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Way of Life

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Sunset to
Sunrise

Wrapping up night

Unfolding day

I don’t help

At all

I relax

The whole way

Poetry Pharmacy

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Your own personal fairy dust

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This moment touches you

Oh, we’re here, here, here

Joy and you hold hands just then

To breathe,

the atom splits again

Again, again, again

Self-Potrait

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Each thing I do
Gets done in me
What I make up
It marks me up
Each choice I make
Is colored paint
My palette is my day
Skillfuly blended
Chosen colors
Artfully painted
Or just mixed up
I make me
Anyway

Drink

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The elixir of fortune
The coffee of fate
Whiskey of accident
Territory of your story
Drink it now or wait

Ordinary

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Ordinary breath
Ordinary tears
Ordinary almost everything
Where extraordinary veers

A Person

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Use up your luck
Engaging no stress
Surrounded by controversy
Conquer the labels
Be a thing

Tools

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Sometimes Doubt
A useful tool
Like pliars
A hammer
To use

Context

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When I slur
Your name
Baby
It could mean
Anything
Baby

Rhythmic

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These pulses charm
My body like a snake
The music’s in control
Dancing is my fate

Glitter

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Map my whole world in glitter
It’s days of bright eyes seeing
The rising heat of every heart
Those crashing waves of brains atwitter

Entitled

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I’m here
So do I squat
In this body?
Or what?

Bubbles

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Entering the current
Slipping into being
Surrendering to darkness
Fin instead of wing
Liquid silver flying
Seriousness washed in dream

Content

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Lush and lukewarm
A cheap hotel room
Hours shuffle along
A familiar radio song

Big Change

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Tremble in the chill
For a kiss
At a birth or
Overcome with fear

Hand Crafted Moment

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Hands recognize
Eyes forbid
Feelings consent
Crafting your sighs

Belonging

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Play with me
In this belonging dream
Were no one’s actually free
Weather you flow or resist
The sweetest meaning ripens
In the plot twist

Scent

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Howling
I follow the scent
My dream
Hunting killing sharing
Becoming a complex being

Game

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Filter out each being
Select wee dabs of each
Set strict limits
Adjust needs
See how far you reach

Simple

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Simple
Complex
Ravenous
Satisfied
Berated
Unfathomable
Gotten
Glorified

To Lose

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Worlds get built
Off devastation
Sweet lives get spun
From loss
I find the best
Part of a story
To win when
It’s a toss

Plans

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When I planned
My life adventure
Did I do it right?
Was all this heck
Weaved in on purpose
Or was this
An oversight?

Successful

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Ride a lifetime
You designed
Twisted terrifying
Till redefined

Exposure

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Exposure to this thing
The sun the air
We breath
The feeling of baking cookies
Wiff of rotting flesh
Touches this eternity

That Thing

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Is the thing
That thing
That manages
The paths of stars
Every baby being made
The weather currents
Each flower blooming
Ever overworked?

The Same

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Where do
Life’s capable
And my
Capable
Converge?

Never Boring

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Uneven emotions
Crookedly cut
Uneven days
My life has whipped up

Tossed

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My specific
Will to be
To feel alive
With dignity
In this ocean
Storm and calm
Afraid to die
Or live to long

Float

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The Way
The Tao
The way
To float
With the current
To devote
Peace’ attention
To allow
Trouble and currents
To pass somehow

Tempted

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Tempted
To go too fast
Or not go on
Might go astray
And not get done
Tempted to be
Perhaps to not
I used to care
I used to care
A lot

Fullness of Life

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The flavor
In my mind
Pungent sweet
Divine

Anticipation

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The
Expectation of good
Trusting Life to deliver
More than just food
Joy in a shiver

Aromatic

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A whiff
Of old leather
Takes me there
Free travel by
smell

Eye of the Beholder

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Taste?
Or?
Ostentatious?

 

Magic Foot Forward

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The whimsical
The mystical
The exceptional
Me
Take turns living
Life with the other
Three

Filthy

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Filthy rich
Filthy poor
Filthy mind
Filthy floor
Filthy wonderful
Filthy muddy shoes
Every filthy little heart
Full of filthy good
Too

To Fish

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Fishing through days
For ideas to breed
That open my eyes
To my own lies
Letting Life grow
So I come to know
To live different ways
A new creed

Relish

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Relish
Twirl
Stand up
Rule
The minute
This moment
Embellish

 

Hyperbole

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The world
A Little
hyperbole
All fitted up
Strung
Unfathomable

Worlds Without End

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Bridge your heart
And mind
Playing to unwind
Then make the art
That brakes apart
The Universe defined

Together

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Banned
From a boredom
Of perfection
Human
Figuring it out
Being
An exception

Under the Pale Sun

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Ancient
Winds
Blowing
Storms
Back
Then
The same
Breeze
On my face
Again

Dark Days

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Exploring
Underground
Dark
Unquestioned
Mysterious
Profound

Waiting

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For
This funk
To pass
For life
to spring
For worlds
To mass

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Waves

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Sudden
Urgent
Unfurl
Wrapped
Twisted
Round
My mind
Pole

A Moment

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Daring
Wonder
Notice
Careing

Breakthrough

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If I were me
If I were you
I am both
Who are you?

Personhood

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The value
Of me?
Wait
Let me see
Is it steady
Or based
On
Meritocracy?

The World

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A lab
A test
Of what’s
Ineffable
Test results
For courage
A blood test
For serenity

Father Sky

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Generous sky

Wind

Water

Sunshine

A place

To dream

To fly

Snap

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Snap your fingers
Peas don’t snap
Snap a bra
Snapshot that
Oh snap

Snap a snap
A wet curchief
Snap a carrot
A leg like that
Oh Snap!

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42 Yous and Mes

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The
Many Yous
For
The
Many mes
Lots
of
Mes
for Yous

42

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becouse we are
part human
part god
part animal
part story
people