The standard response to breath-taking beauty, like the first moments of sunrise or a raindrop on the edge of a leaf, is pause and wonder
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The road construction detour before me ignites a guffaw
but in the inconvenient route I was sent on, I saw
something new and unexpected I hadn't known of, before
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The sum of this summer's morn is calculated by adding utility wire bird song to stormy night's rainfall to sunrise's horizon arrival, plus the addend of the moment of solitude when the world takes its breath, then finally breathes
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When word jumping across the matrix of the poem,
be sure to land slant, as our Emily notes;
experimental poets writing in a world of tilted lines
design experience not as a logical, linear path
but more as a controlled tumbling collapse
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With feathered bristles on a softened brush,
we borrow the ink to paint a scene of an unspoken in-between hush,
unfolding a canvas capturing the quiet moments of us
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For all his flawed parts -
the way he always finds a way to always fall apart -
I find him, a friend, with a gentle loving heart
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Reconcile opposing forces:
the need to be and the need to be alone
both collide within head and heart
revel in the quiet where you feel you belong
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