress steer, evolving attitudes.
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Summer spent, mortality:
you and I, born to die.
31 lines, 2 comments,
on Sep 21 4:59 AM 2008. In Life, Time
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Leave past regrets and vain expense through calm, discover future tense vibrating with tuned harmonies which may combine both hopes and dre
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Life’s chance encounters can precipitate
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Confronted with life's puzzle we
prepare discontinuity.
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Time time defies. Change may initiate
Insight, vision new, expands to date
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Charmed encounter blossoms as life’s stair opportunity affords, joy rare reopens expectations which appear real, rhyme feel, weal, we’ll se
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What some receive as Gospel, strong believe, others hold as heresy, disgrace. Black, white, day, night, lack insight to replace with hid wh
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What shadow seems, what light beam seams unzip, is figment of imagination or insight into eve's apple's core, skin, pip to link past future
18 lines, 3 comments,
on May 4 2:41 PM 2008. In Thoughts, Time
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Half empty, half full,
life's perceptions drip through time,
blow hot, cold, push, pull
5 lines, 6 comments,
on Oct 25 1:28 AM 2008. In Time, Haiku
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Where minds unite crunched clock relents,
where'er they fight, punched clock laments,
15 lines,
on Jan 9 4:40 PM
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Empathy, by Chance is kissed, neither through insouciance nor focus, finding renaissance spurred as joys enhance minds’ tryst.
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What brave new world will blow the wind of change ?
What challenges create, what rearrange ?
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Where twin souls share serenity
hearts, minds, unite in harmony.
11 lines, 9 comments,
on Sep 4 6:53 AM. In Hope, Love
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Take tenderness as touchstone, trust as blade, with constancy to thwart the darkest shade, as courage clad convictions conquer all,
15 lines, 7 comments,
on May 7 10:48 PM 2008. In Hope, Sonnet
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Uncertain lies the frown that bears the head
No light, no flight, and no delight ahead...
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stroll hand in hand through leafy land in freedom everywhere, -
no asking why, nor spoke reply, we’d need, nor seek, nor care -
32 lines, 4 comments,
on Mar 29 10:03 PM 2008. In Nature
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Infinity with din met meteorite, turned stone, clogged artery foot bill, no time repentance, sin.
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If you can fight Monsanto’s sterile sowing,
deny blight warnings, nor fear climate change,
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Can crucial questions ever disappear
when far is near and in between, there here ?
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nostalgic tears before breath flows so fast from cast off shadow-shows that those remaining in their clay shake,shiver,quiver,quake,betray
29 lines, 5 comments,
on May 20 1:55 PM 2008. In Sad, Time, Sonnet
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Cusps converge then redivide, unexpectedly conceal symphonic links Time may reveal perchance some day tune runed inside, subtle riddles
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When Dave Priest died grave sexton told to toll the bell for one grown old - now he is young again, released from epiderm to earthworm’s fe
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The grain, who reaps the golden grain knows dust to dust’s returned again - though flesh may rot, one can’t impound the spirit risen, stren
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Deep sensitivity may not secure soul’s struggle against fear where envy, greed undermine ambitions fine, immure the mind behind walls high
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Early, late, while he dares grate counter Fate,
Surly hate, wily heirs wait, counterfeit
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Decisions take, nor hesitate nor bide
Excessive time awaiting from outside
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When doubt, once abstract, shadows throws to dim the spirit’s inner flows, the mind must not procrastinate, though expectations seem betray
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alter[c]ation is seen upon reflection as outliving hope's scope in time, as atrophy begins to paralyse - no roses, violins
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Two routes appear here, one to errors past
Will lead whatever speed her journey takes
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Will often will shrug off restrictions,
still, seldom still: Man's contradictions.
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Trace race reels on haphazardly till passed up, by time's bank foreclosed, to ‘Standard Poor’ metamorphosed as mind grinds heartfelt hopes
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Don't grieve, but, leave, departing in a trice - better alone than groan pain doubled twice. 'If of himself he will not love' advice is aca
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Tired men react to role-reversing reel,
Harsh judgement pass upon deceptions deep.
Exit by bear pursued few locks will keep
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Successful soul’s progress sheds superfluous shell
as earthworm evolves into star.
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Beyond Time’s dark, incessant, grind,
find ways with creativity
to soar, explore, - scope redesigned -
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Dream's houri land, seems hour I land, time's sand
Speed shadow shapes we hither, thither, cast
reflections that, scarce heeded, never la
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Dreams surf cross-currents, reel unwinds from real to hasten selfless spirits who would heal harsh wounds society inflicts - for stars scar
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Life's cycle turns as candle burns, warms all within its beams, ~ road cats' eyes take, make no mistake, tomorrow threads your dreams ...
