Faith
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rosette
high above us, the eye of pigmented silica emits diffuse light.
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mosaic
partnersof all kindsjourney with you not at you,not to you,not out of a sense.of.duty. “in it to win it”a clumsy cliché, but apropos. individual experiences;different. sometimes as disparate as two people can be – or four, eight, ten, thirteen. doesn’t meanitcan’t.be.done. together. the shared experience – a complex mosaic all those little pieceseventually come togetherinto…
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broken crutch
Affirmation on the wall ~ “You Got This” ~ three words fix it all.
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no map required?
finding the trailhead ~ halfway through the hike – is hard.
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Social Media Diplomacy
We yell from both sides of the room ~ and only hear what echoes back ~ a world that’s only white or black
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Feeling the Feels
Feelings are foreign to me; at least feelings over which I don’t have some sort of control.
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Correlation?
graphs mean nothing now.
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Sleeper, Awake.
I am currently calling us “Awake Ben” and “Sleeping Ben”, which (because I’m so clever, you know) works on a number of levels, both literally and figuratively.
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defying atrophy
look back at writings / thoughts of yore / and wonder where my / mind went.
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should be sleeping
though I really should be sleeping ~ leaking mind just keeps on seeping
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wonderland
a nice place to visit…
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The Rainbow Sonnets – IV, V, & VI
Then Clarity arrived at once, so Fast / Paint with the Rainbow, Life will come at last.
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gravity
physics’ laws apply / beyond the world / of weight and mass
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Sonnet III – What Was and Ne’er Will Be
the door before me bids me walk on through, but pieces – grief and anger – won’t allow.
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Sonnet II – hope’s lament
I fear that I shall never live to see / a world that’s lived the way her God designed
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catching up
This is how It Is.
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slow dance
she tends with love. dirt-covered hands - still painful – cleansing the insides, to her soul’s very depths, as only fertile soil can.
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Wayfarer
Wayfaring sounds romantic, but wander too long, you may get lost.
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Tattoo
a change on the inside / made outside / more tellable
defying atrophy 