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I Want to Tell You Something
I want to tell you something in a few short locking lines; you may find the concept shocking, or reject it, but that’s fine. You may not think it a poem, for it doesn’t show a thing; it does not … Continue reading
An End to Parables
I’ve spent a life in parables, disguising my ideas in costumes and strange metaphors deliberately unclear and so perhaps convinced the world that I’m a harmless quack, imagining just chimeras with no spine in their backs. But recently, while looking … Continue reading
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Tagged communication, conversations, misunderstanding, parables, understanding
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On Dialogue with Self
When does a dialogue with self cease being a monologue? At what precise moment does the epiphany conceived of self-deliberation end its foolish premeditation on some inner change of being and address itself to the self in others, recognizing in … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations
Tagged communication, conversations, dialogue, identity, monologue, self-exploration
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No Small Talk Left
It takes perhaps at most an entire day depending on the company and scene, but at some point there’s nothing left to say and words become superfluous, obscene. It’s not because the topics have run dry, or even that some … Continue reading
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Tagged conversations, discomfort, relationships, similarities, talking
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Dathy Pahka and the Couscous Bauble
We sit in circles, crop circles, like silver-clad heroes at Arthur’s table, dark knights of the soul of verse, our words colliding in the jousts of wit and criticism. Is it the flame that draws us moths to it, and … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations, Poems, Statements
Tagged cliques, conversations, criticism, Dorothy Parker, happiness, meaning, purpose, self-importance
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Building Around a Thing
“I know it when I see it,” said the man who vainly tried conveying truth to friends. “When it is absent, the space that it leaves unfilled describes it clearly, end to end; and though there are no words to … Continue reading
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Tagged beauty, Buckminister Fuller, communication, conversations, failure, misinterpretation, truth
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The Shallow Water
a poem in blank verse Again, the conversation turned to fate; and as the group was interested, to chance, the lines of battle drawn between the ones who thought the world predestined yet misshaped and those who found perfection or … Continue reading
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Tagged blank verse, conversations, daily poems, destiny, fate, foolishness, plans, poetic forms
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