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Glory for soul, some say life sends gold key,
Or we poor, sole, dumb pray strife ends, goal flee.
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Come heed Pope - Alexander - quoted, he
Marks "little learning may intoxicate,
Complete immersion serves to liberate."
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Use well life’s spell as spacious hall
To understand how all IN all
Equal stands, IS all to learn.
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Empires rise and empires fall
Make way for others, Nature's call
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Times of trouble sponge solutions new, insight inks page which once seemed whitewash blank. Grief is patient.
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Winged on one page of Destiny, love, amity and emity,
lend flashpoint sparkle swiftly we abandon for eternity.
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Name's flame fame : empty echo on Time's breeze
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I lived ignoring care and weight
drifted here, there, at easy gait,
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Eye contact is important, for the mind yearns to discern Life’s signals, to decode existence’s enigmas on the road to understanding, ever n
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What happens at the closing of my eyes ? happens in that sleep which all must know at the beginning’s end, when fast and slow, the tide’s u
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Deny temptations of soft ride, ease superficial, risks unquantified, choosing “safe way”, straight road comfort fed, idea[l]s mediocre are
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A cherry blossom spri[n]gs as h[e]aven stream
Neath rainbow bloom beads whose bouquet may bridge,
Graft, eastern ‘floating world’ to wes
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Fallen is star which once brightly, once clear from sheer firmament shone, no trace now remains as Time lightly grieves over life’s leaves
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Witness she in he
as he in she startles free
voyage discovery
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Past tears have taken measure of losing precious treasure,
but parting seems slight pleasure when sharing hopes again.
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Way's narrow, high's temptation's signing fee
between the devil and the deep blue sea ...
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BE one with all, let all be one with thee,
find self through self forgot, attaining harmony.
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Life floods in waves, in waves ebbs keeps
ups, downs, and roundabouts,
some, salmon, leap, from most no peeps
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Seeking enlightenment where apprehension
Or instinct’s fears, dissolves, and where ‘to be’
For once is not an empty phrase. ‘To see’
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Madness of life with nought left to defend,
as palsied hairs are shed
and heart thumps at the tread
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Retain true focus for fair golden fleece
Is found within heart's harmony which heeds
Simplicity, not ink lined frontispiece !
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Cast off passed footprints, seek to trace vast mark unique on Future's face, winnow Past's chaff from grain - no pain proves state of grace
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Dead end lies destiny both mouse and man
enjoy - span evanescent also-ran.
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Is man omniscient, tinkering inside DNA seen as 'Drive Nature Aside' ? self-catalyst for causal time-bomb burst as Chronos swallows humanki
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Is poet’s [t]race [s]pace verse expresses
Desire for fame ? aim ? game fear presses ?
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Fractal interactions weave warp wire supporting pattern framework harmonies, knit through elastic links whose spiral gyre rejects all artif
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When timing rhymes share, care, with air sublime free from all artificial mirthless mime
there limitless stretch cerulean skies emancipate
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When the last Home Page is indexed, content filtered, untried, and the oldest critic muzzled, youngest webmaster tried, we'll pass to a pea
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Shared views should tune two sunshine runes through flow to mend, to filter out, doubt's daunting pain, suspend in amber life's imbroglio,
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Though silent snowflakes hush both man and mouse,
white mantle donned by garden, path and house,
41 lines, 9 comments,
on Nov 26 1:46 AM 2007. In Hope, Life
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Where chance encounter contradicts Earth's dearth of understanding and enlightenment one rose through smog's pollution spreading scent is w
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Gather Love’s petals while you play, old Time locks box, mocks sighing,
rich youth's bloom which may blush today wilts soon, on spilt mil
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Gather stashed chips up while you may, for time's chimes are a- flying,
though luck still sees the light today soon boon may be denying.
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So, Mower, mow,
sweep all who weep, with final coup de grâce.
39 lines, 2 comments,
on Sep 20 3:04 PM. In Life, Time
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Acceptance chants dance
elegance finds ult_I_mate_
umb...rage checks advance
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Yin, Yang, undermine
differences recombine
all in all define
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Yin, Yang, undermine
differences recombine -
all in all define
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Beneath willow maze,
soul sprung from life's sad sum stream,
sleeps some spectral haze
5 lines, 4 comments,
on May 16 7:08 AM 2008. In Sad, Other, Haiku
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Shun candyfloss round
Life's springy stick, lips lick sticky
s[l]ickness [s]pun unsound
5 lines, 5 comments,
on May 16 6:29 AM 2008. In Society, Haiku
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Consensus : axe, knife
with which bland complacency
hacks protesting life
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After the day, dusk –
can man face race also-ran -
after the play, husk
15 lines, 2 comments,
on Oct 29 12:17 PM 2008. In Haiku, Life, Time
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Foothold firm may twist
false pride
2 lines, 2 comments,
on Sep 4 2:23 PM 2008. In Haiku, Other
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Illumination
of soul made whole awakens
from hibernation
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Lateral thinking
overspills the boundaries
of the mind, winking
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Accept the unthought,
grasping at straws till ready
to unlearn torts taught ...
