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Rated: 18+ · Book · Emotional · #1926559
A new book to house this year's (and future years) NationalPoetryMonth's daily poems.
I'm writing once again this year. This book is my special event place for thirty special poems.

Here for National Poetry Month in 2018, I'm participating but life has not been kind in the last 15 months, so I'm not always in writing mode.





April 9, 2018 at 6:37am
April 9, 2018 at 6:37am
#932409


this most sincere desire, beyond food
and sleep and companionship, emboldens us

to escape ourselves through the drain holes
somehow bored into our solitude, unknowing

we follow our postures of hope on radio waves
as they travel past the homeless dark side of the sun

into budding moon crescents, and like match
to fire, emblazon our new found twin spirits

the trajectory follows a mischievous voyage
on a magic carpet studded with gold and gems

we wait in asanas, for wandering pain to subside
The Seeker, The Opening, The Dreamer, waiting

for The Individual Explosion to hail the magnitude
of Two Arms Welcoming The Universal Quest

love, like atoms in stellar fusion, paired thus
with a tangy sweetness of belonging, unaware

we balance this unity throughout the dizzying
spin of constellations lighting distant planets

alive, each of us a star with a billion light years
mapped into the past/present/future continuum

we do not feel the pulse of the in-betweenness
the heartbeat of up versus down that levitates

to bypass our thoughts, images and a preference
for blues or yellows and coerce us

into spider-web memories floating through
the growing pains of becoming nuanced

with binary yes/no responses, not related
to brine-imbued summer skies and winter hearths

instead, we weave great tapestries of breath
that grow as thick and strong as forests

pungent sanctuaries to promote life abundance
until a single star dies and surprised, we mourn

something that unglues a few of our atoms
repositioned like pink glares fade from sunset

we morph into books of poems where life and death play
out romance better than each scene from Romeo and Juliet

starcrossed, they, our childhood tin soldiers, learned
the prematurity of the big bang’s afterlife



qasida #4: posing for photographs
[2018.8.4…c]




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