Through the Eyes of a Child

posted over 3 years ago, updated 5 minutes later | 0 comments
Look!

She dances, dances, d a n c e s

Her lithe body with her hands lying lightly on an insubstantial partner

Glides, whirls, traipses nimbly across the elegant ballroom floor

Her feet seeming to float

Her svelte arms and legs are a perfectio...

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Thoughts in the Dark

posted over 4 years ago | 8 comments
The ebony-sapphire night curtained the world in folds of breathless quiet. The stillness hushed in eerie swirls all about and everywhere, still, still, velvet still, as if that were the first night of the new-born earth and all were hushed in wond...

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Let Me Tell You a Story

posted over 4 years ago | 2 comments
People, everywhere, people
So many stories worthy to be told
Let me look into your eyes
to divine the language of your life
Your heart beats the cadence of poetry
Share with me your tales of heartbreatk and joy
The I may wonder at your courage an...

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Very Idle Thoughts

posted over 4 years ago | 0 comments
The years gather dust like antiques in the attic,
The earth heaves in paroxysms of dread,
The immaculate core becomes corrroded
with abuse and neglect,
The heart shrivels like a dead bird,
The mind narrrows like a path to nowhere,
The soul compr...

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I Can See You

posted over 4 years ago, updated 3 minutes later | 0 comments
Sometimes the moon appears above me in the dark
morn
Brilliant or perhaps hazy or with a fraint purple
aureole
My mother is there in that incandescent matter
Lying at her ease dressed in heavenly carnival silk
And crowned with roses of the most...

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Even a Speck

posted over 4 years ago, updated 1 minute later | 10 comments
When I look up into the stars
I think of the vastness of the universe
And I wonder
What am I?
Less than a speck of dust
My life seems to have so much drama
And yet it means nothing
Doesn't it?

Maybe I count as a totality
A totality of humankind
F...

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Drats!

posted over 4 years ago, updated 2 days later | 0 comments
Yes, stocky I am
But I blame them
Those bags of candy
Oh so handy
I'm an addict
And can't predict
If I'll ever be able
To completely disable
The brain connection
That leads to confection
Hope springs eternal
But oh that infernal
Bag of chocolate
...

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