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From sent present's tomb
crescent dreams, coalescent,
spring towards full bloom
-
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The mind’s magic rug
cause, effect, can transcend,
span from ksana to yug
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Meanings st[r]eamed, in_tense
coat code mirror's reflections, -
trible condensed sense …
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Soul enlightenment :
Way becomes both purpose and
sole entitlement.
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Quote Aristotle : 15 words Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Jonathan Robin
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Men, bizarre,
Chuckle they are born to lead, indeed
Know not that lead in head leads to poor breed !
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Who’d flow through harmony no rage should know, nor need safe haven seek,
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From vain complain move on again see sea's brim full of fish, go take your pick as lips you lick so wickedly delish.
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'The Quest' is all one needs to know the Way where interplay may flow both forwards, back, or silent stay immobile through the noisy day. T
84 lines, 4 comments,
on Jul 10 1:04 PM 2007. In Spiritual
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tastes fragile for societal pillar:
contemptuous attempt half-hearted
one moment here, next tear departed.
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life conquers strife, scope steers fears far to sea,
replacing grope by clear transparency.
16 lines, 5 comments,
on Jan 25 6:03 AM. In Hope, Sonnet
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I knocked upon Life’s door awhile, imprinted there a kiss, a smile -
when I my turn at roll-call miss, what will remain of smile and kiss
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Upon the cusp of choice and chance / stagnation's stigma or advance, / the heart must choose though bear in mind / a view holistic, leave b
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Intense the sense of pattern which the mind never ceases weaving as the Way advances over Time and rhyme to find meaning's meanings simple
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IF only ? Lifespans none extend, onto eternity see Fate lottery duly orchestrate ... Yet 'free will' sentence may suspend.
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If then tomorrow, you awake to find us parted, do not break your heart, nor yet your raiment rent - but count the moments that were lent as
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My memory - wax candle w[e]aned from flame,
while others, vain, search answers to Life’s game.
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Season seeds another season’s seeds until the seasons cease with Time’s decease. Reason reads another reason’s creeds understanding
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Wide world, or vision narrow held as crutch confronting harsh fate knelled, too often interface is held to preconceptions neatly spelled.
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WHO had not erred, its warnings stand, world governments well knew my trick preferred all understand - through species hop on cue.
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What lies in head, ahead what lies ? Lies past
no hold retain spite hope sustaining scope,
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Make every moment matter, dark expel,
in laughter live until death's tocsin knell.
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In this world and of this world, we wonder whence we came and where to morrow we will soon be whirled through three score years and ten.
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Whate’er the reasons that decide
the insolence of the individual; - bled
by fears, or blessed by wisdom wide,
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The silent seconds, spendthrift, greedy glide: -
dovetail decades to centuries for waiting dead,
28 lines, 15 comments,
on Nov 9 1:16 PM 2007. In Society
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Borderline inspiration spans yet spurns ego echo… nowhere, everywhere, are found both to wear and to tear the same surround.
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Serenity stems from no outward show,
depends on light within to prosper, glow.
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Uncurled, self finds self, Way redefined, on track for metamorphosis conjugating “hope” and “is”...
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Vine leaves in Eve's hair offer proof that the snake had tempted fair maiden to eat of the tree, a damned shame from Eden she had to flee
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electrons free charged you and me with mission key to play from cause/effect to Man erect - elected some would say -
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I dreamed that disabilities priority became for polititians, that disease defeated was, the same rights, equal opportunities were granted
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Bonanza dreams, boon nailed, no shows,
so stanza schemes soon fail, flow slows.
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It’s not so much the time that passes that matters, that the lines increase - mind views too much through tinted glasses from birth until
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When choice is confiscated by little minds or might,
scope's rightful place vacated when bigotry or spite
40 lines, 2 comments,
on Apr 22 12:29 PM 2008. In Society
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Is revenge bliss restoring some equilibrium ?
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Who reads Life’s conformist pressures, narrow schemes,
Yearns for alternatives, free dreams
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as centuries dissolve, full meaning's chime
to tocsin turns from tintinnabulation.
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From fears unmet to hopes as yet
unanswered [s]he advances through
the fields of feelings most neglect
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Who is from stars descended to stardust must return when once the journey ended then karma true extended hands memory torch to burn to karm
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Life’s energy expended in latency will churn till instincts apprehended - once contradictions mended -
are ready to discern
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Keep troth, swift speed, shared need feeds ache.
