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Good Morning: gloss (glosa)
You say you’re woke because your eyes
are open and you’re out of bed,
and yet describing what you see, you fail
to see yourself and choose instead
to catalog the failings of the world
that won’t conform to how you feel
and what you really want to see,
since reality has no appeal. Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, awareness, Carl Sanburg, change, daily poems, delusion, glosa, gloss, illusion, poetic forms, wokeness
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The Whole Point: englyn unodle crwca
What’s the point of anything?
Who knows what tomorrow brings?
Can anyone who sings such sad songs
not feel wrong when it’s spring? Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, awareness, daily poems, englyn unodle crwca, hatred, poetic forms, spring, Welsh verse forms
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What Urgency: descort
What’s so urgent
all of a sudden?
It’s not like the world woke up yesterday
as a hot mess,
broken into tiny fractions
by some new denominator.
Where have you been?
Wake up and smell the coffee;
some of us been drinking a pot a day
since Reaganomics. Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, awareness, daily poems, descort, French verse forms, illusion, poetic forms, urgency, woke
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I Woke From What: cyhydedd naw ban
I woke from what the world is wanting:
a dream in which illusion, haunting,
makes promises it is not keeping
and hides its face when I am weeping.
With my eyes closed, my thinking slower,
I’m not immune to that great power
that would enslave me to its choices –
a sleeping puppet, meek and voiceless. Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, action, awakening, awareness, cyhydedd naw ban, daily poems, poetic forms, power, resistance, Welsh verse forms
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The Road to Find Out: cyhydedd hir
When do you find out
what life is about,
without any doubt
of its meaning?
How does it appear,
when you see it clear
and without fear
intervening? Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, awakening, awareness, conflict, cyhydedd hir, poetic forms, unknowing, Welsh verse forms, wisdom
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Spare Change: curtal sonnet
When you begin to want to make a change,
you may have no idea how to start.
In fact, your mind may feel lost and confused;
your friends may think you weird or just deranged,
and you’ll keep your own counsel, if you’re smart,
to keep yourself from being too abused. Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, ambition, awareness, change, curtal sonnet, dreams, Gerard Manley Hopkins, poetic forms
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How Long Have I Seen: clogyrnach
When did I start see it first-hand,
the sickness creeping on our land?
I can tell you when:
I was maybe ten;
you begin
to understand. Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, awareness, battle, clogyrnach, poetic forms, resist, struggle, Welsh verse forms
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