Posts
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Meeting Place
Meet me at the River’s End
where waters slow and sink
where bank gives way to the bottomless depths
below the siren’s screams
Meet me in the Mountain Shade
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That World is Now
My oldest friend,
so old and almost forgotten, golden memories like her gleaming leaves disconnecting, dying, decaying in the brown of the brush below.
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Here for You-- A Music Collage
If the sky above you
should turn dark and full of clouds
Paint your palette blue and grey
look out on a summer’s day
We all need somebody
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Thoughts on a Sunset
It’s moments like these I wish would never end.
The sky would never fade into the dark.
The sea would never storm.
The news would never catastrophize,
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The Difference
"Please explain a tree,"
I ask, and before
The natural silence of pondering,
The chirping of thought as woven melodies,
The rotation of gears churning into place,
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Not Even a Footstep
The water wilderness yearns to be wild, no more.
The streets: gone
once flooded with us,
not the stream
The dam: gone
Loves
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Drill It Out
Inspired by the lockdown drill and debrief I had in school today
Cold hands on my shoulder that chilled to the bone
A school hallway, a morning like a dream. A class change.
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End Zone
Repair the world,
pull off the patterned papers.
Leave the walls all bare and empty,
no toll, free entry.
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Music
Music
Is something
So beautiful
So simple
So sweet
And yet it carries so much power
Of the composer
The band
The conductor
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11/9/24
When best friends of old
become polite passersby
still give them a smile and let your heart be full
for theirs are broken too
and need to be reminded to mend.
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