Each each may teach outreach to grow,
To hold, to cherish, flow, and so[w]…
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Sell static short, key change, unbattern hatch,
elastic thought, free range, fun pattern match.
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Life is a game where cards are closely stacked
Against the players, every one of whom
Is well aware his [s]pace [t]race in life’s room
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Today, blank slate but barely scratched
must soon, with predecessors matched,
discover that it is despatched
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REsponsible reponse reveals real reel
Enlacing embellishment empyreal.
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Hold convictions high, spurn compromise,
To learn to learn, not follow others’ lies.
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please read notes .)
In fact, fiction and fantasy, he triptoed to and fro between the glow of her energy and the fractal reflections of h
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Life : a finite succession of infinite opportunities
4 lines, 5 comments,
on Apr 20 4:38 AM 2008. In Life
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Thin red line dividing debt
from freedom fails, harsh hammer falls,
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No Joker may be played as panacea,
shared harmony adversity can conquer.
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LIfe shadows swallows, overthrows,
FEels garden grows for heart’s repose.
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No ducking responsibilities.
8 lines, 5 comments,
on Jul 13 2:31 PM 2007. In Other, Society
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Time waits on time till Cause, Effect combine.
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Each day seize, sunrise in the east,
Each day flees, sunset in the west, Each day keys into more from least, Each day recedes, yet what is
73 lines, 8 comments,
on Jul 22 11:18 AM 2008. In Thoughts, Life
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Little man lost, curling up very small when nobody notices he's there at all, hush, hush, whisper who dare, all seems unfair when
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Hesitation is a living lie most men accept to ease their daily rot, time-trap snapped shut once only bolt is shot.
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Against the 'current', with the stream of light and life he'd soar serene, is it surprising that strong gleam stayed long unshared ?
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Empowered yolk sheds yokes from wasted past,
prepares fresh dish delicious, tastes repast.
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An ‘I’ finds gift of second sight to spread
fair wings which stretch clear spirit, steer ahead...
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The moral of this simple sonnet's seen :
make hay while sun still shines, seek pastures green.
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Observe the busy bee, my son, which from dawn rich till day is done, from bloom to blossom journeying,
extracts from each a different thi
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Though mortal still, endowed with second-sight,
'I' melts in 'you' - gene-I-US equal quite -
'My', 'Your' and 'Our' identical. Time's ey
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In sorrow-smile strange siren spectrum sings.
Rainbow surface spins unfathomed rings
Intense emotions stirs. Heart, unassigned,
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Many links extended, t[r]end outwards into light,
As rainbow drops descended dispense due dew delight.
New roads must be defended to sti
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Incandescence uncontrolled risks rant.
Need to control seems self-destructive, soon
Drive is perverted, pricking Trust’s balloon.
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AND CURIOUSLY women often bow !
PLANNED obsolescence may await men now !
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Idyll ideal's no mirage as free spirits start
Enchanting voyage, may a new world chart ...
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It died as champagne bubbles uncorked the midnight hour, its blaze of light a timeless sight atop the Eiffel Tower.
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'Unto oneself stay true' flows naturally on cue when 'Brave New World' we face. Temptations one must rue, defy, deny, subdue, prepare just
42 lines, 3 comments,
on Aug 2 11:42 AM 2008. In Hope
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Cold reasons, fleas on life, split heirs, care not
For more than ego’s validation sot.
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Causal links need sequencing to try
to harness fruitful opportunities,
to channel energy for future free.
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Tenderness through touch together keyed. Hope for scope sends light which emanates Intense emotions as each heart vibrates,
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"Nel mezzo del cammin" each trip appears
however short the day or long the years.
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Now here, now fled, light bright's soon snuffed, clock ticks,
Existence fragile echoes with life’s play
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Hard work calls for rewarding rest, ideas fresh store in life's best.
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I sat me down before the screen reflecting on Fate’s twist, on how my scope was narrow, mean when web did not exist. Regretted Internet has
157 lines, 1 comment,
on Aug 30 12:01 AM 2007. In Society, Parody
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For centuries man from the sun sought guiding light, but cycles turn, - where light is now one day will none
remain to kindle hope or burn
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No fencing, self-defencing masks men need -
Serenity on openness must feed.
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From shoreline into sure line straight as die "we may" the Gordian ribbons can release fresh options from tired wrappings, can rely upon dr
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As nature hates a vacuum NOTHING can
be but a figment fragment second-guessed.
Reality and dreams combine, their quest
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From mess congestive to suggestive test of chaos, universal fractal fest patterns pitter patter, matter must invent itself from, to, throug
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Soft all as feather's fall Ma'at tests to weigh
A day, year, threescore ten, scale called for sins
Life's limelight stole from soul when
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