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The Wider, More Ignorant World
Your words can live forever cast out in the virtual plane. They truly are immortal now, and the internet’s to blame. No matter your intentions or the crowd you thought to reach, your thoughts will be interpreted and stretched until … Continue reading
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Tagged ignorance, intentions, Internet, opinion, public opinion, social media
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Hallows 2005
Tonight the veil between the worlds wears thin and feels as sheer as gossamer. To touch its fabric is to let the shadows in, to find one’s means of light only a crutch that guides us, just a mere footstep … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Halloween, illusions, intentions, paganism, power, ritual, Samhain
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The Eyes
Watch the eyes: they reflect scars that long since faded from the flesh still mark the hard survivor’s face with phantom traces, and though less pronounced with each new moment’s span can in some lights, and moods, reveal the inner … Continue reading
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Tagged daily poems, enemies, eyes, intentions, paranoia, spies, subconscious, the soul
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With what will you refill the well
With what will you refill the well once there is nothing left to seep through the rough stones and hardened clay and they are dry and filmed with dust? And the great thirst that must be slaked else inspiration, too, … Continue reading
Between Something Worth Saying and a Voice to Say It With
One of the biggest personal challenges I face as a poet is striking a balance between form and function, or between pose and purpose. What I mean by this is that as an artist progresses in their technical ability, in … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations
Tagged destinations, education, intentions, poetry, purpose, responsibility, teaching, writing
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Toward More Colorful Newspeak
If you’ve been reading this blog, you’re aware that I am in the process of organizing my poetry using del.icio.us keyword tags. I’m only about a tenth of the way through all the poems in this journal, and already I’m … Continue reading
Posted in Words
Tagged Antoine Saint-Exupery, goals, intentions, language, meaning, Newspeak, tagging, tags
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