Tag: poetry
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the roofless refuge
for centuries a thousand lame excuses for war have driven the peaceful indoors love will you meet me in the meadow again we can’t survive the safety anymore
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e m b r a c e
lover we’ve arrived, but i am not your destination you have worlds to see beyond me and you must my prayer: i will be a floating portal moving with you as you go so you’ll be always moving through me never leaving me behind but never breaking from the journey to be with me the…
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watering the empty plant
watering the empty plant it’s still a good idea but let it not be me who lifts the jug
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sanctuary
to build a great temple these days is such a hassle no slave laborers (thank goodness) nor many volunteers the cost both in money and in time is high as heaven and the paperwork, the permits the inspections what a headache! then if somehow one should manage to erect a sacred palace there’s neverending toil just…
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rain envy
i too born of mist long to leap from cloudy comfort and disrobe for the evaporating ocean
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jazz mission
in my heaven the angels are jazz virtuosos they know when to put the horn down
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hati
elephants don’t run away to the circus you are your own kind of wild stampeding into the dungeons of passion where’s the mahout who could match you?
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clarification
honestly i never understood just what you meant when you said “let there be light” was i resisting?