Poems

Mountains Rise

Mountains riseBefore meI wish I couldRun my hand Across the crest of themAs one caressesA pup’s headNoble and watchfulLined uniquelyWith purposed shapeBeautifully invigoratedYet they are bigAnd I smallIn statureBut not soIn heart and spiritWould I one dayBecome their masterDignified in…

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Blitz

Blitz me bleary-eyedUnnumbered thoughts, encumberedWords washing over downAn ever-moving streamSuccessive excessesRush, a burst breakingSteady in suitScattering light, senseA rained on sopShaken top through Written on a frenzied, rainy December day in Texas. Unfinished, but maybe it’s enough. Ever had this…

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Tracing the Line

At a glance unseenCrystalline tendril Leading up and onStout in swayShining, lightingThe path homeHeaven and earthSpanned somehowBefore very viewEver present lining Daily anew, renewingHope, bright possibilityGift for allConditioned onlyFor the still, slowedWhose way seenAs light anglesAngels upward go This poem…

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Come Anyway

Far from my firstYear yearning, pressingPrepare room, rustleAwake my sleepy soulSnapping to, too lateLagging as one seizedShamed by the frenzyOf a foe’s drubbingBlushed, struck seeingA visage true-shapedSharp similitude staringSullen, mulled over-downI am not readyThere is no roomYet you come, readyNot…

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The Arithmetic of Grace

A shadow at middayAbject terror piercing through crowdsThere’s more than one wayTo feel aloneThe slow, sad acheOf light edging awayLike sand throughThe glass slippingThe corrosive among usImmoralSpecter of self-sufficiencyA rusting pretense separates allMachined downWe don’t touch anymorePassing by, reducedDown in…

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