Sometimes the only strength we have is to get up and keep going
Languishing in limbo we see no way out
But a comet is coming
It’s far away
And it feels like it’s not coming fast enough
But it’s on its way
Your star is coming
It’s coming as fast as it can
poetry
Haunted blue skies
Dancing the periphery
Stomp, step
Words spoken like settling mist
Blanketed, kept safe
The storm awoke, embrace
Keen voices rise and fall
Remembrances suffuse the all
This hope breaks the dark dawn
But I’ll hold you close
Soft warmth, beating heart
Butterfly lips, and truths
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What a step on the road may herald
What words do I speak when all words turn about and about to face towards you
like power lines running beneath the surface carrying me forwards
Dying on the vine for the sound of a voice
But choose and choose again,
You are no passing indulgence or forward desire but vital to all
Just a pill and a show and a soul laid bare
Found alive, at the start, at the end
Of long journeys beginning
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Enter the fray
I’m having this problem where I can’t write because I’m happy. An envious problem to have but it makes all this noise just a bit harder to pull to signifier. Because the well of black feeling erases under the thought of you. And plans for the long term slam into place like bank vaults but it’ll be a minute before they’ll open. No swift thing, no arrow, no soon over thing. Instead a juggernaut just getting started, focused on an us. But still, my words spill out, only into your ears and not for the wide. I’d sing you aloud and scream to the sky. Reminding the deep blue of times gone by when they were dust and stars together and they were being fed up with the dawn. We are bound and bound by choose and choice and the hard truth a hand in hand, facing a future side by side
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Arpeggios string by string
The notes wash over
This collection of sounds
Becoming music
Almost by chance
Almost
This series of steps
This waiting
This finding
This being
This burning
Soft consonants and sonorous tone
Set me aflame
Choice by choice
Her and her and her
Set us free
Fly together
Sweet song
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The unbearable weight of knowing
This calm after storm
Broken response leads to feast of life
Halted for empty
A frenzy of connection
A fantasy
This shifting earth falls away
The smell of death
On swift ozone wings
The shift begs permission
Awaits the will to act
Unfettered
Fear and hopeless
Wage war in the heart
Last fade before
Snuffed light
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A blade needs a battle
I’m a prize fighter bent on destruction
Last prize in a fight I’ve been fighting my whole life
Fight for a soul to be happy
But not my own
That may be beyond my power
But this I can do
Always in your corner
Looking for your joy
Might not be with me
But it doesn’t matter
Some wars must be fought
For the ones in our hearts
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Shift light explodes through the cracks
This is a broken world
But you are not broken
This is a broken world
But you are not broken
This
Is
A
Broken
World
But you are not broken
This is a broken world
But you
Are not
Broken
This is a broken world
But
You are
Not broken
This is a broken
World
But
You
Are
Not
Broken
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The corvid and the dove
My heart soars
Crafting clouds to carry word
Of my deeds
Deep below my mind prepares the way
A place
A home
A sanctuary
What is possible
When dream is made manifest
Time unlocks all
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Pilgrimage
Plans bury themselves like roots deep in my bones
Words fragment on my tongue and fingertips
Unwritten
Unsaid
Each slow turn of the wheel
Marking passage to the possible
All my hopes burn like wildfire
Unchecked in a mind enveloped in love
I wait as one who having embarked on a long journey
sees the city of his heart on the horizon
And approaches
Steady
Knowing full well
And with light heart
That arrival means the beginning
Of our journey together
Pelgris 