If I reflected
I could trace the path I walked
But I wonder how I got where I am How I did so with her by my side
The singular beauty of her
Both within and without
I could find the answer
But at times it’s better to live a life without mirrors
For to be #mystified is good for the soul
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The plane descended,
#pale clouds catching attention.
The past held above;
The future waiting below
That eternal, tranquil gray.
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I found a calm once
Within whispered wind
Under a gray sky
The summer #thrum of the village
Forgotten mine as other lives were lived
In knee-deep shallows,
Stood silent; #soothed still -
As God spoke for but a moment
And I, in memory, listened hereafter.
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Despite your clear eyes
The world can still #obfuscate
And you’ll never know
What it was to be so sure
That your senses were with you
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#hopemaybedim #butadimlightisstillalight
Thinking back on better times and rewatched what is possibly one of my absolute favorite things I’ve ever made (in this case shot, edited, produced). Improvised dance featuring the extremely talented Hanna Bass. If this was left as my mark on the world, I would be happy: youtu.be/vNrd-EJk4CQ?...
I thought of myself
As one never to #quiver;
To wax and not #wane.
Yet this protection remains
Still fearfully unproven.
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A night on the #cusp
Meaning of life within grasp!
.
..
…
Oops, I fell asleep.
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So slight a #drizzle
Can cause the soul to #unmoor
And drift out alone;
We wish away waves, to be
Back in the peaceful harbor.
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It was always there
That sweet, nostalgic future
Just over the hill
Always right around the #bend
Forever just beyond reach.
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There is a moment -
For the sand in the hourglass
For the thread in the #loom -
Where it stands apart from the rest;
Forever orbiting the minute
As worlds and time itself hinge in an epoch’s breath.
The grain rejoins the sand, unaware that, for a time, it was the center of all things.
#vss365
We long for bunny
But #veering life’s moguls is
A Black-Diamond Slope
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@blsamaddar.bsky.social you’ve got it :)
A #dapple of sun
And the #murmur of the creek.
Give me this peace.
From the shout of modern life,
Give nature’s gentle progress.
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May your weekend be just like Waffles: Feet on the floor and ready to party; your butt in bed, hoping your plans cancel.
#dogsofbluesky #dog #waffles #haveagreatweekend
I wish it were joy
Holding still my feet in #awe
Not pained remembrance.
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You may be called “tender” when wronged.
Slow cooked inside, yet left to cool down.
But I prefer to think of it more as a #sear
Burnt harsh on the out; forever raw within.
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I beg the floods
to stop
from coming.
I try to
pray it all
away.
But it’s in me,
it’s blowing
through me—
I am its god,
and I am
the village
annihilated.
#Poetry #Poem
#BlueskyPoetry
Breathing hard after the 20-mile chase, the red & blue lights - combined with the metallic click of the handcuffs around his wrists - finally clued him in that maybe…just maybe…he had misunderstood when he heard someone say, “ #slapdash” at the neighbor’s barbecue.
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The adult question:
“Was I ever cool? Or just
A #clueless #oddball?”
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“This hoity-toity rigmarole is nothing but #balderdash to the hoi polloi!” He couldn’t remember how he landed the gig, but the confused faces of the onlookers proved he was doing a good job. Truly, being paid by the ostentation was a lucrative business.
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How firm was the #resolution when the sunrise of a year already felt likes the sunset?
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#abstract time approached
Shape revealed near the present
Is seen geometric grief?
Or a frame of hope?
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I fear losing #delight in the future with the aging cynicism of each passing year. But the hope is there - small, struggling - but still an ember held, ready for stoking.
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I #regret the year. Not an action, but lament that it happened - hurt and heartache of the normal passage of time in a sea of lost justice, efforts to correct the tide merely drops of meager rain. I regret I couldn’t do more. I regret what I could wasn’t enough.
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“ #chivalry & White-Knighting is a bit like the difference between knowledge & wisdom: one needs just holding a door or helping one over a puddle; the other insists on a Kool-aid burst through a wall or becoming a human raft to cross the wide Missouri.”
He had never been good at metaphors.
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The years pass
And with each going
I can see
The screen’s false light
Shining bright to distract
From the #aphotic void behind it
The vaunted font of knowledge
Dried by a cynical desert
And disguised as a desperate oasis.
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My Late-In-Life Change:
Going from “Joie de Vivre”
To “Suave de Vivre”
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In a narrow hallway
Under blue light
Staring at the writing on the wall
A thousand quotes from ghosts of a hundred shows
Spaces bare where I could have laid mine down but didn’t
Is now the time?
Each step out the door is the #last to make that mark
The last, until the next moment comes.
#vss365
Filling my time in
This rented geography
‘Fore the lease is up
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There is a strange, beautiful connection to be found in a subway’s #exhausted collective, an understanding where words are unnecessary but the meaning clearly known; that though we may never meet again, still we’re all in this together.
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