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Tag Archives: resolution
When It Comes
When it comes, the night don’t know no difference: right and wrong and that thin line in between. In the dark, you just watch for the lightning. All the rest? Doesn’t matter what you mean. Simple truths in the shadows … Continue reading
Posted in Songs
Tagged darkness, ignorance, night, resolution, space, truth, unknowing
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New Year’s Eve 2014
It’s not so much the time I think I’ve wasted or even those things I have left undone (those grand majestic dreams you hold onto, beyond their useful life, as could have beens), the words said I would rather had … Continue reading
What Good to Grieve
What good to grieve a faded hour? The sun has long since filled the sky and led to moments come and gone as filled with life as that passed dawn. Besides, to mourn what has now ceased, too long, is … Continue reading
Cast my stars as void of course
Cast my future stars as void of course; reduce to ash these ragged charts and maps, and let the sails take from the restless wind what strength they will. I will not feign I care to know what line the … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged courage, daily poems, destiny, fate, resolution, self-determinism
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Set my stars as void of course
Set my stars as void of course; reduce to ash these charts and maps, and let the sails take from the wind what strength they will. I do not care to know what line the sextant proves, nor where the … Continue reading
Mightier Than the Sword
My pen and paper ‘gainst your sword and shield We both draw blood on the same battlefield It’s a war of ideas, and some of them proud None of them dare speak their motives out loud My own revolution turned … Continue reading
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Tagged battles, communication, conflict, daily poems, negotiation, resolution, war, writing
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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