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9 February 2021 by
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Thinking Out Loud
Connections I stood in the rain and let it cleanse meThe rain matched my moodThe rain was my mood I am the rain The sky’s tears were from my soulRunning down the cheeks of the worldfalling onto my upturned face I am at one I tasted my tears and knew themI saw my wounds and […]
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8 February 2021 by
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Thinking Out Loud
I AM Depleted & Increased Diminished & Augmented Declined & Approved Discarded & Cherished Suppressed & Remembered Neglected & Discussed Ignored & Compared Hidden & Discovered Disregarded & Revered Forgotten & Recalled Confused & Comforted Wounded & Healed Darkness & Light Choose your […]
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4 February 2021 by
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Thinking Out Loud
Crumpled wrappers discarded in the gutterEvidence of a use no longer required A purpose served A mission completed A moment of significance passed Cast away the winter coatneed dissipated in this godforsaken heat I need you no longer Uncertain ground feels less solid beneathThe what was declared with an immediate whenThe where was defined as […]
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29 January 2021 by
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YOU ARE Words can hammer a blow to the heartWords can cut deeper than a steel bladeWords can indiscriminately maim and disfigureWords can create wounds that do not heal In the living of your life, remember, your words are weapons that can… Obliterate hope Decimate possibility Destroy perceptions Massacre dreams Annihilate self-worth Butcher prospects Execute […]
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24 January 2021 by
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Thinking Out Loud
She is… Heaven sent & earth boundEthereality in solid formPresent & distant simultaneouslyFamiliar & unknowable Like a scent on the breeze Planted & vaporousEphemeral & enduringTransient & everlastingEpisodic & perpetual Like a dream in the soul Seductive & distantIrresistible & resistibleTimely & out of timeKnowing & silent Unutterably elusive & inexpressibly definite Time holds no […]
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21 January 2021 by
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Thinking Out Loud
Then What? Diamonds fade over eonsTheir value reflecting their scarcity Then what value desire? Manuscripts perish in the sunlightTheir words lost for all time Then what value words? Dreams can dissipate with wakingLosing their substance through forgetfulness Then what value imagination? Honesty can be hard to find in dark timesSolitude may slip into loneliness Then […]
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15 January 2021 by
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Thinking Out Loud
Stumble Ruptured lines of communicationOpposing views of the factsPsychological debate of motivationDisputed views of the past The few from the many quite distinctThe many form another dimensionThe discussion of choice over instinctThe result being an internal tension The weightlessness of joy has departedThe heaviness of sorrow takes its placeThe comfort of home soon departedThe agony […]
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11 January 2021 by
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Thinking Out Loud
Limbo We speak in the common parlance of the veilWhere the skin is thin between the worlds We hear it on the breeze We glimpse it in the shadows We feel it in our bones Twilight Half-Light Evening Gloom Nightfall Sundown We have built many words into our language to describe the […]
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8 January 2021 by
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Thinking Out Loud
Out of placeDiscordant timingDissonance with mostCrowds are not for me Solitude is a preferenceA cast of two my ideal playSo much to say to the right onesSo little to say to the rest Platitudes pass for conversationForgettable snippets of speechNo interest in pointless small talkFutile meanderings of wasted breath The feeling of being alone is […]
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5 January 2021 by
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Thinking Out Loud
Strange Shorelines Torrents flow and carve through stoneCreating valleys that shape our worldTsunamis’ of potential are waiting to crest,in the waves of emotion, I swim in Treading water is not my chosen styleBut I feel as if I have been holding my breathThe undercurrents have had me in some troubleBut the waters clearing, as the […]
