So much becomes us only in reflection
dappled surface of river running towards the patient ocean
against the bend, the boat pushes against timeless currents
and then, the heart, a mirage we make real by remembering
for #OpenWrite
So much becomes us only in reflection
dappled surface of river running towards the patient ocean
against the bend, the boat pushes against timeless currents
and then, the heart, a mirage we make real by remembering
for #OpenWrite
A song is something to remember a memory by -
a melody hiding inside
a scaffold of a poem -
Sometimes, you sing together; sometimes, you sing it alone
for #OpenWrite
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Maybe you can remember how we've become Entangled; Not just merely Tempered, but enmeshed Inside these echoes Of Newness and the now
Acrostic poem (“mention”) for #OpenWrite
It takes quiet, doesn't it, to notice the lone leaf, dropping?
The way it swoops its way downward, taking its time dancing on the currents
This, the first sign of summer ending, signaling something to a sleepy world
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We thought it was surprise snow, in June, in middle America, because we were young and didn't know any better, the two of us, barely still boys, in that old Buick, barreling back to New England, from Madison, the mission to Wisconsin to woo her back, a failed one, but still, a college break adventure, and it was a swarm of bugs, not flakes, a night cloud of them knocking glass and waking us up so fully with surprise we finally laughed at it all, and that's what we still remember the most: the storm of insects clouding our view as we drove east, back towards home
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Even broken strings on an old broken guitar sing in deep repose;
the memory thrums - the hand strums an architecture of notes
Somewhere, that familiar song still plays in a broken key; its resonance, floats
for #OpenWrite
I'm often wandering through the words of poets, sneaking small pockets of ideas, stealing seeds for sprouts, holding out hope on how poems emerge from dirt tilled by others; take a breath, blow, and let dandelions flow
for #OpenWrite
Suddenly In Bloom
You merely blinked and then it was as if the switch, flicked; the flowers bloomed
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This becomes that and that becomes this, but which is the what and what is the which, and where is the when, for when a look becomes that, and that becomes this – is it then that this glance becomes kiss?
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Ode To A River Current
Knitted along the edge where running water caresses sand, we stand here, quiet, listening, imagining ways in which days fold in, forever looping, linking, patterned inside the sounds of a fixed flow, never broken but for brief moments of falling
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