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What If and the Temptations
WHAT IF: Money actually grew on trees? You actually had more than one once-in-a-lifetime opportunity? Your face actually stayed in the guise of some hideous scowl you made when you were six? Things were easier done than said? What was … Continue reading
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Tagged awareness, gravity, illusions, pointlessness, potential, temptation
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Night Rain: a cywydd deuair fyrion
Awake by chance, I watched a flicker in the dark clouds growing quicker. Drawn, I watched this fleeting wonder: the dull sound of distant thunder; the dreamlike build of slow suspense in too calm air still warm and dense; the … Continue reading
Posted in Lines
Tagged awareness, cywydd deuair fyrion, daily poems, poetic forms, storms, weather, Welsh verse forms
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Beyond the Boundary
Of all the little things that seem to matter, and petty squabbles that divide our time in episodes of silence between chatter and spaces marking off what’s left behind, the biggest part of what remains unspoken is that which each … Continue reading
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Tagged awareness, boundaries, daily poems, division, enlightenment, perceptions, sonnet
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There Is No Mundane
The clock will stop that human hands must wind; its mechanized contrivances will fail, and in those precious seconds between time the boundary between the worlds is frail. On one side, secret lands where shadows pale; and on the other, … Continue reading
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Tagged awareness, consciousness, daily poems, magic, mundane, poetry by request, power, sonnet, streams, wholeness
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Insomnia
at one a.m., when sleep won’t come and my thoughts ramble, loose in my head like marbles in a tin can, the night air still oppressive and thick under the carport where my cigarettes call out their siren’s song, silence … Continue reading